However, Macbeth has a different approach toward King Duncan. “The service and the loyalty I owe, in doing it, pays itself. Your highness’ part is to receive our duties, and our duties Are to your throne and state, children and servants, Which do but what they should, by doing everything Safe toward your love and honor.”(Shakespeare 1.4.25-30). This quote describes Macbeth’s loyalty to King Duncan. However, when the witches explained to him that he would take the throne from King Duncan his whole persona changed. In order to fulfill his fate he takes matter in his own hands, and murders King Duncan.
As the witches approached Banquo, they try to decipher to him that his family would inherit the throne of becoming king. However, he would never become one. Banquo took what the witches said and completely discarded it in his mind.” That trusted home might yet enkindle you unto the crown, besides the Thane of Cawdor. But tis strange; and oftentimes, to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequence Cousins, a word, I pray you.”(Shakespeare 1.3.140-147). This quote can be portrayed as a warning that Banquo was trying to tell Macbeth. Banquo was implying that evil beings such as the witches tell you the truth so they can end up tricking you into doing their devilish deeds. Banquo tried his best into perusing Macbeth into believing that the witches were nothing but pure evil. On the other hand though, Macbeth had plans on his own.
Macbeth was not going to listen to what Banquo had to say. Macbeth wanted to become king and would stop at nothing. He was very thrilled at the news the witches reported to him. “And to be king stands not with wit him the prospect of belief, no more than to be Cawdor. Say form whence you owe this strange intelligence, or why …” (Shakespeare 1.3.85-90). Although Macbeth was very excited about becoming king, he ends up facing the reality that he would have to murder the reigning king, King Duncan. Deep in his confused mind he knew what he had to do to fulfill his golden prize. With pressure from his wife he ends up murdering King Duncan.
In spite of, Macbeth was very anxious to become king, he was quite skeptical in participating in the killing of King Duncan. Macbeth’s wife Lady Macbeth was very persuasive towards Macbeth in order to get him to go forth with the murder. “We have… but one Lady Macbeth had none of the dignity, none of the masculine energy, none of the unrelenting cruelty, none of the devouring ambition which belongs to the cool murderess. She seemed to coax and wheedle her husband to the commission of the crime, instead of pouring her bold spirit into his milky nature.”(Campbel). In this quote, the author describes how he had no daring compassion on doing her deed. She constantly questioned him on his man-hood.
Considering he was delighted to hear what the witches had said to him, he became apprehensive in the plot to carnage King Duncan. After so much verbal pressure from his wife, Macbeth finally committed the murder.” Maternal power in Macbeth is not embodied in the figure of a particular mother; it is instead diffused throughout the play, evoked primarily by the figures of the witches and Lady Macbeth.”(Adelman). This text portrayed how other peoples assumptions influenced the decisions Macbeth made throughout the play.
Furthermore, the play Macbeth’s overall theme played a great impact in the story. “You control your own actions” ties down with the relationship between Banquo and Macbeth. Both were greeted by witches who announced that the Kings throne would one day be controlled by
