What were the forces driving Macbeth to Kill Duncan, The King of Scotland?

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What were the forces driving Macbeth to Kill Duncan, The King of Scotland.

By Andrea Young, UVEast

There is already an important question to be asked about Macbeth at an early stage of the play: Who was responsible for drive Macbeth into the sacrilegious act of regicide? The Weird Sist0rs and Lady Macbeth are the major factors that played upon Macbeth’s weak character to meet their own desires. It was through Macbeth’s ambition that he killed Duncan but he needed corrupting along the way from Lady Macbeth and the Three Witches.

        The First Force to bring Macbeth to do it is Lady Macbeth. She is one of Shakespeare’s most frightening characters in his history of plays. It comes apparent that she and her husband have talked about killing Duncan even before the play has started. When we first see her in the play she seems evil, cold and persistent. She talks about the plot and how Macbeth is not evil enough to do the deed,

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        She obviously is like Macbeth in the sense that he is kind to kill Duncan and is going to need a lot of persuading and corrupting , it is clear that she is an evil woman. In her first speech she also talks about turning him evil, she describes this deed in such a way it portrays her as some kind of witch or insane person,

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