They wanted to blame the guards for the death of King Duncan. Lady Macbeth tells her husband that she can not kill him cause he reminds her of her daddy. She convinces him to kill King Duncan. The only reason Lady Macbeth wants him to kill King Duncan is so Macbeth can become King . Once King Duncan was killed Macbeth killed the guards because he was scared.
He wants to solidify his power so he kills Banquo and attempts to kill Banquo's son Fleance, but fails. Macbeth starts to feel guilty and sees Banquo's ghost. Soon the witches appear again telling Macbeth to beware Macduff, no man born of a woman shall harm Macbeth, and fear not till Birnam Wood comes to Dunsanine. Macbeth follows the witches warning and kills Macduff's family, but Macduff is not around. He’s actually in England trying to convince Malcolm, Duncan's son, to return and kill Macbeth.
When people find out that the king is murdered they accuse the guards. For this reason, Macbeth kills the guards because he is afraid that they would deny killing King Duncan. As Macbeth is crowned king, Banquo starts to suspect that Macbeth cheated to earn his title. When Macbeth knows that Banquo suspects him, he hires murderers to kill him and his son, Fleance. Not only was he terrified that Banquo would expose him, but he was afraid that Banquo’s line would all become kings in the future, as according to the witches’ prophecies.
When it’s finally time to take action, Macbeth is frightened. He is at a dinner with King Duncan. When the dinner is finished, he drunkens the guards so that he can go and commit the murder. “ Clean my hand? no this my hand will rather/ The multitudinous of the seas.”(2.2 60-61) Of course, there is one slight malfunction.
Once he was crowned King, he became paranoid and ceased trusting anyone which had led him to killing several other lives. His paranoia was ambushed by his fear of losing the throne. Macbeth “fears in Banquo” for multiple reasons; he is naturally more superior, he had heard the prophecy and his sons were said to be Kings. In his paranoia, he sends murderers to kill Banquo and his son, Fleance. Furthermore, Banquo was murdered under Macbeth’s commands.
Who do you trust, your king or your conscious? Many characters in Macbeth had to make this very choice as there kingdom was slowly deteriorating because of a tyrant of a king. Macbeth written by William Shakespeare is the story of a brave honourable soldier who ruins his life due to his own greed for power, respect and wealth. This play begins with three witches who inform Macbeth that he will become king. It is clear to all readers that Macbeth is not simply going to wait for these prophecies to come true, after the previous king Duncan is murdered.
Long live the King!(7/8). When Macbeth killed the king people were in shocked because the old king was dead. In the song they weren’t really in favor of the king being dead and they said “Long live the king”(8). Macbeth wanted to take the throne and he killed the king with a dagger. After he killed the king he drove himself insane “People couldn't believe what I’d become”(24).
Macbeth got an assassin to kill Banquo and his son. The murderer killed Banquo but in the process blew out a torch giving Fleance the opportunity to escape. Macbeth is informed about what happened and is infuriated. Macbeth goes to his guests and suddenly see Banquo’s ghost sitting in the chair which horrifies Macbeth. He starts to communicate with Banquo’s ghost who he can only see.
Laertes and Claudius had a plan of revenge to go after Hamlet for causing Laertes’ father death. At the end of the play while Laertes and Hamlet were fencing, Gertrude drank the poison which was suppose to be for Hamlet because it was part of Laertes and Claudius’ plan. Laertes got stabbed by Hamlet with the poison sword and Hamlet got stabbed as well but made sure he killed Claudius before dying. At the end everyone ended up dying just because plans of revenge did not turn out like they wanted. Other people suffered because of other people’s faults and mistakes.
Though Hamlet certainly seems mad, he does not seem to love Ophelia. Instead, he orders her to enter a nunnery and declares that he wishes to ban marriages. A group of traveling actors comes to Elsinore, and Hamlet decides to test his uncle’s guilt by having the players perform a scene closely resembling his uncle murdering his father. If Claudius is guilty, he will surely react. When the moment of the murder arrives in the theater,