... bad. The next act, act 1, scene 4 is a linking act. It links Macbeth leaving the witches to Duncan coming to stay at Macbeth's castle. Duncan makes his eldest son, Malcolm, the prince of Cumberland. After Macbeth hears this he gets angry. He states that he has to overcome the problem of Duncan and Malcolm to claim his title of king, "The ... Prince of Cumberland! That is a step On which I must fall down, or else o"er leap For in my way it lies, stars hide your fires! Let not light see my black ... ...

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... that he willingly accepts and believes the witches" predictions. Consequently he begins to plot a murder (with the help of his wife) when the son of the King, Malcom, is named Prince of Scotland. Macbeth believes that he must do anything to become king and fulfil the fate laid down before him by the witches. Although the witches might have initiated the ... believe in chance, to protect him from the "horrid" thoughts of a plot to murder the king, but after Macbeth's path to the throne is cut off, when Malcom is named prince of Scotland, his mind refers to his first instinct as a last ho...

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... Country. Duncan says that he deserves much more and that Banquo is equally thankful for his good deeds. Then Duncan announces that Malcolm shall be his heir. He names him Prince Of Cumberland, always successor to the King of Scotland. The audience and reader of this play would be shocked at this point, finding out that Duncan has made his son ... Macbeth would become King. Macbeth is also shocked at what has happened and says to himself that it is something that he must dodge, to get to the throne. "The Prince of Cumberland - that is a step, On which I must fall down, or else o"erleap, ...

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... said, "Why, if fate will have me king, why, chance may crown me," ( Act I, Sc 3, p.44-45). Yet increasingly his ambition defeated his good nature. When Duncan named Malcolm the Prince of Cumberland, Macbeth decided on the murder of Duncan. When Duncan arrived at Inverness, Macbeth controled his ambition for the time being and did not kill Duncan. The failing of ... ...

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