Macbeth

Who is killed by Macbeth in the final battle?

The young SIWARD was.

And his father asks whether he was wounded in the front or the back?

And what it seemed like was if he was killed in the back he must have run like a little wuss, but if he got wounded in the front that means he was fighting and trying to do something right.

Wrong play. The expression "pound of flesh" comes not from Macbeth but from The Merchant of Venice.

He feels traumatised, but he's encouraged by Lady Macbeth and his ambition for power.

Sunday Evening down at the pub

At first he is weary and unsure of if he should but then he does it which then begins his plans to kill off anyone who could take the throne.

he didnt do anything because he was a terrible king and he should have never became king.

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.

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.

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.

You need to specify which act of the play you are talking about.

No it is Lady Macbeth that smears the guards with blood because Macbeth does not want to go back, so she goes and does it instead.

because Lady Macbeth talks about the murder, and the Lady in waiting has no witness for her speech

a soldier in some wore sees 3 witches that tell him he will be king so his evil wife tells him to kill the king

Two men reigned as kings of Scotland in 'Macbeth'. With the play's end, a third was going to reign once he was crowned. The Shakespearean play began with the reign of King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040]. But throughout most of the play, the King was Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057]. The play ended with the killing and beheading of Macbeth by Macduff, and the preparations of the subsequent King Malcolm III [d. November 13, 1093] to be crowned at Scone. But the play's end wasn't backed up by the historical record. According to history, Macbeth was succeeded by his stepson, King Lulach [d. March 17, 1058]. Lady Macbeth's [b. c. 1015] son from her first marriage to Gille Coemgain [d. 1032] was succeeded by King Malcolm III, who was King Duncan I's elder son and the murderer of his two immediate royal predecessors.

Macbeth imagines a 'dagger of the mind' also referred to as a 'false creation' and 'fatal vision'. This floating dagger incites Macbeth, who was previously hesitant, to enter Duncan's chamber and 'bear the knife' against Duncan.

Killing Duncan has turned Macbeth into a paranoid. His "fears in Banquo stick deep"; he is afraid that he suspects him, and resents the prediction the witches made about him, that his children would be king. He hires two murderers to take Banquo and his son Fleance out, and sends a third to check up on the first two. The murderers jump Fleance and Banquo but only get Banquo.

Macbeth scene 6: Lennox suspects Macbeth, whom he calls a "tyrant," in the murders of Duncan and Banquo. The lord tells Lennox that Macduff has gone to England, where he will join Malcolm in pleading with England's King Edward for aid. News of these plots has prompted Macbeth to prepare for war. Lennox and the lord express their hope that Malcolm and Macduff will be successful and that their actions can save Scotland from Macbeth.

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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?

the cursed of macbeth was that she will curse witches

Macbeth kills Duncan in his own castle at night time.

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Get the guards drunk, stab the king, frame the guards.