Macbeth” is a tragedy written by Shakespeare. The story is played somewhere between 1600 and was performed for King James 1.It is a tragedy about a man’s fall. It could be suggested that macbeth is responsible for the death of king Duncan. According to my point of view, Macbeth didn’t killed Duncan , banquo and macduff 's family because he wanted to be evil because he met the witches .He did everything because of ambition, jealousy , lust for power and because he was power hungry from the beginning. Macbeth made the choices by his own,he wasn’t forced or fated to make any of the choices he made. He killed King Duncan and took the scottish throne for himself. He was so power-hungry that he also wanted to kill Duncan’s son but they ran away and he was proposed as the king. He blamed two…show more content…
Macbeth was always power-hungry as soon as he found out that he can kill Duncan , his first thoughts about it was “My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man ,That function is smother 'd in surmise, and nothing is but what is not.” Macbeth’s first thought after realising that he can be a king was to murder Duncan, That indicates that Macbeth always wanted to kill King Duncan to take the throne and when Lady macbeth got the letter from his husband explaining that the witches prophesied him saying that he can be a king the first thing that came in her mind was to kill Duncan and take over. She also talks about Macbeth always wanted to do it but he isn’t man enough to do this task “ Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be ,What thou art promised. 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,Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it.” Also concludes that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth always wanted to kill King Duncan from the very past and that when they got to know that they can be the king and queen they were ready and prepared to kill Duncan
He was told by the witches he was going to die by a man who goes by the name of macduff. then have a brutal fight towards the end and macbeth gets beheaded.
The name Macbeth is most famously associated with the Shakespearean play. Known to a lesser extent is the true Macbeth, a Scottish king who ruled from 1040 until his death in 1057. In the tragedy, Macbeth is portrayed as a killer who murdered to become and stay the king of Scotland. He was married to a manipulative and overly ambitious woman. People unfamiliar with the real Macbeth often question how much of William Shakespeare’s play was a true reflection of the history of the man, and how much was a work of fiction written for entertainment purposes. In reality, Macbeth the man was much different from the fictional king.
Another difference between the play and the actual history is how Duncan died and Macbeth became king. In Macbeth, Duncan was repeatedly stabbed to death. In reality, Duncan died by Macbeth’s hand during battle and possibly also with the help of Thorfinn, his cousin. The annals of Tigernach state that Duncan was “slain by his subjects.” It is believed that Macbeth was able to overthrow and succeed Duncan because of the disillusionment of his people who backed Macbeth.
Macbeth’s real wife was a woman named Gruoch, whose lineage is disputed. She was, however, the widow of a man named Gillacomgain, whom either Macbeth or his people had previously killed. Her marriage to Macbeth was in all likelihood motivated by politics, a move intended to create peace between rival clans.
Boerce’s depiction of her was likely to be inferred from the animosity she might have felt toward Macbeth as a result of the death of her husband. Furthermore, there have been stories that suggest she conspired to kill her own husband so that she could marry Macbeth and place Lulach, her son, in Macbeth’s place after he died. There, however is no real evidence to support this theory.
Macbeth’s death in the play differs from Macbeth’s actual death in several ways. In reality, Malcolm had fled to England after the murder of his father and had become Edward the Confessor’s protegé. Edward sent Malcolm and Earl Siward back to Scotland to take the throne from Macbeth. It was Edward’s intention that Malcolm become the new, client King of Scots. Although they met in battle, Macbeth still lived, and the battle is thought to have come to a stalemate with no clear victor.
In August 1057, the two eventually met again in battle in Lumphanan. It is here that Macbeth was gravely injured by Malcolm and, as a result, died on August 15, 1057. He was succeeded by his stepson Lulach, who was murdered by Malcolm less than a year later.
three witches that the descendants of Banquo would rule what is implied to be a combined England, Scotland and Ireland while Macbeth’s royal line ends.
In Macbeth, Shakespeare writes about three witches who deliver prophecies to Macbeth. In reality, there were no witches, prophecies, or proof that Macbeth delved into the supernatural or the occult. Some, however, believe that his funding of the monastery on Loch Leven might have been a sign that he believed in ghost prophecies. Shakespeare’s addition of the occult into Macbeth was influenced by the works of Andrew de Wyntoun. It was Wyntoun’s stories of the “weird sisters” in Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland that are believed to have inspired the inclusion of the witches in his play. In fact, Shakespeare refers to the witches as the weird sisters.
They are more closely related to prophetic Norse women than they are to anything Celtic. During that time, the word “weird”
With that in mind, the three weird sisters were probably in reference to the three Norns, who were named Wyrd, Skuld, and Verdandi. In Norse tradition, these three women, or Norns, spun mankind’s destiny from where they sat beside the World Ash Tree, or Yggdrasil. As a result, some believe that this implies that the Orkney Jarls, who were enemies of Macbeth, may have somehow influenced the telling of his history.