Duncan

Lady Macbeth by Duncan's bed.
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Biography:**
 * Duncan was the King of Scotland
 * He gives Macbeth the title, Thane of Cawdor, after finding out that the previous Thane of Cawdor was a traitor who leaked information to the Norwegians
 * According to the Witch's future telling, Duncan will lose his thrown to Macbeth
 * He bequeaths the throne of Scotland to his son Malcolm.
 * Lady Macbeth and Macbeth husband decide to murder him, although MacBeth has serious reservations about this.
 * Macbeth murders King Duncan in his sleep, first drugging the guards, resulting in them passing out, (and later killing them) so that they would not know who killed Duncan.
 * Macbeth and his wife commit regicide.
 * By murdering Duncan, the Macbeths hope to have Macbeth become the next king.
 * Since Duncan has two sons, Malcolm and Donalbain, they later see it necessary that they are murdered too, but his sons flee from Scotland before the Macbeths have the opportunity to kill them.


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