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Lady Macbeth Is Responsible For The Death Of King Duncan

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Jaxon Crane
Mrs. Stephens
English Period #1
November 14th, 2017
Macbeth Essay
Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare’s most eerie plays. So eerie the name Macbeth alone is supposed to be haunted and cursed people for saying it. Macbeth is a play all about how one man named Macbeth is pressured into killing a king. He does so kill him and his own ambition and guilt is eating him alive. This is why this four-hundred year old play is so famous today.
Macbeth’s wife, who is referred to as Lady Macbeth, is who I think is responsible for the death of King Duncan. In act I scene 5 she states that Macbeth is not a man if he does not kill him. Even today most of us teenagers are pressured that same way. If we don’t do something in that moment and time
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