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Macbeth Analysis
After reading The Tragedy of Macbeth, there’s a lot I can say about this story. This story was filled with so much death! Death! Death! And even more Death! This story was like a roller coaster, it starts off as okay, then it’s downhill from there. I honestly have to say the style of this story had my confused it was making my brain hurt, but along the way I started to get a better understanding of the story and brain started to hurt a little less. Along the way, many questions started to circulate, I started to think how manipulative Lady Macbeth was! For example, Lady Macbeth was questioning Macbeth manhood just because he didn’t want to kill the king, how dirty is she! She had the audacity to convince Macbeth to kill King Duncan, just because …show more content…
After the murder, Macbeth started feeling guilty for the murder of the King Duncan. Banquo started to get suspicious and started to question if Macbeth was behind the murder, Macbeth saw Banquo as a “threat” so Macbeth had to kill him too. “Prithee, see there! Behold! Look! Lo! How say you?
Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too. If charnel houses and our graves must send Those that we bury back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites.” This is when Macbeth started feeling guilty, he started to hallucinate, he started to see Banquo's ghost in his throne. Macbeth was starting to go crazy, he was worried that his past would eventually catch up with him. He didn’t care that he was killing people, but has the nerve to feel guilty about it!?
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!—One, two. Why, then, ’tis time to do ’t. Hell is murky!—Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?—Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him” .Even Lady Macbeth was starting to go crazy, she started to hallucinate, she was complaining about blood spots on her hand when nothing was there. Her hallucination started to get worse, we technically don’t know why Lady Macbeth killed herself, but if I have to say, it was probably all the guilt she
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Because that’s what you are now. Look, here I have Macbeth’s cursed head. We are free from his tyranny. I see that you have the kingdom’s noblemen around you, and they’re thinking the same thing as me. I want them to join me in this loud cheer, Hail, King of Scotland!” When Macduff fled England, leaving his wife and children behind, Macbeth ordered his soldiers to kill Macduff's family, what a psychopath! After the death of Macduff's family, Macduff had enough! Macbeth had gone to far, somebody was going to pay for Macbeth rampage! After a brawl between Macbeth and Macduff, sadly Macbeth head was cut off and shoved onto a stick and showed it to the cheering crowd. The terror of Macbeth has came to the end, and Macbeth was finally caught up to

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