Macbeth: Guilt, Defendant, Jury, And The Crowd

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Dear your Honor, Crown, Prosecutor, Jury, and the Crowd.

i email you guys today to inform you of my findings from going over the Macbeth case. i strongly believe that this man is innocent, but guilt from insanity. his words muffled by Here 's a little crime scene timeline of how the murder of King Duncan came about. It all started when The Weird Sisters told Macbeth about their Prophecies forecasting that Macbeth will become Thane of Cawdor and the King. Macbeth turns out to become The Thane of Cawdor and is astonished by the fact that the prophecies were coming truth. Macbeth was addicted to these prophecies from the very start. The Weird Sisters tell Macbeth that he will rise and become king, despite that prophecy, King Duncan names his
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She tells us that Macbeth forgot to leave the dagger beside the guard’s bodies to frame them. She gets really upset with Macbeth, explaining the fact that if she would have done it, then the plan would have stayed on the rails. She claims that her husband was too cowardly to take the daggers back so she did it herself. She says that next the both agreed to be each other alibi and that they should return to their sleeping chambers. In the morning Macduff comes in with the news that the King has been murdered in cold blood. Sorrow swept the kingdom with the news of the death. Macbeth emotionally admits that he killed the guards all himself, but only out of rage and loyalty to the …show more content…
Predicting the fact that she shouldn’t be surprised of the death of the king. It was all an act of her pretty face. She wanted to distract everyone from Macbeth 's ramble about the killings. She didn’t want Macbeth to spill the beans on what happened last night. It was a close call.

The day after the murder of their beloved father, the brothers flee the country. The police and crime investigators were overwhelmed with the fact that there were so many suspects. The perfect night to create the perfect murder. We suspected Malcolm, the King’s son, who wouldn’t get the throne until his father had passed away. We thought the motive was very clear here, but the idea was abolished from the fact that the reason the brothers fled the country was in order to protect themselves. They felt that if the murder was in the room with them, that they could potentially be next of the kill

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