Final answer:
In Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” Macbeth and Lady Macbeth plan to frame King Duncan's chamberlains for his murder by intoxicating them and smearing them with Duncan’s blood.
Step-by-step explanation:
In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth plan to blame King Duncan's death on his two chamberlains. Lady Macbeth orchestrates a plan to intoxicate the servants with wine and wassail so that they would be in a deep sleep during the murder. Once Duncan is murdered, they smear the sleeping chamberlains with Duncan’s blood to implicate them in the crime.
Lady Macbeth says, “Will I with wine and wassail so convince That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume, ... What cannot you and I perform upon The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt Of our great quell?” Her plan is to leverage the chamberlains’ unconscious state to frame them for the regicide. The resultant chaos and confusion would then serve as the perfect cover for their treacherous deed.