Can you name three of Macbeths reasons for not killing Duncan?
In reality, Macbeth may not have flipflopped over the termination of his king. Nor may he have needed the pushes and shoves from his wife. For he wasn’t the recipient of honors or kind deeds from his king. Instead, according to the Chronicles by Raphael Holinshed [d. 1580], King Duncan I led a divided kingdom. Among those subjects whom he antagonized was the family of Macbeth. For King Duncan I had been behind the murder of Macbeth’s father, in 1020. Twenty years later, he invaded Macbeth’s lands in Moray. The consequence was his death on August 14, 1040 by his own men under Macbeth’s leadership.
