The King Is Dead

Early this morning just before the rooster crowed. Our beloved king Duncan was found lying in his bed completely motionless stabbed to dead. He had several, what seemed to be knife wounds in the upper chest and one to the neck. And there was no liable evidence to show that there was any kind of struggle during the stabbing.

We have come to know that the kings own “loyal” watchmen were the ones responsible for the evil deed. They were found syncope (passed out) on the stone floor near the king’s chambers. All of their clothing and daggers were drenched in blood and alcohol which they had consumed. They were killed before they could say any part of what had happened that night, by thane of Cawdor Macbeth.

They say that Macbeth acted out of a vengeful revenge. He said that “O yet I do repent me of my fury, that I did kill them.” So I guess that, in a sense he is sorry for his wrong acts. But we are still unsure of who the actual killers are.

Some say that the murderers are the king’s own sons, since they fled the morning the king was killed. Even so now in this time one brother can’t trust another brother, for that brother might stab him in the back.

By: Daniel Jackman

The brave Thane of Glamis, in the battle against the Thane of Cawdor (Macdonwald), and his evil men in a bloody massacre on the shores of the sea. Recently General Macbeth and Banquo led men against the rebels of Macdonwald. When it looked like the battle was finished, the traitor, Macdonwald, came to the aid of the rebels outnumbering Macbeth’s men. One wounded soldier said, “that the great Macbeth and Banquo fight together just as two swimmers cling to each other just for survival." Another witness said that Macbeth sliced the King of Norway from naval to jaw. 

Later after the battle, the king arrived to bring the Thane of Cawdor back to the kingdom for trial. He was tried for treason in the first degree. He was sentenced to be hanged for betraying his country. Later in, Duncan’s castle, he pronounced Macbeth's succession to the role of the Thane of Cawdor. 

by Josh Matthes