Macbeth

Lady Macbeth thinks Macbeth will not achieve power because he will not kill the King who he shall become (says the witches first prophecies). When he eventually does, Lady Macbeth is proven wrong. So shame on herself!

Although this is not a historical event, within the context of the play, Banquo was killed while having a horseback ride near the castle or palace where Macbeth was holding his supper party. He was close enough to the castle that he and Fleance had dismounted and were walking their horses. The text does not state which castle or palace it was; some editors have guessed it was Forres, but that is just a wild guess.

Macbeth was very real. He was king of Scotland for 17 years from 1040 to 1057. The original King Macbeth's name was actual Mac Bethad meaning Son of Bethad. There are all kinds of people with the surname Macbeth living now. Google "Ryan Macbeth" if you don't believe me. It's a real name.

Lady Macbeth knows that Macbeth is a good man, a worthy, noble, good soldier. But she feels that he is too full of the 'milk of human kindness' (i know its meant to be a good thing, but the is the most eviliest woman in English literature we are talking about) , when it comes to killing the king. She questions his manliness, saying she is more of a man than he is. This is how she manages to convince Macbeth to kill Duncan(the king).

Shakespeare makes use of simple puns for a variety of effects. "King. Fair and noble hostess, we are your guest tonight," (54) for example, establishes primarily dramatic irony, or, to be more specific, tragic irony. Because the words are directed at a woman, Lady Macbeth, our chauvinistic tendencies render the initial sense of the word "fair" as pertaining to beauty. Also, this is a particularly Petrarchan word-if any word can be said to be particularly any body's-which supplements our initial definition. But it is in reference to the second clause and particularly the word "guest" that the pun comes to light, for guesthoodaccommodates certain expectations, and it is in these expectations that the subordinate meanings of "fair" are born. We realise-where the King does not, hence the tragic irony-that Lady Macbeth is far from "fair," which is to say just, honest, ethical. Of course, "fair" serves not only in its punish aspect, but also as an associative device connecting, once again, Lady Macbeth to the "Fair is foul" weird sisters. Lady Macbeth. [Reads] "They met me in the day of success; and I have learned by the perfect'st report they have more in them than mortal knowledge . . ." (50) In this letter from Macbeth, the effect is not so much dramatic irony as a delicate probing of character. The pun is on the word "mortal." The primary sense is "human": the weird sisters are possessors of knowledge outside the human realm. The secondary sense, though: "causing death," suggests at least an unconscious acknowledgement, on Macbeth's part, that the prophesy not only means death, but will, since the knowledge is causing death, itself lead to both murder and Macbeth's own spiritual and eventually physical death. There is a further pun in this same epistle: "Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it . . ." (50) This pun, in "Rapt," makes use of the homonym. Because of the context established by the "mortal" pun, it presents Macbeth wrapped in the potential of the weird sisters' prophecy as in a shroud.

young siward was slain in the attempt to murder macbeth.

art thou afeared / to be the same in thine own act and valour / as thou art in desire?

When Macbeth starts having second thoughts about killing the king, Duncan, Lady Macbeth questions his manhood and says he is a coward. She says she would have killed her own baby rather than break a promise such as the one Macbeth made her (to kill Duncan). She also says that her love for him from that time onwards will depend on whether he kills the king or not.

Macbeth is about a Scottish man who is lord of Glamis. He meets three witches who makes a prophecy. The prophecies were that he is a lord of Glamis, he will be lord of Cawdor and he will be king.
It is a play by Shakespeare.
He kills various people such as king Duncan, Macduff's wife and children and Banquo, in order to gain power after he met some witches who told him he would be king.

In Act 1 Scene 3, Banquo and Macbeth differed in their reactions to the witches, and to the realization of part of their predictions. Banquo was skeptical and somewhat jokingabout the witches. Macbeth was increasingly attracted to and interested in what the witches had to say. Banquo was shocked and cautious about the realization of one of the predictions, in Macbeth's becoming the Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth became ever more ambitious in making the promise of kingship turn out, and ever more aggressive in pursuit of that promise.

Lady M. Out, damned spot! out, I say! One; two: why, then, 'tis time to do 't. Hell is murky! Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?

The spirits conjured by the witches told Macbeth that he would never be defeated until Birnam Wood came against him at Dunsinane. Macbeth figured that this was impossible--what? was the forest going to uproot itself and march across the country? Well, no, but people could cut down the trees and carry them to Dunsinane and that is just what Malcolm's army does. When he sees that, Macbeth sees that the prophecy is coming true after all.

They knock out the king's bodyguards with a Mickey Finn and and frame them for the crime and then execute them before they have a chance to defend themselves. Later, Macbeth suggests that they were in the pay of the King's sons who had the best motive for the crime.

A paradox is an event or image that appears to be in contradiction to the laws of physics; in other words, the writer is describing something that is physically impossible in order to make a point or highlight a particular situation. Water flowing uphill is a common paradox. In Robert Burn's poem, "My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose," he uses paradox to describe his loyalty, stating that he will love his sweetheart until "all the seas run dry and rocks melt with the sun." Since neither of these events are possible, he is implying that his love is neverending.

he felt disgusted by them and thought he needed them

There is no "goddess of which craft" in the play Macbeth. There are however 3 witches which appear early in the play as prophets who hail Macbeth, the general and prophesy his ascent to king hood.

The most important way in which the film differs from the play is the addition of a famous scene known as "Coffee's For Closers" written by Mamet involving a character named Blake, written specifically for Alec Baldwin. Blake gives the main characters a more immediate motivation for selling real estate - namely that their jobs are on the line. The scenes that show Shelley going to visit an uninterested potential client were added for the film. Some of his phone conversations are added as well. The additions add an even deeper sense of sad desperation for Lemmon's character than appeared in the original play. The film also differs in geographic location. While the play's original references to the Chicago area remain intact throughout, the film credits list it as having been filmed "on location" in http://www.answers.com/topic/new-york-city-of-southern-new-york. As such, there are some scenes which do refer to New York, such as the opening scene, in which the pay phone Shelley Levene (Lemmon) uses clearly reads "New York." Also, George Aaronow (Arkin) comments to Shelley, "I had a woman in White Plains on the hook ...," an obvious reference to http://www.answers.com/topic/white-plains-new-york. The final scene also features a subway car with "Sheepshead Bay" (as in http://www.answers.com/topic/sheepshead-bay-brooklyn, http://www.answers.com/topic/brooklyn) as the destination. The scene in which Pacino's character arrives at the office clearly shows an http://www.answers.com/topic/new-york-city-police-department squad car. However, when Shelley engages in conversation in one scene he twice says "Kenilworth" - which is the name of both an affluent Chicago suburb on the north shore of Lake Michigan and a middle class New York City suburb in http://www.answers.com/topic/union-county-new-jersey. David Mamet also altered the original ending of the movie. In the play, Roma flatters Shelley and suggests that the two work together. Then, when Shelley leaves the room, Roma turns on Shelley and reveals that his flattery was only a con to get a share of Shelley's sales. In the movie, this last-second turn is omitted, and Roma's flattery is assumed to be sincere.

Macbeth: all hail Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis all hail Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor all hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter Banquo: hail hail hail lesser than Macbeth, and greater not so happy, yet much happier thou shall get kings, though thou be none

Macbeth didn't want to fight Macduff, because he didn't want to add any more bloodied casualties to the Fife Castle massacre body count. In Act 4 Scene 2, Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057] had Macduff's entire family and household massacred at the Macduffs' home of Fife Castle. In Act 5 Scene 8, Macduff finally caught up with Macbeth and challenged him to fight. Macbeth didn't want to fight for two reasons. The reason that he didn't reveal was the witches' warning to beware of Macduff. The reason that he did reveal was the weight on his soul from having ordered the Fife Castle massacre.

We know that Duncan is dead and must soon be discovered. The comic interlude with the Porter delays that discovery. We want to know what will happen when the murder is discovered and the scene postpones that knowledge, creating suspense. Of course, the real reason for the scene is to give the actors playing the Macbeths a chance to change and clean up. Some of Shakespeare's most famous scenes are for just such practical purposes.

In Act 4 Scene 1, the three witches warned Macbeth to beware of Macduff. They also assured him that he was undefeatable except under two circumstances. One was the movement of Birnam Wood to Dunsinane Castle. The other was the power of a man not born of woman. In Act 5 Scene 6, Macbeth was told by a Messenger of the movement of Birnam Wood toward Dunsinane Castle. But Macbeth wasn't worried. His biggest fear was of the man not born of woman. In Act 5 Scene 9, Macbeth and Macduff found themselves on the same part of the battlefield outside of Dunsinane Castle. Macbeth still wasn't worried. But his worries began with a surprise piece of news from Macduff. Macduff explained that he had been delivered by Caesarian section from a dead mother. Therefore, he was delivered, not born. Neither was he born of woman. Instead, he was born of a corpse.

He fears that if he gains the throne by force, it can be taken from him by force. "We do but teach bloody instruction which, being taught, returns to plague the inventor. This even-handed justice commends the ingredience of our poison'd chalice to our own lips". This fear becomes the dominating motivation of his life.

In the end it is Malcolm who finally slays Macbeth. No! Rubbish! Malcolm is a useless soldier and couldn't kill Macbeth if Macbeth were tied hand and foot. It was Macduff, the man "not of woman born", who kills Macbeth.

In the Shakespearean play, Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057] saw visions on his second visit to the witches, in Act 4 Scene 1. The first vision was of an armed head, which warned him to beware of Macduff. The second vision was of a bloody child, which warned him of the greater powers of the man not born of woman. The third vision was of a crowned child who held a tree in his hand. That vision warned Macbeth of defeat with the movement of Birnam Wood to Dunsinane Castle. Additionally, the witches rounded up a fourth and last vision. The final vision was of eight kings. The last king held a mirror that showed even more kings. Banquo's ghost followed the vision. And so it was clear to Macbeth that the witches were reinforcing their prediction to Banquo, in Act 1 Scene 3: Banquo wouldn't be king, but he'd be the father of kings.