Macbeth - Guilty or Innocent?

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, I will be brief. You are about to see the testimonies and the evidence which will convict this man of murder and it is now time for the fate of Macbeth to be decided. I believe beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant Macbeth killed King Duncan, his life-long friend Banquo and Lady Macduff and her children. Over the last six months we have seen Macbeth degrade from a fearless and heroic warrior to a murderer, a conscious villain who felt tremendous guilt after killing his King out of pure greed and desire. His servant overheard Macbeth express his guilt to his wife on the night of the murder: “I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on ‘t again I dare not.” Following his crowning, King Macbeth hired three assassins to murder his friend Banquo, in order to protect his crown. It was after the murder of Banquo that Macbeth then turned into an uncompassionate, non-regretful tyrant. This man, once proclaimed a hero, became the aggravation of Sco...