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   troutmiller Teacher
   High School - 12th Grade

   Lady Macbeth says she'll wait until Duncan goes to bed (he'll be tired) and she'll make sure to give the two guards enough wine to make them sleep heavily.  That way Macbeth will be able to sneak past them to kill Duncan with the two guards' daggers.  Then they'll place them with the sleeping guards.

   "When Duncan is asleep--
   Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey
   Soundly invite him--his two chamberlains
   Will I with wine and wassail so convince
   What cannot you and I perform upon
   The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon
   His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt
   Of our great quell?"

    

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   http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/full.html

   http://www.enotes.com/macbeth/act-summary-analysis

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   Posted by troutmiller on Sunday December 28, 2008 at 1:25 PM
   
   

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   iluvdance06 Student
   High School - 10th Grade

   He and Lady Macbeth plan to get Duncan’s two chamberlains drunk so they will black out; the next morning they will blame the murder on the chamberlains, who will be defenseless, as they will remember nothing. While Duncan is asleep, Macbeth stabs him, despite his doubts and a number of supernatural portents, including a vision of a bloody dagger. When Duncan’s death is discovered the next morning, Macbeth kills the chamberlains—ostensibly out of rage at their crime—and easily assumes the kingship. Duncan’s sons Malcolm and Donalbain flee to England and Ireland, respectively, fearing that whoever killed Duncan desires their demise as well.

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   Posted by iluvdance06 on Wednesday January 14, 2009 at 5:39 PM