For this scene I have decided to focus on Dramatic Irony. Which means the audience knows more than the actor’s themselves. Dramatic Irony started in Act 1 Scene 6 when King Duncan declares that him and all of his thanes and loyal subjects declared that they stay the night at Macbeth’s castle. Until Lady Macbeth realizes her chance to kill King Duncan, another way to do say it in Lady Macbeth’s mind would be “Just get it over and done it.” Then one sentence or 3 sentences stuck out to me, he would say. “We still have judgement here; that we but teach bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.” This means to me that King Duncan or at least someone else in Macbeth’s castle he wants executed because of the chance he has for being King of Cumberland, another sentence that stuck out to me was in the 4-5 paragraph in Act 1 Scene 7. “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 that memory.” Another part was “What cannot you and I preform upon the unguarded Duncan? what not put upon his spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt of our great quell?” These two paragraph are representing the fact that Macbeth is referring to King Duncan’s guards who would be drunk.
During the feast, the guards of King Duncan would be drunk and unable to defend their King. When Macbeth then tries to convince Lady Macbeth to kill Duncan, he simply says. “What cannot you and I preform upon the unguarded Duncan..?”. This means Macbeth doubts that Lady Macbeth cannot preform the murder of King Duncan.