Who Is To Blame In Macbeth Essay

In Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Macbeth three witches prophesied that Macbeth would be king. Doing what anyone else would do, he told his wife and she brewed up this plan to murder the king. The king would be staying at the Macbeth’s castle, Inverness for a party. At first Macbeth was against the plan but Lady Macbeth was not backing down and talked him into it. “Macbeth talks himself into a kind of thoughtful stupor as he tries to work out the situation for himself. In the following scene, Lady Macbeth will emerge and drive the hesitant Macbeth to act; she is the will propelling his achievements. Once Lady Macbeth hears of the witches’ prophecy, Duncan’s life is doomed.”( Shakespeare A 1, 1–4) Her plan was well thought out and she could not wait. He patience overpowered her excitement though as she waited for him to fall fast asleep. Soon after he was asleep she had drugged the guards and Shoved Macbeth in towards the kings resting area. Macbeth was
When Macbeth walked into that room and stabbed the king, he would be charged with first degree murder because he was royalty. Macbeth would be trialed for death penalty most likely due to such a cold blooded kill. Although there is a chance that since Macbeth is very high up in society that someone would cover for him or he wouldn’t even be trialed. It’s just like how we could be caught with drugs and be thrown in prison for quite a while but if beyonce was caught with drugs, she would get praised for it. Who you are effects how much trouble you can get in. Now for Lady Macbeth she would get charged for hiding Macbeth and helping with planning for the murder. She could say that her mind was not at the right state and she would end up in a mental hospital but still with charges. All in all Macbeth is a fantastic story but you should never kill someone of the higher