Shakespeare Assignment

In any story how two people died

1. Macbeth – King Duncan

King Duncan was the wise and noble king of Scotland,who even Macbeth admired. However, this could not stop Macbeth from murdering him in is crazed pursuit of power. Macbeth told his wife, Lady Macbeth about his encounter with the witches and she was even more ecstatic about the possible power that could come to them and was much more determined to get them the crowns. When Lady Macbeth found out that Kind Duncan was to spend a night at their palace soon, she made immediate plans for the murder.

The night King Duncan spent at the Macbeth residence went like this. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth were up late at night when everyone else in the castle was asleep. The plot was this – they would drug King Duncan’s bodyguards, stab King Duncan in his sleep and then frame the guards and flee, pretending the next morning that they knew nothing of the murder. So, Macbeth and his wife made there way up to the place where Kind Duncan was sleepling and prepared to do the deed. Macbeth was a bit hesitant about the stabbing so lady Macbeth decided to do it. When she went into the room to kill King Duncan, she saw that he reminded her of her father and could not do it. So, the evil deed rested in the hands of Macbeth. Macbeth went into the room and reluctantly stabbed King Duncan. As he did this, the guards suddenly woke up and shouted “Murder” and “Lord have mercy on us all” then drifted back off to sleep, muttering a prayer. Shocked by what he had just done, Macbeth forgot to frame the drunk guards and came out of the room staring at his bloody hands awestrucken. Lady Macbeth went back inside the room and finished the gruesome deed and then took a dilusioned Macbeth to wash his hands then back to bed.

2. Macbeth – Banquo

Banquo, like Macbeth was a Scottish general and was with him the night the witches apperared to them and predicted their futures. Macbeth knew that Banquo was going to be the head of a long line of kings, though he would never be one himself (according to the witches) and so he decided to kill him. Macbeth was having a function with many important generals and kings at his house and invited Banquo. Knowing that he wouldn’t actually ever make it to the palace.

Banquo and his son Fleance were riding to Macbeth’s palace by horse and were about 1 mile from the palace when to assassins that Macbeth had hired ambushed them. The assassins saw that it was Banquo by the glare of the latern that his son Fleance was carring and attacked. They cut Banquo’s throat, gave him twenty gashes in the head and flung his body in a nearby ditch. However, in the scuffle, the lantern was dropped and Banquo’s son Fleace escaped.