Macbeth

Because you don't mess with Lady MacBeth

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The Witches.

Macbeth said that he killed Duncan's grooms out of anger over Duncan's death.

Macdonweald. Macbeth split him from the nave to the chaps. Don't say the Thane of Cawdor; the text does not say he was captured by Macbeth and it wouldn't make any sense to say he did.

Caius Cassius dies by his own sword, slain by his servant/slave in which it appears so that he did not 'technically' commit suicide. After realising his forces were annihilated at the battle of Phillipi

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Apparently incredibly difficult. Many Shakespeare characters had their downfalls because they wanted to be in a position of power... King, or something similar. The entire play King Lear is based on giving up a kingship and having people fight over it after that. Not what it is really about, but the guy certainly suffers for it. :) Just a mirror of the real world though... people lusting after power, playing political games. Hamlet and other plays are just what happens today... except now it is in Congress or a Fortune 500 company instead of a kingdom.

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he died cowardly. He was executed for betraying his team and fought with the enemy. therefore, he did cowardly.

Lennox

Since this happens in Act 1 Scene 3, you probably have not had time to form an initial response before these things happen.

Answer #1 Lady. Answer #2 by Ginezumi The title of Macbeth's wife was Anglicized as Lady Macbeth [b. c. 1015]. In Scottish history, she was called Gruoch ingen Boite, which meant Gruoch daughter of Boite. Through her father Boite mac Cinaeda [988-1058], or Boite the son of Kenneth, Lady Macbeth was the direct descendant of Cinaed mac Ailpin, or Kenneth MacAlpin, who became Scotland's first King as Kenneth I [810-February 3, 858]. Lady Macbeth held the royal title, as Queen consort to her husband [c. 1014-August 15, 1057] during his 17-year reign.

Macbeth, before the murder, can never fully reconcile his desire for the throne--which is strongly encouraged on, if not coerced, by his ambitious wife--and the murder of an old man, a man who has been supportive and generous towards Macbeth, who has never used or abused Macbeth in any way. Macbeth daydreams of being king, but is afraid of the steps towards it--a brutal murder, falsely accusing the retainers in the king's death, the possibility that he will no be believed by his peers. Regicide is a crime, but it is made more terrible when the man killed was a good and just mentor undeserving of the act.

it depends what kind of scene it is, like a fight scene that would be fine but a discussion wouldn't holod

The Shakespearean play 'Macbeth' opened with a fight between Norway and Scotland. King Sweno [c. 1016-1035] wanted to invade Scotland, and King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040] didn't want the Norwegian invasion to succeed. The Norwegian King had managed to attract discontented Scotsmen to his army of invading Norwegians. One such discontent was the powerful, wealthy Thane of Cawdor.

Macbeth is not really an evil person. Although he is used to killing people, being a soldier, he has no desire to murder someone in cold blood, especially his king, his cousin and his guest. Looking at it rationally, he does not see that the benefits come close to justifying such a terrible crime. However, his wife knows how to stop him looking at things rationally, and is able to persuade him to do something he would not otherwise do.

He decides not to hesitate but to act on first impulse in the future. And, feeling an impulse to revenge himself on Macduff's family, he orders everyone in Macduff's home to be slaughtered.

In Shakespeare's time, certain people were really frightened of witches and believed that they were a clear and present danger to their country. The history of the Salem Witch Trials is an example of this kind of fear, which was only starting in Shakespeare's day. Throughout the seventeenth century, fundamentalist religion became very powerful in England and even overthrew the monarchy, and it is religious fundamentalists who generally are frightened of witches.

Well, Macduff was getting revenge for his wife and children who had been murdered by Macbeth. You might call that retributive.

Macbeth is Macduff's enemy. The three witches told Macbeth to beware of Macduff, and Macbeth responded by ordering the deaths of Macduff and all the members of his household. Macduff had already fled to England, however, so Macduff's wife, children, and servants were killed but he wasn't. When Macduff found out, he set out to get revenge.

No, Banquo wasn't responsible for his own death. It was that unfortunate case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time and knowing the wrong person at the wrong time. His friend and fellow General Macbeth [d. August 15, 1057] was ragingly ambitious. Macbeth accepted the witches' predictions of his promotions to Thane of Cawdor and to King as the facts of his life, the rights to which he was entitled, and the shape of his destiny. He wanted to consolidate his rule. The minute he learned that Banquo's family line ultimately would take over the throne, Macbeth turned his friend into an enemy to be eliminated as soon as possible.

According to the play 'Macbeth', King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040] was set to be murdered in his bed. He was an overnight guest of Macbeth [d. August 15, 1057], at Inverness Castle. The King had dinner, and was ready to go to sleep. He only had two royal guards nearby. He undoubtedly was tired from the journey, and needed a good night's sleep before his departure early the following morning. He was isolated, poorly protected, and vulnerable. It was an opportune situation for Macbeth to get away with murder with his wife's help.

Banquo's talk with Fleance was significant for the explicit concern over the violence of nature, and the implied concern over the witches' predictions. In Act 2 Scene 1 of the Shakespearean play, Banquo met with his son in the courtyard of Macbeth's castle at Inverness. He let Fleance know of his trouble sleeping. He was plagued with a concern over the uproar in nature, and the darkness of the night and of his own thoughts. It was possible that Banquo was tempted by the power that would be his as father to a long royal line. He also might have been considering what he could do to make the Scottish crown and throne his as well as those of his descendants. In Lines 8-9, he prayed for deliverance from the 'cursed thoughts that nature/Gives way to in repose!'

Macduff was first to find out about the murders of King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040] and the two royal guards. He stopped by the Macbeths' home at Inverness Castle. He previously had arranged with the King to pick him up and accompany him to the next stop on the royal journey. The nobleman Lennox was with him. But only Macduff went to Duncan's room. There, he found bloodied corpses and bloodied crime scenes.