The Impression Of Duncan's Deaths In Macbeth By William Shakespeare

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Back in the 1600s, when the Renaissance age existed monarchies existed everywhere in Europe and some parts of Asia. The king rules the country and was considered the leader who made all the countries decision from war to education. So when a king dies or gets murdered it would have a huge impact on its people because they lost their ruler. Shakespeare play Macbeth is essentially about a superior soldier that is very well known around the royal family who ends up getting brainwashed from witches that claim he will be future king. Leading him and his wife to cause destructions and chaos throughout the book and in the end backfires on them.Also in Macbeth, King Duncan is murdered in his sleep by Macbeth and numerous reactions of characters are …show more content…
When he went into Duncan 's chamber and saw Duncan 's body he was shock because Duncan was a good king and there was no reason to kill him. For example, when Macduff goes into Duncan 's chamber and comes back with a look of horror he “O horror, horror, horror Tongue not heart cannot conceive, nor name thee”(2.3.56-57). The word “horror” being repeated over and over again shows how Macduff is feeling throughout the scene he has seen. And “horror” being repeated emphasis on Macduff 's reaction. Even the diction shows how traumatized he is from this news because it was so sudden and unexpected. His tone at this moment is terrified about this news; which reveals that Macduff was very close to Duncan not just because he 's the Thane of Fife, but they had a friendship. Another way Macduff is traumatized is when he starts being dramatic about the situation”Confusion now hath made his masterpiece:Most sacrilegious murder broke ofe The Lord 's anionted temple and store thence The life o’n building”(2.3.59-62). In this quote Macduff cherishes Duncan so much that he calls him a “God”. Throughout this Macduff 's tone is what you would typically expect when someone …show more content…
She 's a very mysterious character because you never know what she 's going to do next. And you don’t exactly know the reason why she has the intention to cause harm to others. Lady Macbeth was the brains behind Duncan 's death; Macbeth was her puppet and she used his strings to kill King Duncan. All she cared about was killing Duncan and getting the thrown. For instance, when she 's talking to herself while waiting for Macbeth to return she” Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done’t”(2.3.11-12). This meaning that Lady Macbeth would have killed Duncan herself if he didn’t resemble her father.Then why did she do it, why did she kill Duncan if he resembled her father. She even went as far by saying”If he do bleed, I’ll gild the faces of the grooms withal, for it must seem their guilt”(2.33.53-55). Yet, when the news of Duncan 's death was brought by Macduff she “Woe,alas _ !”(2.3.84). Her tone in this is bittersweet because she cares about Duncan 's death, but not a lot.And to make it dramatic she pretends to faint from the shocking news. She doesn’t care about Duncan 's death; she wants her crown. She 's so greedy and power hungry that she’ll do anything for the crown. Though towards the end of Macbeth she starts showing some real emotion to Duncan 's death. In Act 5 when Lady Macbeth starts going crazy she “What need we fear who knows it, when

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