If I saw a dagger hanging in mid air I would think I was losing my mind. The dagger in Macbeth leads him to Duncan's room and guides him to draw his own dagger. My first thought was maybe the witches are magical and put a spell on the sword, but that is never mentioned in the story. When Macbeth starts seeing blood on the dagger he is sure he is losing him mind, but he pulls the dagger and kills Duncan. Unfortunately for Macbeth the servants saw him commit the murder, he then kills the servants and admits to killing the servant because he claims he saw them kill the king and was so mad at them. This I think was actually pretty smart on Macbeth's side, he saved his butt by fessing up to killing the servants in honor of the king. This makes him look like a noble man in the eyes of the people who don't know the truth. Macbeth does feel bad about the murder though, because he knows that the king is said to be God's representative on earth. Therefore he believes he has upset God and will be going to hell.
What surprised me though in this area of the book is that Macbeth doesn't seem to care when his sons run away because they are disgusted with there fathers actions. Now they look like the prime suspects of the murder.
I totally agree with you. Macbeth killing the servants totally made sense because he had to save himself. Very well thought-out on your part. Well done Kelly xx
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ReplyDelete1. The servants did not know he committed the murder. They were only killed because it was planned that they will blame the murder on the servants. Macbeth used the servants' daggers to murder the king.
2. There was no mention about Macbeth having sons in the entire play, he was childless throughout. The only mention of a possible child is when Lady Macbeth states that she had breastfeeded a child before, but there was no mention about why she did so and what happened to the child afterwards. In the 2015 movie adaptation, it was shown that his baby son had died, but it is just a more likely assumption based on the play.