The Role Of Lady Macbeth Responsible For Duncan's Death

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Hazuki Sakamoto
Macbeth Argumentative Essay
Mrs Proud
Lady Macbeth is responsible of Duncan’s Death
In the play of Macbeth, there are some characters that could be responsible for Duncan’s death. I personally think Lady Macbeth is the cause of Duncan's murder. She is the most ambitious to kill the king in the beginning of the play, pressuring Macbeth. Lady Macbeth was persuasive of driving Macbeth to commit the murder. She manipulates him to go through with the murder even though he was very doubtful about it. Despite of the fact other characters may have partially play a part to the murder of King Duncan such as the three witches and Macbeth himself, she was the main motivator of the execution as her role was the most prominent. Without her arousing Macbeth into committing the murder of Duncan, this killing would not have happened. …show more content…

However, he starts to believe that there is no need to take any actions in order to become the ruler; “If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without my stir.” (I, III) While, Lady Macbeth, when she received the prophecies, she immediately thinks that Macbeth must kill Duncan in order for Macbeth to replace him. “too full o’ the milk of human kindness. To catch the nearest way.” (I, V) Here, she is talking about Macbeth being overly nice to kill the king. Throughout her monologue, Lady Macbeth mentions how she needs to do something wicked to take the king’s place. Later, when Macbeth and