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Lady Macbeth Banquo's Murder

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Macbeth is a play written by Shakespeare that has many genders roles you would not expect. Macbeth has a wife named Lady Macbeth and she wears the pants in their relationship. What I mean by that is Lady Macbeth calls the shots with no hesitation. Macbeth had a chance to be king and Lady Macbeth did not waste her time to make sure he was king. It did not matter who was in the way they would be taken care of to ensure Macbeth kept his spot on the throne and her spot at queen. Throughout the play you start to see how Macbeth and Lady Macbeth both start getting frustrated with lying all of the time and acting like they are both innocent. To prove Lady Macbeth calls the shots she makes sure Duncan gets murdered so that Macbeth could be King. Lady Macbeth also …show more content…

Macbeth went as far to kill one of his close friends Banquo and his son. His son escaped and went back to tell everyone what Macbeth was doing. "There the serpent lies. The worm that's fled / Hath nature that in time will venom breed, / no teeth for th' present" This is Macbeth saying that Banquo's murder was a success but Fleance Banquo's son escaped but Macbeth is not really worried about it (“ACT”). This is about when Macbeth started going crazy with all of the guilt and hallucinated that Banquo's spirit was at dinner with him and three other people. Those people were the Lords and they were starting to get suspicious so Lady Macbeth covered for him like she usually does (“ACT”). She told the Lords he has been having fits like that since he was a boy and to basically ignore him. The three witches that told Macbeth he could be king could still be reached so Macbeth wanted to meet with the witches again to get another fortune. The three witches told him he would not be king again when the forest moves. Lady Macbeth commits suicide and Macbeth ends up being

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