Lady Macbeth Should Be Chargeed With First-Degree Murder

Unlike his wife, Macbeth does not instantly assume he must do something as drastic as murdering the King of Scotland for his own political gain. In addition to this, Macbeth had serious doubt on murdering Duncan, as he held so much respect for him. His doubt is displayed in this quote, “But in these cases / We still have judgment here, that we but teach / Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return / To plague th' inventor: this even-handed justice/ Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice / To our own lips.” (1.7, 7-12).

She knows just what she has to do to guarantee that if the King were to get killed that Macbeth would be the one to get the throne. "Lady Macbeth encourages her husband to seize the power of requisite to ruthless patrilineal order. "(Alfar 182). Killing all of King Duncans' heirs was one thing she knew she had to be done to guarantee Macbeth would be the next person in line for the throne. Lady Macbeth was a strong woman that when she had her mind set on something she was going to do whatever it took to do it without hesitation.

Macbeth is responsible for King Duncan's murder, because he was the person to physically kill, even so, Lady Macbeth is the more evil of the two because she influenced Macbeth to wrongly pursue his ambitions. Lady Macbeth's evil side is shown multiple times throughout the play. In Act 1, Scene 2, we see Lady Macbeth reading a letter from Macbeth telling her that he is Thane of Cawdor and King Duncan is coming over for dinner. He also says that the witches told him he will become king which leads him to suggest killing him, which leads Lady Macbeth to plan on killing him and asks “That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,” (Shakespeare 1.5, 44) which is implying how a woman can not kill and asking to be turned into a man to kill.

She had come up with the idea itself to murder Duncan after reading the letter about the prophecies of the Witches. She falls for the initial deception of the Witches that causes her own ambition to take control. After convincing Macbeth to kill Duncan in order to take the throne she plots to deceive Duncan. “Look like th' innocent flower, but be the serpent under ’t” (Act 1, Scene 5, Page 3). She was plotting to look innocent, being welcoming to Duncan after her husbands promotion.

Your honour and gentlemen of the jury, King Duncan's demise was unquestionably brought forth by Lady Macbeth. Even murder would be committed in her selfish lust for power. She manipulates Macbeth, her husband, to carry out her plan to kill King Duncan as something that must be done. She acts swiftly and without considering of the consequences, kills King duncan . Although she didn't really murder the king, she was still the cause of it.

Macbeth can be seen as legally responsible for the murder, as it has been proven that possessed both the actus reus and mens rea of the crime. Despite Macbeth’s guilt being proven, Lady Macbeth and the Witches were not innocent either. Had they not interfered, Macbeth would never have thought of murdering the King Duncan. After Macbeth committed the murder, he was in such a distraught state that he forgot to place the knife on the guards. Macbeth’s disturbed state is such a stark contrast from how he was originally described in Act 1, Scene 2, “For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name) disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel, which smok’d with bloody execution,” (Shakespeare, Act 1, Scene 2).

She does this through the articulation of situations that make Macbeth feel less than Lady Macbeth because said she would kill if she promised to do so and Macbeth is stating that he is questioning killing Duncan after saying he would. Although Lady Macbeth never carried out any murders, it is enough to convince Macbeth that he is strong enough to do so because if a woman could hypothetically carry out of murder then a man could definitely do it. Lady

Lady Macbeth, on the other hand, also realizes that nothing can save her from her guilt. Using her persuasive powers to manipulate him, Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to commit the murder. Even going as far to provide the plan and the means for carrying out the deed. Lady Macbeth is also the one who frames the guards for the murder, and she helps cover up the murder by taking the daggers back to the crime scene and washing the blood off of Macbeth’s hands. In the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth is portrayed as a strong, ambitious woman that would do anything to achieve her goals.

She struggles with the notion that she had a hand in King Duncan's murder. She did not want to murder King Duncan herself because she saw her father in him. This caused her to force Macbeth to do the deed himself. When he failed to plant the weapons on the guards, Lady Macbeth had no other option but to go and do it herself. This caused her to see King Duncan dead in his bed and get her hands dirty with his blood.

She conjures a plan to murder King Duncan. Yet she herself cannot do the killing for Duncan looks like her father while he slept. So she orders Macbeth to complete the task. Macbeth does not feel killing Duncan is right and denies until he begins to become greedy and desperate. He ends up complying with his wife and kills King Duncan.

She also took charge of the plan for the murder that would give them power and control over their future. This discussion took place while they waited for Duncan's arrival, and Lady Macbeth used it as an opportunity to plant the idea of murder in Macbeth's mind. It's apparent that Lady Macbeth has a great deal of influence over Macbeth considering as he stopped taking her advice he began to spiral. Unfortunately, his actions after this point ultimately led to his demise. Lady Macbeth was the voice of reason, ensuring their plans were thought out and wouldn't ruin their

She taunts him and pokes fun at how he is soft-hearted, and pushes him even further to the edge by comparing his inability to do what it takes to be successful to his inability to love her properly and crawl to the edges of the earth for her. By doing so, she sets off a fire in Macbeth that motivates him to go through with the act of murder. Ultimately, she is successful in persuading Macbeth to murder Duncan, which shows that she is a very controlling, manipulative, and quick-witted woman who can get what she wants. If Lady Macbeth did not persuade Macbeth to kill King Duncan, he would have never gone through with it; her persuasion was essentially the nail in the coffin to sending Macbeth on a moral downward spiral. However, Macbeth goes through with the plan to murder King Duncan not because he fully agreed with Lady Macbeth’s points, but in order to not appear as a coward in front of his wife.

In these lines it says your coward, give me the dagger, the dead people are sleeping and seen as pictures, but only children are scared of evil. This shows that Lady Macbeth has something to do with the death of Duncan and Macbeth. She was involved in it because she had taken the dagger from Macbeth, so she could get rid of the evidence they had to do with Duncan’s death. In act 5 scene 1 Lady Macbeth was sleepwalking and talking and the Doctor and the Gentlewomen saw her. They had no idea what she was talking about

She encouraged Macbeth to kill Duncan, despite him telling Lady Macbeth that he didn’t want to. All Lady Macbeth wanted for her husband was for him to become king, no matter the consequences. She said, “these deeds must not be thought after these ways; so, it will make us mad” (2:2 44-45). Lady Macbeth couldn’t handle killing Duncan thus, manipulating Macbeth to do it. She knew they both couldn’t handle the guilt and shame that came with killing Duncan, even though she thought it was right.

After the hallucination that Macbeth had Duncan was found dead. Lady Macbeth was there to wash her husband's hands clean and rushed him into his room so they were both unseen. Lady Macbeth may have convinced and given Macbeth more reason to kill his cousin earlier in the act. Lady Macbeth could have made Macbeth insane which makes her the murderer as she was the mind behind the plan. She constantly told him how proud of him she was for getting over his fear of supposedly killing his cousin.