Macbeth

1) Macbeth taking his own fate into his own hands

2) Macbeth believing the withes' advice

Lady Macbeth was devious and sneaky. She welcomed King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040] into Inverness Castle where she and Macbeth made their home. She acted the good hostess. But the entire time she was planning and setting into motion plans that would deprive the King and his two royal guards of their lives. Her husband temporarily was dissuaded from the plot by his obligations as beneficiary, cousin, host, and subject; and by the king's reputation and the opinions of others. But such wasn't the case with his wife. Nothing derailed her from her ambitions: not the responsibilities of beneficence, kinship, reception, or Scotsmanship. Not even diamonds from the King stopped her.

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth seemed to bring out [B] the worst in each other. They both suffered from raging, uncontrollable ambition. Additionally, Macbeth easily could be manipulated, and his wife liked to manipulate.

Greed is the accumulation of possessions in excess. A prime example in the Shakespearean play is the greedy grasp for the kingship that Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057] and his Lady [b. c. 1015] show. It isn't enough that Macbeth is General to the King's Army and Thane of Cawdor. When he becomes Thane of Cawdor, he immediately considers the crown that the three witches predict will be his. It doesn't matter that King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040] makes it clear that his elder son, the future King Malcolm III [d. November 13, 1093], is being groomed to succeed him on the job. And Macbeth's Lady is the same way. The powerful Cawdor title and the profitable, wealthy Cawdor possessions aren't an end. They become the means to a royal end.

=The brave, noble general whose children, according to the witches' prophecy, will inherit the Scottish throne. Like Macbeth, Banquo thinks ambitious thoughts, but he does not translate those thoughts into action. In a sense, Banquo's character stands as a rebuke to Macbeth, since he represents the path Macbeth chose not to take: a path in which ambition need not lead to betrayal and murder. Appropriately, then, it is Banquo's ghost-and not Duncan's-that haunts Macbeth. In addition to embodying Macbeth's guilt for killing Banquo, the ghost also reminds Macbeth that he did not emulate Banquo's reaction to the witches' prophecy.=

Macduff was referred to as a 'bloody child' because of the bloody way in which he came into the world. In Act 4 Scene 1 of the Shakespearean play 'Macbeth', the three witches called forth the apparition of a bloody child. The child warned Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057] of his powerlessness against the man not born of woman. It wasn't until Act 5 Scene 8 that Macbeth learned what the warning meant. In that scene, Macduff revealed that he owed his life not to a natural birth, but to a Caesarian delivery. That delivery was made, not from a living woman, but from the corpse of his already dead mother. William Shakespeare [Baptized April 26, 1564-April 23, 1616] didn't identify the cause of death for Macduff's mother. But the delivery would have been bloody. And it might have been made even bloodier by the cause of the mother's death.

According to the Shakespearean play, Banquo and his son Fleance were attacked by three murderers as they wended their way back to an evening banquet at Forres Palace. Fleance managed to escape. But Banquo never got out of the park near the palace. The murderers managed to cut his throat. The murder of the father, and not of the son, was in accordance with the witches' predictions in Act 1 Scene 3. The witches had told Banquo that he never would be king. But they indicated that Banquo would be the ancestor of a long line of kings. And so, in terms of the plot, it was important for Fleance to escape. The murder of the one and the escape of the other put Macbeth ever more in harm's way from the witches. It made him accept the witches' predictions as fact and as fate. And it made it possible for the predictions to come true.

According to the historical record, Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057] didn't kill King Duncan. Instead, King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040] was killed by his own men. The King had launched an unprovoked, unpopular, unjustified, unjust invasion of Macbeth's lands. And so the situation was righted with Duncan's death and Macbeth's immediate coronation. In fact, the Shakespearean play didn't agree with the historical records in many instances. But one of the historical accuracies was the close kinship between the two Kings. Duncan was the son of Bethoc, the eldest daughter of King Malcolm II [d. November 25, 1034], whom he succeeded as King of Scotland. Macbeth was the son of Donada, a younger daughter of the same King. He was succeeded by his stepson, King Lulach [d. March 27, 1058]. As with the case of his stepfather, Lulach was killed by Duncan's elder son, the subsequent King Malcolm III [d. November 13, 1093].

Maybe yes, maybe no was the fainting spell by Lady Macbeth [b. c. 1015] genuine in Act 2 Scene 3 of the Shakespearean play. Playwright William Shakespeare [Baptized April 26, 1564-April 23, 1616] didn't give supporting information one way or the other. So critics, readers, and viewers haven't come to uniform agreement. Additionally, the fainting spell was an aspect of the murder plot that his Lady didn't put into words for Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057]. She spelled out her role offering drugged drinks to the two royal guards of King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040]. But the two didn't share with readers and viewers how they'd handle the discovery of the three bloodied corpses the following day. It would have been consistent with her ambitious, scheming and unscrupulous character in the Shakespearean play that Lady Macbeth would have planned her actions and words. There indeed was a weak point in the Macbeths' murderous plot. Macbeth stabbed the King and his two royal guards to death. The following morning, he showed Macduff to the royal guest chamber without saying anything about bloodied corpses and bloodied crime scene. He confessed to having killed the guards for having killed the King only after Macduff came back out with the grisly news.

In Act 5 Scene 6, a Messenger arrived at Dunsinane, the royal castle of Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057]. He brought the news that Birnam Wood appeared to be moving towards Dunsinane. He said that the forest appeared already to have moved within three miles of the royal castle.

The contrast was between the Doctor's inaction and the King's action. In Act 5 Scene 1, the Doctor let the Gentlewoman attendant persuade him to witness the odd behavior of Lady Macbeth [b. c. 1015]. He traced the cause of the Lady's hand rubbing, sleepwalking, and talking to herself to emotional and mental problems within herself. Then in Scene 3, he discussed these problems with her husband, Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057]. In both scenes, his conclusions were his inability to solve the problems and the patient's need to cure herself. This reaction directly contrasted with the reactions of King Edward the Confessor [c. 1003-January 5, 1066] of England. In Act 2 Scene 2, the future King Malcolm III [d. November 13, 1093] fled Scotland for the English court. In Act 4 Scene 3, he was joined by Macduff near one of the English King's palaces. At first, Malcolm and Macduff talked about the suffering of Scotland under Macbeth's rule. Then they switched to the English people's suffering from scrofula. As with Macbeth's Lady, the English sufferers were blamed for inner causes of outward suffering. But unlike the Lady's Doctor, King Edward was proactive and made healing interventions. Likewise was the English King proactive in regard to the suffering of Scotland. In fact, Malcolm told Macduff that his Uncle Siward, Earl of Northumberland and General of the English Army, was being allowed to get together a 10,000 soldier strong force against Macbeth. In Act 5 Scene 2, the combined forces of invading Englishmen and discontented Scotsmen already were near Macbeth's royal castle of Dunsinane and even nearer to Birnam Wood. The scene showed the English King's proactiveness in seeing a problem and stepping in to solve it. The proactiveness provided especially effective contrast by being sandwiched between Scenes 1 and 3, in which the Doctor saw his royal patient's problem and did nothing.

In Act 2 Scene 2, Macbeth killed King Duncan I. His weapon of choice was a pair of daggers with which he murdered his sovereign and the two royal guards. In the precedng scene, he imagined a dagger just beyond his reach.

They are cousins.

Meaning that Macbeth is so weak to be killed easily. Like a fruit that has riped and to be collected.

In Act 4 Scene 1 of the Shakespearean play, Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057] sought out the three witches of Act 1 Scene 3. He wanted specific information on the challenges to the consolidation of his reign in Scotland. They showed him three apparitions. But he wanted to know one thing in particular that not one of the apparitions told him. Macbeth wanted to know if the witches' earlier prediction of a long line of royal descent from Banquo would come true. That answer came in the way of eight kings followed by Banquo's ghost and carrying a mirror. The mirror showed even more kings of the same line. So, yes, Banquo's line indeed would take over the throne of Scotland.

Leonard Malcolm Saville [1901-1962] was the author of a number of series for the children and young adult reading public. Perhaps the series for which he is most widely known is the Lone Pine series. Among the most endearing and enduring of the series' characters is the children's dog Macbeth, whose tragic name often is shortened to Mackie. The dog is so named, because he is a Scottie. And in another way the name is appropriate. For Mackie is as courageous and ferocious in a fight with minor rogues, as was the historic Macbeth. And as was the case of Macbeth, Mackie quickly is cowed by the more ruthless of scoundrels and villains. And yet unlike Macbeth, Mackie is 'not so happy, yet much happier'. For he never sinks below a certain level of canine conduct, and therefore is allowed to age, slowly but surely and gracefully.

It's contribution is in the fact that younger people watched it and had no idea they were actually watching Shakespeare. The detraction is that it is modernized and the feeling doesn't come through. All in all anything that makes younger viewers see Shakespeare in any form is a plus, and the script and acting was fantastic.

In Act 1 Scene 3, the three witches made prophecies for friends and fellow Generals Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057] and Banquo. For Macbeth, they prophesied his being Thane of Glamis, which he already was; becoming Thane of Cawdor, which he was unbeknownst to him; and ascending to the throne of Scotland as King, which he did with the murder of King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040]. For Banquo, they prophesied his good fortune and high status as ancestor to a long royal line in Scotland.

The first has a cat, the second a hedgehog, and the third an owl. Act IV scene i sets it up First Witch Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd. Second Witch Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined. Third Witch Harpier cries "'Tis time, 'tis time." a hedge-pig is a hedgehog, and a harpier is (most likely) an owl. It likely comes from the name 'harpy' which is like a lady/bird thing. But its most likely an owl.

In Act 1 Scene 3, the first witch told the second witch about a sailor's wife who wouldn't share her chestnuts. She planned to punish the wife through the husband, who was headed for Aleppo, Syria. She was going to brew up a horrible storm, a tempest, to keep the sailor's ship from sailing into port.

Yes, Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057] early on considered killing King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040]. In Act 1 Scene 3 of the Shakespearean play, Macbeth heard the witches' predictions of noble and royal promotions for him. Then he heard the news from the noble Scotsmen Angus and Ross of his receipt of the powerful title and profitable possessions of the Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth had to have known that King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040] would have planned to be succeeded by his own children, the future Kings Malcolm III [d. November 13, 1093] and Donald III [d. 1099]. So he had to have known that something untoward would have to happen for him to become King. In fact, in lines 134-142, he pondered means 'against the use of nature'. Such means to an end could have included king-killing. Then in Scene 4, he witnessed the King giving the title of Prince of Cumberland to Malcolm, the elder of the two children. That title identifed Malcolm as the heir apparent to the throne. Macbeth again considered foul means to realizing his royal destiny. In lines 48-53, he recognized the title as an obstacle that had to halt his progress or be dealt with. Most definitely did he consider foul means, which he called 'black and deep desires'.

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By saying Banquo is safe, he means that he is dead. And if he is dead, he can't be hurt by anyone.

Macbeth is motivated by ambition and greed as he struggles to come to power. His ambition becomes his fatal flaw as he continues to commit murder and becomes an enemy to all.

it is predicted that banquo's son fleance would be king. it is predicted that banquo's son fleance would be king.