Examples Of Who Is To Blame For King's Death In Macbeth

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A commonly asked question from people who have read Macbeth is “Who is more at fault for the murder of King Duncan? Lady Macbeth or Macbeth himself?” There are many arguments for each side explaining who could be more at fault for the King’s murder. Personally, from the evidence of the book I believe that Lady Macbeth is more responsible for the king’s death. Throughout the book there are numerous examples showing how she is more at fault for this. In Macbeth by William Shakespeare Lady Macbeth not only talks her husband into reluctantly killing the king, she turned killing the King into a matter of Macbeth being a true man, and she felt no remorse after the King’s death while Macbeth felt awful about the situation and he felt very disloyal to the King. …show more content…

However, Lady Macbeth was in complete support of the murder of King Duncan. She talked her husband into killing the King even though he was hesitant about the idea. “Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valor of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round, which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem to have thee crowned withal.”(Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 15-20) Without Lady Macbeth, Macbeth would have never been pressured into killing the King and the King would have probably lived.
Lady Macbeth challenged Macbeth’s manliness in order to convince him to murder the King. “Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness, To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great.” (Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 3-5). Lady Macbeth is telling Macbeth that he is too nice and that although he could manage the Kings position he doesn’t have a mean streak in his body and that there is no way that he will step up and follow through with the killing of Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is very manipulative in her ways and how she convinces Macbeth to kill

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