Macbeth

According to the Shakespearean play, Macbeth [d. August 15, 1057] was beheaded. He lost his life during a sword fight with Macduff. Macduff mortally wounded Macbeth. He then cut off his head to show to the combined English and Scottish forces under the subsequent King Malcolm III [d. November 13, 1093]. Additionally, the Thane of Cawdor may have been beheaded. He was convicted of treachery to his king and his country. The punishment was execution. The means was unspecified. So it may have been by hanging, or by beheading.

She is talking about a spot of blood which she imagines she has on her hand. There isn't really such a spot, which is why she cannot wash it off. It represents her guilt for the murder of Duncan, which she cannot wash away.

This is the answer He is unable to feel pain at the thought of death and is exhausted from all of the bloodshed.

Malcolm's title is Prince of Cumberland. He is named Duncan's heir apparent. At the time, the eldest son was NOT automatically the next in line for the throne. Macbeth, as the most experienced and respected soldier, expects to be named, but Duncan passes him over for the feckless Malcolm.

During the play Claudius mentions numerous times that Norway would likely attack Denmark. Before the play, Denmark had taken much land from Norway and Hamlet Sr (Hamlet's father) killed the Norwegian King (Fortinbras' father).

Technically though, Norway never attacks Denmark, but the two can be considered to be on the brinks of war.

It should be noted Norway does attack and take land from Poland during the play.

According to another note on the same subject here on Wikianswers, (Why does Macbeth see Banquo's ghost?) it was believed at the time the play was written that a murderer could see the ghost of his victim. However in Macbeth it's open to interpretation- is there really a ghost there, or is it a figment of his imagination brought on by a guilty conscience?

Macbeth says "He's here in double trust" in Shakespeare's Macbeth. He is considering the possibility of assassinating his king, Duncan, so that he can ascend to the throne. He means that Duncan has two reasons to trust Macbeth: 1: He is "his kinsman and his subject," so he would naturally be repulsed by the idea of killing Duncan; 2: Macbeth is hosting the king in his home; Duncan would assume that Macbeth would be sheltering him because of this, so he would not suspect his host to be the murderer. The use of the word "trust" in this line is very good. When Shakespeare could just say "Duncan wouldn't suspect me for two reasons," he concisely presents the idea of a very natural trust that Duncan has in Macbeth, a trust which Macbeth is about to betray.

Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040] was the King of Scotland before Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057]. His reign began in 1034, when he succeeded his grandfather, King Malcolm II [d. November 25, 1034]. It ended in 1040, when Macbeth succeeded him as King.

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James i though that William Shakespears play Macbeth was very good, he was overwhelmed and pleased, he was that pleased that he sent him out a letter explaining how impressed he was with Shakespears play. This play pleased the king very immensely

Macbeth sees the ghost of the recently murdered Banquo.

There is a sort of conflict in Lady Macbeth's mind between what she wants to do (i.e. kill Duncan) and what she suspects rightly Macbeth will want to do (i.e. not kill Duncan). She therefore sets about persuading him to let her plan the murder, so she can overcome the objections she knows he will make.

"Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear."

She is saying "Come here, so that I can convince you this is what we should do. That all you have to do is kill Duncan, and we will be king and queen."

"I am afraid to think on what I have done; look on't again I dare not."

Yes, there are three versions of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. The First one is called the First Quarto, which appeared in 1603. It is thought to have been based on the recollections of an actor and differs considerably from the others in many places. It is also much shorter. The second Quarto came out the following year and is much more fully written. The First Folio of 1623 contained yet another version very similar to the Second hand Quarto but in some ways significantly different. Your printed version might be a quarto version or a folio version or what is called a conflation which contains as much text as possible from both versions.

Of course, the play has been adapted countless times both for stage and for film, sometimes to such an extent that it is barely recognizable. In Asta Nielsen's 1923 film Hamlet is a woman disguised as a man, pining for Horatio and fending off Ophelia, and calling on her old school chum Fortinbras for help. Each one of these might be counted as a "version" of the play.

Shakespeare was not the only person who wrote a play on the subject. There is a German play called Der Brudermord which may be a translation of an earlier English play. It has long been suspected that Thomas Kyd wrote a Hamlet play which may have been the basis of Shakespeare's.

yes he does

earlier in the play Lady Macbeth told her husband that a little water would wash away the blood and now here she is having night terrors about the "spot" that refuses to come out of her hands.

also during her little rambling fit she was saying that they are safe because their power will protect them from being found out yet she is going absolutely crazy because they aren't safe. they know what really happened and that's all that matters because as you can see her conscience is driving her to the point of insanity and in a few scenes she will end her own life.

because king Duncan looked alot like lady Macbeth's father.

They act without consulting her. This is because she is totally irrelevant to the plot, being a later addition probably after Shakespeare's death. So irrelevant is Hecate that her character is systematically cut out of every professional production of this play.

The saying, 'Fair is foul and foul is fair,' carries the general meaning of 'things are all mixed up.' It is typically used to denote a situation where conventional moral rules or guidelines are being used or interpreted in a contradictory or even immoral way.

The "black and deep desires" he is talking about is the temptation to hurry along Duncan's death so he can become king quicker. At this point because Duncan has nepotistically named his son as his favoured heir, and so it looks like Macbeth won't become king just by waiting for it. The temptation is to help the prophecy along.

Macbeth's dagger soliloquy creates atmosphere because a sinister and evil impression is given off of Macbeth and the fresh air that King Duncan stated about the castle has vanished, therefore creating a dark atmosphere.

Macbeth's plan was to murder fleance and banquo but it was not accomplished fully because fleance was able 2 escape

From this moment/The very firstlings of my heart shall be/The firstlings of my hand.

In the Shakespearean play, Banquo's ghost appeared three times to Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057]. He appeared twice in Act 3 Scene 4. He showed up just before Macbeth's invited guests for the post-coronation banquet were going to sit down. He took Macbeth's reserved seat.Then he left, so Macbeth could be seated. But he came back when Macbeth suggested a toast to the absent Banquo. In Act 4 Scene 1, Banquo's ghost appeared in response to the fortunetelling efforts of the three witches. He was in the fourth apparition that they called forth for Macbeth. In the last apparition, he followed a long line of kings of whom the last carried a mirror showing an even longer royal line. The final apparition was meant to validate the witches' earlier prediction of Banquo's family line taking over the throne of Scotland.