Macbeth

Brave Macbeth

The quote is said by one of the weird sisters in the play Macbeth as they brew up evil spirits and invite Hecate to attend, in anticipation of Macbeth's desperate arrival to hear his fate from them. Macbeth finds the weird sisters in a cave and he immediately sees that they are doing something unearthly and greets them with "How now you black and secret midnight hags?". Means > I greet you, what are you doing evil women?

One of the weird sisters replies to him, " ...a deed without a name".

This means that they are meddling with unearthly spirits and evil of the most unearthly kind. A deed (act) which is SO evil that it has no words or earthly definition to describe it. It is beyond evil, beyond earthly good and evil. It is evil and madness beyond any human comprehension and even beyond words or description. A deed without a name.

be careful what you ask for.

His son Fleance. "How goes the night boy?" is the first line of the scene.

At the banquet when Macbeth begins acting unusual due to seeing Banquo's ghost, Lady Macbeth tells the guests to leave him alone. She says that he often has fits like this, ever since he was young, and says that they should just ignore him and he'll be fine.

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No, King Duncan hugged Banquo, because he says "Let me enfold thee in my arms" to Banquo. But it's really up to the director if he or she wants Macbeth to hug Duncan also.

Simile

When Malcolm is named heir to the throne.

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Well, Banquo's mind does not appear to be full of scorpions as Macbeth says his is.

She questions his manhood. Assaults his courage and brags about that if she made a vow to do something, she would follow through and not step down to being a coward. In this way, Macbeth finally sees things her way and thus makes him change his mind to go through with the plan.

"Malcolm and Donalbain, the king's two sons, are stol'n away and fled, which puts upon them suspicion of the deed."

The Prince of Cumberland is a title Duncan gives to his son Malcolm. It, like the Prince of Wales, signifies that the person who gets it is the heir apparent to the throne. By giving the title to Malcolm, Duncan makes it less likely that Macbeth will inherit the throne from him.

Macbeth views this as a stumbling-block which will prevent the witches' prophecy from coming true.

It means that "murder has become unrestrained" i.e. killings are mounting up and seemingly out of control.

He asks where Macbeth was and what he was doing.

Macduff

"This dead butcher and his fiendlike queen" Nice, eh.

In persuading the two murders to murder Banquo, Macbeth repeatedly compares them to dogs. See Act 3, Scene 1, lines 91-107.

Also, there are many uses of birds in metaphors.

He dreamed of the three witches, and then confided in Macbeth about his dreams. Macbeth replied that he hadn't thought of the three weird sister, which was a lie.

Macbeth was very brave at war, therefore he deserves the title of a noble, brave and worthy man. Macbeth and Banquo both won the war and were great soldiers too. All of these factors link into the reasons why Macbeth is referred to as brave. It is stated by the captain.

Macbeth is based on a real Scottish King. Shakespeare got the idea for his play Macbeth from reading a book called Holinshed's Chronicles, which contains the plot pretty much as Shakespeare wrote it. Shakespeare did not change it to try and flatter King James, who was the King at the time this play was performed. The story was like that in Holinshed, because Holinshed's sources had changed it to flatter King James's ancestors.

no he wouldn't have. if it weren't for his wife he wouldn't have either because when they first told him all he would become he said let it happen on it's own, if it's meant to be let it be. but then his wife was all like oh grow a pair your not a man kill Duncan and we can be king and queen and so ya...

Macbeth is first 'Thane of Glamis'

then he is bestowed the title 'Thane of Cawdor'

then king of Scotland