Macbeth

Macbeth turns them against Banquo by reminding them that they have been placed inferior in position by Banquo and that they should not let him get a way with it. Second he tells them that Banquo is a threat to himself as king and therefore should be rid of.

Some of them desert him. That's what the doctor says he will do. But not all of them desert. He still has faithful Seyton (should that be pronounced like Satan?)

He is stunned, in shock. He says, "She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word." He is unable to deal with it and all he can say at this time is that he wished it had not happened when it did. :Later we get to see the devastating emptiness of Macbeth's life without his wife.

Most people believe that Shakespeare used the witches and other elements of the supernatural in the play "Macbeth" because a. it added a dramatic effect to the play and b. the new monarch at that time (James I) was very interested in the supernatural. So Shakespeare probably used this play to impress the king! Also, around the time that Shakespeare was writing this play, a lot of people were persecuted for being "witches", so you could think of "Macbeth" as an early form of satire!

Yes, the Shakespearean play 'Macbeth' was a study of evil. William Shakespeare [Baptized April 26, 1564-April 23, 1616] told the story of a good man who went bad. He showed that evil begat such evil that there ultimately was nothing decent left within Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057] other than his outstandingly heroic courage under fire. Evil was represented by the three witches. The way in which evil entered Macbeth's life was by his tragic flaws of raging ambition just barely held in check, and of manipulability. Macbeth's manipulability was represented by his Lady [b. c. 1015], for whom selfish ends required foul means. Foul means weren't discarded once the Macbeths had realized the Scottish crown and throne at any price and royal rule within their lifetime. The murder of King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040] expanded to the murder of the two royal guards. The murder of Banquo expanded to the Fife Castle massacre of Macduff's entire family and household. Those first steps of murderous disdain for the lives and properties of personal acquaintances led to a bloodied 17-year journey in which all Scotland bled.

You must be talking about when Macduff discovers that Duncan has been murdered, and Lady M shows up in her nightie wondering what happened. This is the only time the two of them are on stage at the same time. MacDuff says, "The repetition, in a woman's ear, would murder as it fell."It sounds likehe thinks that if he tells her that the king is lying in a pool of blood upstairs, she will die of fright/shock/embarassment. This is of course ridiculous if you know anything about Lady Macbeth. But Macduff doesn't really believe it anyway since he immediately thereafter says to Banquo "O, Banquo, Banquo, our royal master's murder'd!" while Lady Macbeth is standing right there.

Clearly there is some kind of silly custom here that you cannot tell a woman bad news toher face, but it is OK to let her overhear when you tell someone else.

In any case, Lady Macbeth's next remark "What, in our house?" is telling and takes Macduff and Banquo aback. The king has been killed and she is worried about stains on the carpet.

Lady Macbeth sends everyone home early because she is afraid of what Macbeth might say.

Macbeth is about Scotland; King James was born in Scotland. A character in Macbeth, Fleance, is supposed to be James's ancestor. There are witches in the play and James wrote a book about witches. (However, the tone of his book and the tone of the witches in the play is quite different.) The guy who wrote the play was a member of the theatrical company of which James was the patron. Those are the only connections which are supported by evidence.

The nave is the navel, and the chaps are the chops, the chin and jaw. If you have ever cut apart the seam which holds two parts of a piece of clothing together, you know what "unseamed" means--cut wide open. He cut Macdonweald wide open from his navel to his chin. Then he cut off his head and fixed it upon the battlements. The battlements are the outside wall of the castle. Fixed does not mean "repaired" here; it means "affixed" or "stuck". His head was stuck on the top of the wall.

That's an interesting question. I think in the play it is just meant to be a prediction, but of course any time you predict something, then you have the chance of affecting the outcome. Anyone who hears the prediction and who changes their actions because of it could be said to be fulfilling the prophecy, or to be causing it. How much does the prediction actually cause the prediction to happen? I don't think that it is something that we can ever answer and be sure of the answer.

Ambition. Like all of Shakespaer's characters ech one had a quality about them that would usually be good but ends up being their downfall in the end. A major character defect. Also, Lady Macbeth thinks he's too kind to be able to kill Duncan at the beginning.

Fleance escapes as his father, Benquo is killed.

In Act 2 Scene 3, the murdered corpse of King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040] was discovered by Macduff. Those who were present at Inverness Castle reacted in different ways to the shocking news. For example, the King's sons, the future Kings Malcolm III [d. November 13, 1093] and Donald III [d. 1099], were suspicious of the circumstances of the crime and feared similar violent repercussions on themselves as the sovereign's sons and heirs apparent. They chose to flee. Donalbain, who became King Donald III, escaped to Ireland. Malcolm relocated to England.

Lady Macbeth totally sucks Macbeth's dick right now.

In the play, Lady Macbeth's ambition was to become Queenalongside her husband Macbeth as King. She revealed that ambition, in Act 2 Scene 1, while reading the letter from her husband about the predictions of the three witches. She further revealed that ambition in her two conversations with Macbeth before he ended up killing his sovereign. She let him know that there was no backing down and no retreating from anything other than the king's death at her husband's hands.

Terrible. He wishes he hadn't done it. "I am afraid to think what I have done", "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?", "Wake Duncan with thy knocking; I wish thou couldst!" are some of the things he says that confirm this.

I am guessing that the interchange is that one in 2,2 as follows:

Lady M: Did you not speak?

Macbeth: When?

Lady M: Now.

Macbeth: As I descended?

Lady M: Ay.

Macbeth Hark! Who lies in the second chamber?

Lady M: Donalbain.

Macbeth: This is a sorry sight.

The conversation is usually performed very rapidly with the words almost tumbling over each other. The characters are trying to answer each other but Macbeth is distracted by his own thoughts. Lady M has heard a voice, and wants to find out about it, but she never gets an answer. Macbeth asks who is sleeping in Room 210, but when he gets his answer he does not explain why he asked it but goes on to talk about his bloody hands. They are nervous, their thoughts (and we assume their hearts) are racing to the extent that they are incoherent. Their nervous tension gets communicated to the audience.

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It's not so much a double meaning as a waffle. Saying "He did appoint so" is like saying, "That was the plan"--it smooths over the question of whether that plan will succeed, particularly when you know, as Macbeth does, that it won't. He's talking with half his attention, because he is waiting for Macduff to come screaming out of Duncan's bedroom any second. He is not paying enough attention to invent a full-blown lie, so he uses this weaselly response instead.

It basically means that Lady Macbeth is asking spirits for help to take away her feminity and replace it with masculine features such as strength because she thinks men are more powerful and stronger and it will be easier for her to commit a crime without feeling any guilt

The doctor recognizes that Lady Macbeth's problems are mental, not physical, and that psychiatric science had not advanced so far that he could treat it. He cannot "minister to a mind diseas'd"; "therein the patient must minister to himself."

Read the question you are mindlessly copying before posting it here. There are no "following statements."