Macbeth Macbeth is not a killer
Macbeth: Macbeth is not a killerThroughout Macbeth, the characters moods and opinions change. Macbeth turns from a keen, moral, skilled kingsmen to a power hungry murderer. In this essay you will see that Macbeth did not want to kill the king (Duncan) and with Lady Macbeth\'s smart and cunning ways, brainwashed him and convinced him to commit the murder and turn him into a heartless killer.
The story of Macbeth started when three witches confronted him and tell him that he will become the next king and kill the current king. Thus Macbeth decides to write a letter to his beloved wife (Lady Macbeth). In the letter he describes his strange encounter with the three witches. Lady macbeth is extremely pleased with the news, however does not believe that Macbeth is capable of murder. Lady Macbeth calls for evil, supernatural spirits to come and fill her with cruelty, so that she and her husband can commit the murder. Lady Macbeth is very determined to become the next queen. \"Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty.\"(I V 48-50).
Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth that the king Duncan will be coming
and leaving the next mourning, thus Lady Macbeth see\'s this as an excellent opportunity to murder the king, Macbeth becomes worried and nervous as his facial expressions show. Lady Macbeth tells him to look normally and show a happy, welcoming face. \"Your face my thane, is a book where men may read strange matters...Bear welcome in your eye, your hand and your tongue. Look th\' innocent flower\" ( I VI 73-77). Lady Macbeth then offers a plan for the murder of Duncan, \"But be the serpent under\'t he thats comeing must be provided for, you shall put this nights great business into my dispatch\"( I VI 78-80). Macbeth seems interested however after Lady Macbeth gives him the idea of murder his morals come into place, and he questions the murder. \"If it were done when \'tis, then \'twere well it were done quickely. If the assination could trammel up the consequence and catch with his surcease success\" ( I VII 4). Macbeth states that if the murder was committed there would be no consequences however \"what comes around goes around\". He also states that Duncan is a good king and doesn\'t deserve to be killed, he continually shows his morals and questions the murder, \"I dare do all that may become a man. Who dares do more is none\" (I VII 52-53). Macbeth says that to serve the king and fight in battle he is a man, but to kill the king he is nothing. The cunning Lady Macbeth is slightly mad at his theory and now tries to convince him to commit the murder, and if he does he will be more then a man. \" That made you break this enterprise to me? when you durst do it, then you were a...
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