Who Was To Blame For Shakespeare's Death In Macbeth

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The true hand of the death and who's at fault to send such a king down. At the death of the King Duncan making the man named Macbeth the throne. However the death was a life cut shorter than naturally intended. At the silver seductive tongue of Macbeth’s wife has him kill the king over night. Framing others after the deed was done to protect themselves from blame of the treason of such act. Ideas of the deathly hands being not the same but an act to please another named Lady Macbeth. The idea of an act of treason was not who acted to the killing of the king Duncan, the hands sent such a man to his early grave. From the words of shakespeare, “To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly” (1.5.5). The letter of Macbeth giving the thoughts of him wanting the king's death to come at its time as intended, however the lady macbeth has other plans. “O, never Shall sun that morrow see! Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, …show more content…

Look like the' innocent flower,But be the serpent under ’t” (1.5.53). Thoughts of the early death of the king and the betrayal being not macbeth but the Lady Macbeth. Thoughts given to Macbeth to kill and to blame for the fall of his own throne. Motivation to do such deed, as to end another man for just the power of a falling nation, for the power of a king let alone queen. “They met me in the day of success, and I have learned by the perfectest report they have more in them than mortal knowledge. ”(1.5.1). The drive to want more power by the fortune of tomorrow's promises.”A prosperous gentleman, and to be king Stands not within the prospect of

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