ENG220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Banquo, Killing Machine, Tyrant
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Macbeth does not enter until the 3rd scene of the play. Macbeth is tricked into killing the king by his wife, we are right to push back on that idea. Source: raphael holinshed"s the chronicles of england, scotland, and ireland. Duncan is simplified in the play, he is a good king, not so in the source, which gives us a world in scotland where everyone is competing. ), the source spends a lot of time thinking about duncan and his kingship. Macbeth is a henchman, and duncan doesn"t play fair. On witches: they say the same things in the source, in the source macbeth and. They re infused by means of prophecy through their necromancial sciences, it"s not clear that they are making it happen, but rather just that they know it. In the source it is clear that it is his wife who is pushing the murder.
