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How does Lady Macbeth's attitude fulfill the witches' fair and foul prediction from Act I scene i?
She pushes MacBeth to kill the king and by doing so fulfills the witches predictions.
What is Macbeth doing while lady Macbeth is talking in the beginning of act 2 scene 1?
In Act 2 Scene 1, Macbeth is onstage and Lady Macbeth is not. I think Macbeth in Act 1 Scene 5 is heading back to his castle called "Inverness" to talk to his wife (Lady Macbeth) about what happened with the witches and to come back from the war that just happened. Possibly you were thinking of Act 2 Scene 2 where she is talking and he is stabbing Duncan.
Why are the witches to blame for all the deaths in Macbeth?
Normally, people would not blame the witches. They just said things and Macbeth reacted by doing things. The witches can only be held to blame if you think that Macbeth had no choice in his actions. But if he had no choice, how come the witches do have a choice?
What is the point of the part the three witches play in Macbeth?
The witches predict that Macbeth will be king and how he will fall. These predictions cause Macbeth to dedicate his life to following the witches predictions, doing whatever it takes to make them come true, or to avoid them.
Did Macbeth killed king Duncan because of the witches predictions?
Macbeth kills King Duncan because he is manipulated and influenced by the witches' prophecies, particularly the prediction that he will become king. While the witches' predictions play a role in triggering Macbeth's ambition, ultimately it is his own choices and actions that lead to Duncan's murder.
Why is Hecate angry in act 3 scene 5 in this speech?
All of this scene is a speech by Hecate explaining why she is angry, as a lead up to a happy song and dance number. Basically like an over-controlling bureaucrat, she is mad at her subordinates for doing stuff without copying every single e-mail to her. Why does your teacher even care about this scene? Shakespeare didn't write it. Nobody ever performs it. Why not forget about it?
Why does the witch says Something wicked this way comes in Macbeth?
Because the witches make him think of doing bad things, namely killing Duncan.
What do you think will happen in the play based upon what happens in act 1 scene 5 in Macbeth?
I can't answer because I have seen the play many times and acted in it so I know how it comes out. However, from this scene, especially Lady Macbeth's last line "Leave all the rest to me" and the end of her prayer "that my keen knife see not the wound it makes" you would get the impression that it was her plan to do the stabbing herself, and not browbeat Macbeth into doing it.
What if friar Lawrence doing in the beginning of scene 3?
holding a basket
I'm doing a drama project on macbeth And I'm doing a modern take of the witches lady Macbeth and Macbeth I've no idea how to dress the 3witches any ideas?
Here are a pile of ideas: In the Australian movie of Macbeth starring Sam Worthington which was made in 2006, Macbeth was a drug lord and the witches were schoolgirls and very creepy. In the 1998 TV movie directed by Michael Bogdanov, Macbeth and Banquo ride motorcycles and the witches are bag ladies living in a dump. The stage presentation at Stratford Ontario starring Colm Feore had Macbeth as a modern mercenary in an African country and the witches as tribal witch doctors. Or the witches could be Voodoo priestesses if you wanted to give it a Caribbean slant. Set it in Haiti, maybe. Or suppose the witches are inmates of a mental asylum. The Patrick Stewart production which was filmed by PBS the witches are nurses and the castle resembles an old-style meat packing plant. One of my personal favourite possibilities is to have the witches as residents of a personal care home, who sit in wheelchairs cackling. Or at the other end of the spectrum, they could be "spin doctors" in stylish suits giving Macbeth and Banquo advice on what's trending now. In order to decide on this you have to decide what part the witches play. Are they real or illusionary? Do they really have the power to predict, or are they talking randomly, and does Macbeth make their prophecies happen? Are they frightening? or just strange? Once you know what you want to do with them dramatically, you can eliminate portrayals that won't work. The personal care home residents are not likely to be particularly frightening. Once you know who the witches are, then it is easy to know how they dress.
What was Lady Macbeth's relationship with Macbeth?
After MacBeth receives the predictions from the witches he writes a letter to Lady MacBeth detailing the whole situation. He calls her his "dearest partner of greatness" and is very trusting of her. He is also subject to much influence from her since she is the one who later convinces MacBeth to kill the king, Duncan, when he is resolute on not doing anything of the sort.
Macbeth scene 3 what does this line mean 'if chance will have me king why chance may crown me without my stir?
The tricky part is "without my stir". "Stir" comes from "stirring", waking up, moving about, doing stuff. "Without my stir" means "without me doing anything about it", so the line means "If chance (i.e. fate) will have me [be the] king, why, fate may crown me without me doing anything about it." The witches have told Macbeth that he will be the king hereafter, but they also told him that he was the Thane of Cawdor, and that came true without Macbeth doing anything about it. Maybe all he has to do to become the king is to wait and let fate take its course.
