At the begging of the play we are introduced to three witches, Shakespeare thought to and witches because in those days a lot of people believed in things like witchcraft even king James himself. These withes turn out to be a main part of the play because most people would say they are the main reasons to why Macbeth decided to kill the king.
Another vital character in the kings death is Macbeth’s with Lady Macbeth who taunts and emotionally blackmails Macbeth into killing the king some will say she was the main reason behind Macbeth killing. Other people would say it was Macbeth’s greed that leads him to kill the king.
The witches maybe to blame for Macbeth killing king Duncan because the witches had predicted that Macbeth would be Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland. At that moment Macbeth already knows he is Thane of Glamis but is shocked with the other two predictions.
I think from this moment Macbeth knows exactly what he has to do, at this point in the novel he thinks highly of the king and thinks it will be an act of treason to even think about killing the king. He also says “ We will proceed no further in this business” meaning he did not want to think about killing the king anymore and him and his wife should not speak about it again.
So some people would say if the witches hadn’t had bought the whole thing up Macbeth would not have started to get any ideas in his head. Also withes are known to have powers that can make ordinary people do things that they would not normally do, so you can also blame witchcraft on the events that followed. These are all key points in why some people believe that the witches were to blame for the death of king Duncan.
Other people would say that lady Macbeth is responsible for the death of the king because when Macbeth writes the letter to lady Macbeth telling her about what the witches had predicted for him lady Macbeth thinks from then that the only way Macbeth will be king is if he killed the king himself but she knew that her husband was loyal to the king and she says that “he’s heart is too full of human kindness”. Lady Macbeth taunted and teased Macbeth into killing the king she did this by saying “ Was the hope drunk… hath it slept since and wakes it know”. I think that lady macbeths taunts is one of the main reasons why Macbeth did kill king Duncan.
