Macbeth Help PLEASE!

[HKW]

This is my first post, i appologize if it's in the wrong place but i need answers quick. In shakespere's Macbeth,the morning after macbeth has killed king duncan, he pretends he has just woken up. he later admits that he himself killed the two servants guarding the kings room in his rage, yet no one catches him on his contradiction. why is this? is there a special meaning behind this? any imput would be tramendously appreciated (being that this is worth a copious amount of extra crredit to me.)

[Scheherazade]

Check this site: http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/macbeth/

You might find it useful...

[HKW]

i worked over the sparknotes but didn't find insight on this specific dilemma, thanks anyway, anyone have any information on this?

[Molko]

He killed the two servants because they could easily have said that the blood found on their clothing was staged. He wanted to kill them off so that his secret was safe. If they had told anyone that they didnt kill the king, it would have raised doubts in the peoples minds that Duncan was killed by them. Does that make sense? Sorry, I am so bad at articulating my thoughts :p

[HKW]

yes thank you, what i was asking though, was that at first, macbeth acts as though he has just woken up and is surprised when the king is found dead. Then, when the people find the guards dead, he said he killed them the night before because he was enraged at their killing the king. so he must have known the king was dead for him to kill the servants, it's almost as though he slips up in his story.

i don't believe this happens in the written play, but that's how it plays out in the play on video doen by the shakespeareian (sp?) comitee thing.

[Molko]

no, dont they sound the alarm that the king is dead? and that is why he enters the kings room?

[Molko]

ah i didnt read the bottom sentence of your entry. Because, if i remember clearly, that is what happened in the book. Hope this helps :)

[SleepyWitch]

i only read MacBeth the other day and i think it's like this: the alarm is sounded and MacDuff or somebody finds the dead king. so MacBeth and some other lords are outside Duncan's chamber and there's a lot of turmoil. i.e. in all that chaos MacBeth could kill the chamberlains without anyone noticing. in fact he killed them before but he pretends he killed them while everyone was making a fuss about the dead king???????