Macbeth

Hecate beleives that macbeth did it for a subtstational number of people. The unconditional love that Macbeth gave his family as a child showed that their status in his life were much greater than it had first appeared

He means that he has been given a crown with essentially no meaning as Banquo's son will be the one to take over the throne, no son of Macbeth will ever continue on the crown

Macbeth kills them as soon as he sees them. He can't have anyone left who knows he killed Duncan.

Those are three lines from Act 1 Scene 3. The line numbers in Shakespeare's plays are put in afterwards by editors which means that different editions have different line numbers. Check your own edition to see what it says there (if anything).

He is a baby, not yet hatched. He also calls him a "fry", a baby fish.

After she has gone crazy, she is observed sleepwalking by a doctor and a servant. She carries a light and the doctor asks where she got it. The servant replies, "Why, it stood by her; she has light by her continually; 'tis her command."

Dramatically, it establishes the lengths to which she is prepared to go (or thinks she is prepared to go) in order to get the crown. The audience now knows her to be ruthless and evil. They will modify that opinion later but for now it will colour the audience's understanding of all the scenes between the Macbeths until Macduff discovers Duncan's body.

Whether the character thinks she will benefit from it is hard to say. Does she really believe in the evil spirits she is invoking? Or is it just a turn of phrase? Director's call, probably.

Basically, a huge army is going to attack his castle. MacDuff hopes to be the guy who will fight with Macbeth so he can kill him and get revenge for his wife and children. It's not really a plan.

Malcolm, in Act IV Scene 3

Well, he didn't directly have second thoughts of killing the king and he also does not tell his wife. Overall, he only questions the impact of the witches on him as he ends up realizing the mistakes that he made and how everything basically went up in flames.

She is trying to encourage Macbeth, who has been acting very strangely since killing Duncan. She says, "a little water clears us of this deed" implying that once the blood is washed off, they need never worry about the murder again. This is an ironic foreshadowing of the sleepwalking scene.

"The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures" implies that they cannot fight back. Macbeth refuses to go back to the room where the murdered Duncan lies, and Lady Macbeth is telling him in her usual contemptuous way that he has nothing to be afraid of.

This is the reference to a bird in Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 5:

"The raven himself is hoarse

That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan

Under my battlements."

Ravens have many symbolic meanings, both positive and negative, but in this case it seems clear that she is using a raven as a symbol or harbinger of death.

Macduff. He was born by Caesarian section which apparently doesn't count.

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He wants to prevent Banquo's son from becoming king as the witches predicted

(Apex)

She wants to kill Duncan and what do you know? he shows up at her front door. Well, that is going to make things easy.

The last thing he sees is Banquo and all his royal descendants. Well, he asked for it.

Macbeth's doubts were about the consequences of his deeds in this world. There was also doubt about the deed from his obligations as kinsman and host of Duncan.

Apparently ethos means "the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution." Some definitions talk about "the spirit of an age". My question then becomes "whose ethos are we looking for: Macbeth's? Duncan's? Scotland's? the eleventh century's? the seventeenth century's? aristocrats'?"

To tell you true, I don't think it makes much sense to talk about the ethos of a person unless it is an artificial and flat character like Snidely Whiplash or one of the Power Rangers. Good characters and all real people do not have a single "distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs". They are much more complex than that.

Groups or institutions are easier, as they are often formed for a particular purpose, like a glee club or museum, or around certain definable beliefs, like religious bodies and political parties (sometimes). But you cannot talk about the ethos of a nation like Scotland without sounding silly. What are you going to say? The distinguishing characteristic of Scotsmen is that they come from Scotland. Period. That's the ethos. As soon as you start adding in stuff about being parsimonious, you are well down the road to racism.

Talking about "the spirit of an age" is maybe more coherent, because certain attitudes are typical (but of course not universal, and perhaps not even held by the majority) in particular times. Talking about paranoia and an obsession with conformity as the ethos of the United States in the 1950s does explain such things as Joseph McCarthy.

There is in Shakespeare's political plays, of which Macbeth is one, a strong endorsement of the notion of a hereditary monarchy. Invariably when people slip away from this idea in Shakespeare's plays, trouble and grief ensue (well, perhaps not invariably. Arguably Titus Andronicus is a counter-example). Macbeth caused chaos, not so much by murdering Duncan, but by assuming the throne when Duncan had two sons available. The ethos of the seventeenth century when Shakespeare was writing included a strong endorsement of the principle of hereditary monarchy. After the Wars of the Roses, who could blame them? However, and curiously, this idea was not part of the ethos of the eleventh century when the real Macbeth lived--at that time, Macbeth would have been the natural successor to Duncan, being a great warrior in sharp contrast to the feckless Malcolm. Eleventh-century Scotsmen were not great believers in hereditary monarchy.

Daggers is the nickname for the Dagenham and Redbridge football club.

"Go get some water, and wash this filthy witness from your hand." In other words, she is trying to distract him.

The word Gordon does not appear in Macbeth or any of Shakespeare's works.

The term used when anyone is alone on the stage and speaks is soliloquy. Macbeth has a dandy soliloquy in act 1 scene 7 when he comes onto the stage alone and says, "If it were done when 'tis done, it were well it were done quickly."

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