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"Alack, I am afraid they have awaked,

And ’tis not done. Th’ attempt and not the deed/Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready;/He could not miss ‘em. Had he not resembled

My father as he slept, I had done ’t" (2.2. 14-17)

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Shakespeare's decision not to incorporate the murder in the play, offers the audience an experience of ongoing suspicion and a sense of tension in the plot, with its impact influencing the play’s duration. Such suspense is also seen in Macbeth’s potyral of thought “There’s no such thing. It is the bloody business which informs this to mine eyes ”(2.1 59-60). A showcase of the play’s suspense on Macbeth's stance on what he thinks he must do.

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“Go, carry [the daggers] and smear / The sleepy grooms with blood. [...] If he do bleed, I’ll gild the faces of the grooms withal / For it must seem their guilt. [...] Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?” (2.2. 63-63; 71-73; 78-79).

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“Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more! / Macbeth does murder sleep’ – the innocent sleep, / Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, / The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, / Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, / Chief nourisher in life’s feast” (2.2. 47-52).

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"Thou seest the heavens, as troubled with man's act,/Threatens his bloody stage" (2.4 7-8).

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The murder of King Duncan was caused by Lady Macbeth due to her persistent nagging towards Macbeth that murdering King Duncan would be the best course of action that would benefit them both. Lady Macbeth uses an example of “dash[ed]ing the brains out” of her own baby for a chance of becoming queen (1.7. 66). Using gory descriptive words that would further push Macbeth to go forward with his plan.

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Why do you think the actual murder is not in the play?

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Why do you think the actual murder is not in the play?

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1. We believe the actual murder is not in the play because although Duncan’s murder is an important plot point, the emotional turmoil that Macbeth experiences throughout the planning and execution of the murder is highlighted. The moment when Macbeth shifts his mind to kill Duncan is when Duncan is truly murdered, resulting in a lack of need to exhibit the murder itself. Macbeth’s thoughts are presented in the lines, “How is ‘t with me when every noise appalls me? / What hands are here! Ha, they pluck out mine eyes.” (2.2. 76-77).

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Proper format: We believe that without Lady Macbeth constant coaxing and her subtle denouncing of his vigor and masculinity, has forced Macbeth to take action against these claims. Lady Macbeth’s true desire to have social mobility and authority in a society that disparages women manifests itself in her ruthless desire to kill Duncan. She believes that her position in society is a result of an unfair organization of classes, her actions display her longing to have the privilege and self-determination that is only bestowed to men.

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That guy DEFO would not have killed Duncan if his fragile masculinity wasn’t so harshly affected by his old hag wife. He wanted to get a higher rank in a society that already hates women, so ofc lady macbeth gets angry dafuq??? Her societal position (as smart ppl say it) was unfair legit since birth…can’t blame her tbh.

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“I see thee still,

And, on thy blade and dungeon, gouts of blood,

Which was not so before. Theres so such thing” (2.1. 53)

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We think it’s not in the play because it leaves it up to imagination about how Macbeth killed Duncan. Was he ruthless, did he take his time, did he contemplate it even more, or did he get it over with fast and then lamented in the room. It leads us to consider whether this is something he wanted to do or felt possessed to do. Shakespear makes his prose obscure and difficult to comprehend, asking the reader to carefully analyze the presence of key words and symbols. We area asked to interpret macbeth’s motives, our final thoughts surrounding his morals painting the picture of the murder to reflect the pure human experience.

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Maybe if you use ur small brains you can realize that the murder isn’t in the play bc you have to IMAGINE IT. SO many fun questions to think about when you don’t have the actual murder played out for you like ur stupid lil TV shows. Also it opens a huge doorway to think ab like “what if he wanted to do it!!!!”

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Do you think that Macbeth would have committed the murder without Lady Macbeth's influence? Why/why not? - Julian and Ish

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Do you think that Macbeth would have committed the murder without Lady Macbeth's influence? Why/why not? - Julian and Ish

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1. We believe that Macbeth would not have murdered Duncan without Lady Macbeth’s influence. He wasn’t convinced that killing Duncan was the right thing to do, as evident when he states, “We will proceed no further in this business. / He hath honored me late, and I have bought / golden opinions from all sorts of people, / which would be worn now with their newest gloss / not cast aside so soon” (1.7. 34-38). Macbeth starts to try to defend Duncan from his own ambition, which displays his inability to go through with the murder without help.

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“Methought I heard a voice cry ‘sleep no more!/Macbeth does murder sleep’--The innocent sleep” (2.2 47-48)

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 Question 2. Andres, Matteo, Liam, Micheal

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 Question 2. Andres, Matteo, Liam, Micheal

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1. We believe that without Lady Macbeth's encouragement and influence, Macbeth would not have followed through with the murder. One piece of evidence is when Lady Macbeth says, “We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place /…/ And we’ll not fail. /…/ When Duncan is asleep, his two chamberlains /…/ Will I with wine and wassail so convince /…/ That memory, the warder of the brain /…/ Shall be a fume, and the recipes of reason /…/ A limbeck only. When in swinish sleep /…/ Their drenched natures lie as in a death /…/ What cannot you and I perform upon Th’ unguarded Duncan? /…/ What not put upon /…/ His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt of our great quell.” ( 1.7. 69-82). This quote shows how Lady Macbeth influences Macbeth by questioning his masculinity and, by doing this, unconsciously makes Macbeth want to prove it. She also gives Macbeth ideas to kill him, saying they will not fail if they do everything according to their plan.

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“ Or else worth all the rest. I see thee still/and on thy blade and dudgeon, gouts of blood,/Which was not so before. There’s no such thing./It is the bloody business which informs (2.1 58-60)

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1. Why do you think the actual murder is not in the play?

The actual murder isn’t in the play because Shakespeare wants to leave the audience wondering what happened. Macbeth is in a state of not knowing what's real and what isn't, so Shakespeare creates the same environment for the audience as he continues to allude that it occurred.

Line to support: “a dagger of the mind, a false creation. Proceeding from the head oppressed brain?” (2.1. 50-51).

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1. After Macbeth murdered Duncan, he felt immense guilt, showing how his wife played a role in influencing him into doing something he would not have done on his own. Soon after Macbeth murdered Duncan, he and his wife had an argument about the death of the king. When Macbeth is recording what happened to his wife, he describes, “But wherefore could not I pronounce ‘Amen’?/I had the most need of blessing, and ‘Amen’/Stuck in my throat.”(2.2.33 -- 34). Here, Macbeth is revealing how he felt so much guilt after the murder that he felt unworthy of God. He knew he had done a very horrible sin, which made the word “amen” feel “stuck in '' in his throat. His shame in his actions emphasizes how he would have likely never committed the murder if Lady Macbeth had not been judgmental of his supposed “cowardness”.

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Who holds the most blame for the murder? Macbeth? Lady Macbeth? The witches? An external force (i.e. "fate", "ambition") - Julian and Ish

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Who holds the most blame for the murder? Macbeth? Lady Macbeth? The witches? An external force (i.e. "fate", "ambition") - Julian and Ish

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1. We believe that Lady Macbeth holds the most blame as a result of her coercion to go through with the plan. If she had not convinced him to follow through with the murder, he would have chickened out. Such encouragement is exemplified when she says, “When you durst do it, you were a man; / and to be much more than what you were, you would / Be so much more the man” (1.7. 56-58). Lady Macbeth attacks his masculinity in an attempt to inspire the resolve needed to go through with it, emphasizing her as a crucial figure in the murder.

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Why is the murder not shown in the play? - Matteo, Andres, Liam, Michael

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Why is the murder not shown in the play? - Matteo, Andres, Liam, Michael

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The first reason is to build tension. Because plays are inherently dramatic, a pivotal moment such as the murder of King Duncan may not be shown to let the reader question what actually happened in order to build suspense. Additionally, prior to the murder of King Duncan, Macbeth is hallucinating and doesn’t seem to be completely conscious. Subsequently, he subconsciously draws his dagger out. The second reason that the murder is not in the play is to further reinforce the mood of the scene and the behavior of Macbeth. Just as Macbeth is subconsciously going to King Duncan’s room without fully realizing his actions, the murder is not shown to retain the same mood of the scene and Macbeth’s lack of realization of his actions and consequences.

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Even without Lady Macbeth’s influence, the witches likely would have used their supernatural abilities to persuade Macbeth to fulfill the prophecy, evident in Macbeth’s soliloquy before the murder of Duncan where he sees a dagger, “the handle toward [his] hand / … / [he] have thee not, and yet I see thee still. / Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible / to feeling as to sight” (2.1 44-49). The hallucinations, likely caused by the witches, give him the confidence to kill Duncan.

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“Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house. /.../ “Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore /.../ Cawdor /.../ shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more”(2.2. 54-57).

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Lady Macbeth holds the most blane as the murder of Duncan would not have taken place if it were not for Lady Macbeth’s role in influencing Macbeth to stab the king. Throughout the playwright, Lady Macbeth constantly urges that Macbeth should kill King Duncan to make the witch's prophecies become a reality. It is shown through Lady Macbeth’s determination for Macbeth to be king even when he himself is having doubts, “If we should fail– We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place, and we’ll not fail.” (1.7.68-71).

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The three witches hold the most blame for the murder of King Duncan. In the third scene of the play, the three witches plant the idea of Macbeth becoming King in his mind by telling him their prophecy and then dramatically disappearing. The third witch chants, “All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!”(Shakespeare 1.3. 53).

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“Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse / The curtained sleep” (2.1. 62-63).

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In Act 2 of Macbeth by Shakespeare, Duncan’s two sons, Malcolm and Donalbain, flee Macbeth’s castle after their fathers’ murders, leading them to be the prime suspects of the crime.

Macduff, a Scottish noble who witnesses the death, mentions to Ross, another Scottish noble, “Malcolm and Donalbain, the King’s two sons, are stol’n away and fled, which puts upon them suspicion of the deed” (2.4. 36-38).

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Who holds the most blame for the Murder? Liam, Matteo, Andres, Michael.

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Who holds the most blame for the Murder? Liam, Matteo, Andres, Michael.

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Lady Macbeth holds the most blame for the murder of King Duncan due to her immediate commitment to the plan to murder him, compared to Macbeth’s justified curiosity towards the Witches’ prophecy. After hearing of Macbeth’s destiny to be king, Lady Macbeth immediately commits to the idea of murdering Duncan, begging the higher powers to “fill [her] from the crown to the toe top-full /.../ of direst cruelty. Make thick [her] blood” (1.5. 49-50). However, after hearing of the prophecy directly from the witches, Macbeth demands the witches to “Stay … tell me more” (1.3. 73). Therefore, by displaying the immediate commitment and pleading to be consumed by terrible thoughts, Lady Macbeth demonstrates why she holds the most blame for the murder.

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The play “Macbeth” is created through the view of Renaissance Humanism, where more playwriting would be left out of murder scenes. Shakespeare’s reason for not putting the actual murder in the play can be concluded to be that he wanted the audience to primarily focus on what he thought was more important than a gruesome scene, which was the aftermath of Macbeth’s decision. The follow-through of the murder of King Duncan led to Macbeth’s remorse.

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Macbeth would not have committed the murder without the influence of Lady Macbeth. The whole time leading up to the murder, Macbeth had been extremely hesitant to follow through, which can be seen when he says “I am his kinsman and his subject, strong both against the deed; then, as his host, who should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself” (1.7 13-16). It was Lady Macbeth who was able to convince him that murdering Duncan was in their best interest.

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“Methought I heard a voice cry “Sleep no more!

Macbeth does murder sleep”—the innocent sleep,

Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,

The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath,

Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,

Chief nourisher in life’s feast”(2.2. 47-55).

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After reading pages 51-53, it becomes apparent that Macbeth was contemplating killing King Duncan on his own. He talks about how “fate” will lead him to commit this crime, but in contrast, has his hallucinations (so he it is his personal desire) of holding a dagger and conducting “bloody business' ' (2.1. 51-53). Therefore, he would have murdered the King without Lady Macbeth.

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“And, on thy blade and dudgeon, gouts of blood, / Which was not so before” (2.1. 57-58).

“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood/ Clean from my hand?” (2.2 78-79)

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We believe that Macbeth holds the worldly burden of murder due to his determination to rise the social ranks and his lack of autonomy to refuse his wife. When he ruminates on the idea of murder, he is encouraged by his wife, who believes it is the best way to fulfill the prophecy. Macbeth becomes infatuated with gaining power through the guidance of the witches, and his wife merely supports him, taking up an actionable role in the demise of duncan. Though his wife helped him commit the murder, Macbeth was the one who could have physically prevented the death, as he was the one wielding the dagger. It is unfair to believe that one’s morals are not strong enough to prevent a murder, as it is clear that he was considering the ramifications of this action long before the involvement of lady macbeth. He had the authority to ignore the prophecy and let it come to be through the progression of time, yet he was impatient enough to tempt fate and commit a murder that could have been avoided.

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The actual murder being absent from the play is most likely to build more suspense in the scenes before and after the crime. Macbeth’s soliloquy of a “fatal vision / … / A dagger of the mind, a false creation / … / And on thy blade and dudgeon, gouts of blood, / … / It is the bloody business” (2.1 48 - 60), for instance, enhances his internal thoughts, becoming more delusional and chaotic, providing a suspenseful build-up to the murder.

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“Where we are, /.../ There’s daggers in men’s smiles. The near in blood, /.../ the nearer bloody”(2.3. 165-166).

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Why do you think the actual murder is not in the play?

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Why do you think the actual murder is not in the play?

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Identify lines that have the recurring image of "blood"

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Do you think that Macbeth would have committed the murder without Lady Macbeth’s influence? Why/why not?

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Do you think that Macbeth would have committed the murder without Lady Macbeth’s influence? Why/why not?

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Support your idea with textual evidence

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Who holds the most blame for the murder? Macbeth? Lady Macbeth? The witches? An external force (i.e. "fate", "ambition")

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Who holds the most blame for the murder? Macbeth? Lady Macbeth? The witches? An external force (i.e. "fate", "ambition")

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Support your idea with textual evidence.

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Identify lines in Act II that have the recurring image of "sleeping/dreaming"