Macbeth

Macduff isn't going to Macbeth's coronation because he suspects that Macbeth had something to do with King Duncan's Murder.

In 'Macbeth,' prior to the war, Macbeth is given prophecies which he considers make him pretty much invincible. However, the prophecies have hidden meaning. For example, he is told that he will have trouble only if Birnam Woods come to him. Macbeth feels its impossible for the woods to come after him. However, the oncoming soldiers take branches from the wood to use as camouflage. He is also told that no man born of woman can kill him. Again, he thinks all men are born of women, so he's invincible. However, right before Macduff cuts off Macbeth's head, he tells him he was basically ripped from his mother's body by Caesarian section.

The answer is ; Art not without ambition, But without/The illness should attend it.

They persauded Macbeth to kill people only because they wanted to be benefited. they were selfish and not worrying that they would soon turn Macbeth into a crazed lunatic

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The witches delighted in chaos and toil. They did not tell Macbeth what to do but they simply showed him what can happen through their prophecies and the apparitions they showed to Macbeth. Macbeth could've been a perfect target for them to bring about this chaos. Macbeth is a strong soldier, he has killed enemies in war, and perhaps the witches knew his true nature("by the prickling of my thumb, something wicked this way comes..."). The extent of their influenced is demonstrated through their predictions, they are temptations and a form of flattery which Macbeth eventually gave into.

On one hand, Lady Macbeth has the far greater influence because she is Macbeth's wife and they share a passionate relationship together. Just like the witches she flatters him, but this time it is a direct flattery and a direct temptation towards him. As far as Macbeth being changed into a diffrent person, he himself is responsible for his own actions. The final decision lies within him and this was demonstrated when he carried out the murder of King Duncan.

Lady Macbeth acts as the catalyst for Macbeth. Macbeth realised that he would have to commit regicide (stars, hide your fires; let light not see my deep and black desires), but he was unwilling to do so. Lady Macbeth changes his mind by attacking his manhood, despite the brave acts he has commited as a soldier. She also flatters him shamelessly. The murder of Duncan sets Macbeth on the trail of evil, as he didn't consult his wife when he killed Banquo and Macduff's family. He didn't even care when she commited suicide.

The witches represent the Three Fates in Greek Mythology. they connotate destiny, fate, etc. They delight and thrive in chaos and toil. In my opinion, the witches represent the primeval human emotions of hate and wickedness. They are all that is wrong with humanity.

They also bring a supernatural theme in the play. The witches do not seem human, as when Banquo says they look like women, yet their beards defys this theory. They have not the power to kill, only manipulate. In laymans terms,They can tell you the stuff you wanna hear, to bring you down. :)

They also help Macbeth, as they awaken his dark amibitions, and a unsatiable will to 'claim the golden round' (the crown). The witches also seem to befriend Macbeth as one of them, saying that he is a 'wayward child'. They also seemed to know his true nature- ' by the prickling of my thumb, someTHING (not someONE, suggesting that he has lost his humanity and personality) wicked this way comes.

Duncan's death technically occurs off-stage, in Act 2 between Scenes 1 and 2. Macbeth states at the end of 1.1 "I go, and it is done. The bell invites me./Here it not, Duncan, for it is a knell/That summons thee to heaven or to hell." (1.1.63-65) When 2.2 opens, Macbeth has already killed Duncan, and is giving the news to Lady Macbeth.

Macbeth was told that he would not be killed by someone "born"... and believing that every "person" was "born" he thought he couldn't be killed. However, later it is discovered that one of his enemies was "ripped from his mother's womb".

There are mostly upper class persons in this play, and some lower class ones as well.

Upper-class characters include: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Banquo, Fleance, Macduff and his family, Ross, Lennox, Siward, Young Siward, Menteith. Lower-class characters include: servants, murderers, The Porter. There is only one middle-class character: the doctor who is called to attend on Lady Macbeth. The witches are not of this world, and so have no social standing at all.

You may think from what your English teacher told you that characters are upper class because they speak in Iambic Pentameter. It doesn't work that way. The characters speak iambic pentameter because they are upper class. When Lady Macbeth has her sleepwalking scene and starts talking in rambling prose, her social status does not change as a result; she is still the queen and so is still upper class no matter how she speaks.

Banquo is killed but his son, Fleance, escapes :)

Macbeth has "black and deep desires" regarding dutchman's son and heir, malcolm.

It is external conflict...internal conflict is when something is bothering you on the inside, yes the murder of Banquo eats away at his conscious but he physically sees Banquo therefore making the conflict external.

I believe she dies from insanity as her "final action" because after being so stable and manly about all the murders she's made her husband do she finally cracks and completely loses it and dies from lack of sleep, hallucinations, and just pure guilt.

I hope it helped. Good luck!

18, 119 words. . . I think..

If you include all of the character's names and other stage directions it's exactly 18,307 words.

Banquo: What are these, so withered and wild in their attire that they look not like the inhabitants o' the earth and yet are on't? . . . You seem to understand me, by each at onceher choppy finger laying upon her skinny lips; you should be women, yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so.

In the play, the character of Macbeth is important to the politics of Scotland because he is the king's cousin and a strong candidate to succeed him as king, which is why he is in fact chosen when Duncan's sons do a bunk. If you are asking why the play Macbeth has political importance, the answer is that it is pretty much politically correct, in flattering the current monarch. However, the play, unlike Shakespeare's Richard II, was not known to have been used by anyone for any political purposes, and indeed the indications are that it was not popular with either the people or the court at the time, so its political value, if any, was negligible.

His fate is already predicted and he is led on by his wife to commit deeds to consolidate his power as king. He kills the king, kills his best friend, and Macduff's family, which all contribute to his mental detirioration.

It's shown from the first signs of him planning to kill Duncan; he just isn't brave enough, and this could be a sign that Macbeth just isn't the kind of man capable of remaining sane after murderer; ironic because he's just come back from killing an army of Norweigans.

lady macbeth, as she was driven to madness and committed suicide

macbeth did not suffer as much as he was not driven to suicide

^^^^this is just an opinion^^^^^

This question seems to be the root of much debate. I think you should personally explore each character; put yourself in their shoes, so to speak. If you were that character, would the suffering be immense or conquerable?

Perhaps the question you should ask is who more easily succumbed to the pull of evil? (This question is a hard one as well!)

Hope this helps!

Banquo had three prophecies:

1. "You are lesser than Macbeth but also greater."

2. "You are not as happy as Macbeth, yet much happier."

3. "Your descendants will be kings but you will not."

Hopefully that helps!

She would kill her own child . "I have given suck, and know how tender 'tis to love the baby that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, and dash'd the brains out, had I sworn." (Act 1, scene 7, line 59-64)

In the play, Macbeth as king fights his last battle against Macduff, thane of Fife. Macduff kills and beheads Macbeth. The battle takes place near Macbeth's royal castle at Dunsinane. But according to the Chronicles by Raphael Holinshed [d. 1580], King Macbeth was wounded during the battle of Lumphanan against the forces of the future King Malcolm III [d. November 13, 1093]. He died from those injuries a few days later, on August 15, 1057, about 60 miles away, in Scone where he had been crowned in 1040. King Macbeth was buried in the royal burial ground for kings of Scotland, Norway, and Ireland just off the west coast of Scotland, on the island of Iona. Also named Saint Columba's Island, the isle was the last resting place of King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040], who had had King Macbeth's father killed and whom King Macbeth in turn had killed in battle.

I believe Macbeth feels threatened of Banquo.

During act 4, Banquo is astonished of how the prophecy's about Macbeth have come true, and wonders if what the 3 ugly sisters (3 witches) predicted for him, will also come true - that his sons will become king. Macbeth is threatended by, this is because he wants to be king for a long as possible and then wants the position as king to pass down through generation in his family. Therefore because of this, Banquo and his son fleance is in his way/ path of what he wants and so he decides to plan h is murder.

The news from Angus and Ross was received with distrust by Banquo and with disbelief by Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057]. In Act 1 Scene 3 of the Shakespearean play, the three witches greeted Macbeth as Thane of Glamis, which he already was; Thane of Cawdor, which he didn't know himself to be; and King of Scotland, which he knew that he wasn't. They then disappeared as quickly as they had appeared. Next, the noble Scotsmen Angus and Ross showed up with surprising news. They told Macbeth of his being granted the vacated earthly title and possessions of the Thane of Cawdor. Banquo essentially made the distrustful observation that the Devil wasn't in the truthtelling business. As he later explained, mortals needed to worry when supernaturals made their nefarious presence and actions known. In contrast, Macbeth was taken aback by the improbability of the situation. The last thing that he knew, Cawdor was alive. He additionally might have been disbelieving of the news that King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040] would have given him such a powerful noble title and such a profitable possession. The King mightn't have been known to share. After all, he found a 'thank you' sufficient for Banquo's role in saving Scotland from invaders and traitors

Macduff believes that Macbeth killed King Duncan and thus doesn't believe Macbeth should be king. This is evident in the fact that while Macbeth goes to Scone, Macduff finds Malcolm and convinces him to reclaim the throne.

The play is loosely based on the life of a real Scottish King, who died in about 1057, so the setting of the play is before or around that date

Scholars believe that the play is most likely dated between 1603 and 1606. For more info on Macbeth and in depth discussion, see the Answers.com Macbeth page - http://www.answers.com/topic/macbeth

The message that the messenger brings to lay Macbeth is that the King (Duncan) is coming tonight and her reaction to this was that she wished that she had more time to plan out what she was going to do. <3 VLA BLOWS

"Thou'rt mad to say it:

Is not thy master with him? who, were't so,

Would have inform'd for preparation." - Lady Macbeth

Technically Macbeth only murdered Duncan in the begining and young siward at the end. Then he had the murderers go to kill Fleance and his father. Fleance escaped so he wouldn't count, and Macbeth also had the murders go to kill the Thane of Fife (macduff) and ends up only having the family killed. Macbeths wife in the end dies of what no one really knows but it can be argued that he was the cause of her death. He also slays young siward before macduff challenges him. So it really depends on how you look at it. If you want to know how many he killed with his own hands then 2.