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Macbeth: The Murder Of King Duncan

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This scene takes place in Macbeth's castle, the morning after the murder of King Duncan. Lennox describes the eerie and unsettling feeling he had the previous night. People are saying they "heard i' th' air, strange screams of death, / and prophesying with accents terrible / of dire combustion and confused events" (30-32). Macduff goes to wake Duncan, finding him murdered in his sleep. Macduff is flustered and emotional, and yells to wake everyone in the castle. Lady Macbeth puts on a naïve act, innocently pretending to be upset, proclaiming "woe, alas" (64)! Macbeth takes this false sorrow a step further, stating that without the King, life is worthless, declaring "from this instant / there's nothing serious in mortality" (69-70), and "the
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