Imagine you are Macbeth. Write a diary entry in which you express your thoughts and feelings at Act 1 Scene 7 and a later entry at some time later one, possible after meeting the doctor.

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RESPONSE TO SHAKESPEARE - MACBETH

Q- Imagine you are Macbeth. Write a diary entry  in which you express your thoughts and feelings at Act 1 Scene 7 and a later entry at some time later one, possible after meeting the doctor.

Today Lady Macbeth has convinced me. We are going to ahead with the plot to kill the king.

When she first told me about the plan I was very doubtful. I don’t think I will be able to live with myself with the guilt of killing the king. I know this is wrong. What about if we get caught? I am just weighing up the situation.

Perhaps I don’t need to do anything to become king, “If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without stir”.

I possess uncertainty of whether it is righteous to take the life of such a great king in order to feed my hunger for power. As I was thinking about this gesture, I left the chamber and decided not to do the deed.

The idea of killing the king came from me first, this was when I heard the witches prophecies.

When I first met the witches, they told me 3 predictions. They said,

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“All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!”

“All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!”

“All hail, Macbeth! That shalt be king hereafter!”

When I heard this I was shocked and couldn’t believe it. Banquo was with me and he asked them, “Which outward ye show? My noble partner you great with present grace, and great prediction of noble having and of royal hope that he slems rapt withal”.

They then told us the final prediction, “Thou shalt get kings, though be none”.

To us this meant that he will not be king but his children will. ...

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