In Shakespeare’s play “the tragedy of Macbeth” Scotland 1300AD Macbeth is plotting the death of his king with his dear wife, Lady Macbeth. Three witches prophesized that Macbeth would someday be king, this prophecy drove Macbeth mad with power making him impatient. When Lady Macbeth heard the news she enforces the idea of the king’s murder. The setting was Macbeths castle, Inverness, Duncan would be spending the night after the party. Lady Macbeth drugged the guard’s drinks and waited for them to fall into a deep medicated sleep providing the opportunity for Macbeth to slip into the king’s quarters and plunge his daggers into the king, killing him and unknowingly killing himself. Macbeth becomes mad with grief of what he has just done and runs
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Or he could be found innocent by reason of insanity, seeing as he saw a bloody dagger in the air before the murder. There is much more of a case to prove him guilty than innocent however, after the murder of his king he went on a spree of killing close friends and enemies. “Is this a dagger I see in front of me, with its handle pointing toward my hand? (To the dagger) Come, let me hold you. (He grabs at the air in front of him without touching anything) I don’t have you but I can still see you. Fateful apparition, isn’t it possible to touch you as well as see you? Or are you nothing more than a dagger created by the mind, a hallucination from my fevered brain?” (Shakespeare A2.1, p 2) this quote references to before the murder of king Duncan and shows that Macbeths mind was already suffering and the bloody dagger could have “forced” him to kill the king. In today’s time that would have been enough to call for innocence by reason of insanity. Macbeth never would have made it throughout the night of murder without lady Macbeths help because after he killed the king he went mad, and could not carry out the rest of the assassination. He also couldn’t sleep and required vast amounts of comforting after that night and also lost all sense of his morals. So I believe that in today’s time Macbeth would be found innocent and kept in a mad house for the remainder of his
Or he could be found innocent by reason of insanity, seeing as he saw a bloody dagger in the air before the murder. There is much more of a case to prove him guilty than innocent however, after the murder of his king he went on a spree of killing close friends and enemies. “Is this a dagger I see in front of me, with its handle pointing toward my hand? (To the dagger) Come, let me hold you. (He grabs at the air in front of him without touching anything) I don’t have you but I can still see you. Fateful apparition, isn’t it possible to touch you as well as see you? Or are you nothing more than a dagger created by the mind, a hallucination from my fevered brain?” (Shakespeare A2.1, p 2) this quote references to before the murder of king Duncan and shows that Macbeths mind was already suffering and the bloody dagger could have “forced” him to kill the king. In today’s time that would have been enough to call for innocence by reason of insanity. Macbeth never would have made it throughout the night of murder without lady Macbeths help because after he killed the king he went mad, and could not carry out the rest of the assassination. He also couldn’t sleep and required vast amounts of comforting after that night and also lost all sense of his morals. So I believe that in today’s time Macbeth would be found innocent and kept in a mad house for the remainder of his