Macbeth

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.

Macbeth's plot worked against Banquo, who had his throat slit. But it didn't work against Banquo's son Fleance, who escaped. In Act 3 Scene 1 of the Shakespearean play, Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057] met with two murderous thugs. The meeting ironed out the details for the murder of the father-and-son rivals to the throne of Scotland. In Act 3 Scene 3, the two murderers were joined by a third. Between the three of them, they only managed to slit Banquo's throat. Perhaps they had counted on Fleance to stay and defend his life and that of his father's. But Fleance ran.

I was wondering the same thing ... -.-

lady Macbeth prays to be unsexed because she thinks her femininity makes her weak she is too kind and gentle she needs her kindness to be taken away so she can plan the murder and make Macbeth kill king duncan

she walks off the castle walls

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

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

After Macbeth, Banquo, and King Duncan exchange warm greetings, King Duncan announce Malcom as the Prince of Cumberland.

I think,Shakespeare's Macbeth is an icon of vaulting ambition and excessive greed of an individual.It thus transcends the historical character.It is a drama that we are familiar and identify with in many corporate boardrooms of today and more recently in wall street.

Macbeth of Scotland ,fought for a legitimate cause as the usual principle of successor in Scotland required that the crown passes on to a collateral of the king(Malcolm the second) rather than to his direct heir(Duncan).Macbeth of Scotland thus has a `local habitation and a name'

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Antonio borrows some money from Shylock the moneylender and promises that if it is not repaid on time, Shylock can have a pound of flesh from anywhere on Antonio's body. They have this written up and notarized in the form of a bond.

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Macbeth stabbed his sovereign, King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040], to death. He then used the weapons on the two royal guards. All three victims were defenseless, and taken by surprise. Macbeth was unhinged by all the blood at the crime scenes. He further was unhinged by the guards awakening from their drug-induced stupor to pray. Macbeth couldn't say 'Amen' to their prayers. He was so shaken that he walked away from the crime scenes with daggers, the weapons of the crime.

In Act 5 Scene 3, a servant in Dunsinane Castle tried to warn Macbeth [d. August 15, 1057] of the approach of a 10,000 man strong force under Siward, the English Earl of Northumberland. Macbeth didn't take the reports seriously. Instead, he insulted the servant, and called the soldiers geese. The reason that Macbeth didn't take the reports seriously was his faith in the witches' predictions. The witches had said that he needed to fear only Macduff, a man not born of woman, and the movement of Birnam Wood to Dunsinane. Macbeth ended up considering the most important prediction his vulnerability to a man not born of woman. He simply didn't consider the practicalities of life whereby such a possibility wouldn't be an impossibility. He didn't think through to the possibility of a man being delivered by Caesarian section from a dead mother. And that in fact was the way in which Macduff came into the world.

In the Shakespearean play 'Macbeth', the phrase 'important people' referred to those who held important jobs and positions of importance. The most important person therefore was King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040]. The next most important person was the future King Malcolm III [d. November 13, 1093], who was the heir apparent as the Prince of Cumberland. Just a bit below in importance was the future King Donald III [d. 1099], who as Donalbain was the apparently younger brother to Malcolm. The next most important people were those who served as official or unofficial advisors to their kings: the noblemen and Thanes Angus, Caithness, Lennox, Macduff, Menteith, and Ross; and the noble Siward, Earl of Northumberland and General of the English forces that supported the ultimate overthrow of Macbeth from power. The next most important people were those who defended their king and their country from enemies within and outside the realm: the Captains Banquo and Macbeth. Last in the ranking of importance were the noble wives, such as Lady Macbeth and Lady Macduff.

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.

Act 5, scene 5. Just after Macbeth finds out Burnam wood is moving.

The Shakespearean play 'Macbeth' began and ended with Scotland at war with another country. In Act 1 Scene 2, King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040] received the reports of victory for his rule and for Scotland against the seemingly overwhelming numbers of invading Norwegians and rebellious Scotsmen. So the play began with war between King Duncan I of Scotland and King Sweno [c. 1016-1035] of Norway. In Act 5 Scene 2, the 10,000 man strong army of Siward, Earl of Northumberland and General of the English forces, had crossed Scotland's border with northern England. They already were advancing towards Birnam Wood, as one stage on route to their final destination of Macbeth's royal residence at Dunsinane Castle. And so the play ended with war between King Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057] of Scotland and Sainted King Edward the Confessor [c. 1003-January 5, 1066] of England.

He was testing Macduff to see if he genuinely had the interest of Scotland at heart. When Malcolm says "He hath not touched you yet" (IV, iii, 14) it means that he suspects Macduff is in league with Macbeth to take him prisoner and kill him. Malcolm then makes up all his vices to make sure that Macduff wants a good king and not just Malcolm. When Macduff responds that with his vices, Malcolm would make a terrible kind, Malcolm responds that he made the vices up and he knows that Macduff has Scotland's best interests at heart.

In shakesperes story it is said that Macbeth killed him in his sleep but in reality historians believe he was killed (by Macbeth) during or shortly after the battle.

In Act 5 Scene 9, Macduff got Macbeth to fight by calling him the names 'hell-hound' and 'bloodier villain'. At first, Macbeth wasn't worried by the witches' warning to fear Macduff or the movement of Birnam Wood to Dunsinane. Instead, he chose to concentrate on the cautionary advice that seemed incomprehensible and impossible to him: defeat at the hands of a man that hadn't been born of woman. So he figured that he just needed to watch out for any tricks that Macduff might be up to. He didn't realize that he needed to watch out for his life. In essence, Macduff was a man who hadn't been born of a woman. He had been born by a Caesarian delivery from a dead mother. But the realization that the fight that already was in progress was doomed didn't stop Macbeth. As he always had done on all the battlefields of his life, Macbeth fought bravely to the death, be it his or his opponent's. In this case, his luck finally had run out.

Lady Macbeth gave the two royal guards drugged drinks. The two passed out, and were remiss in their responsibilities as defenders and protectors of their King, Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040]. Her husband then was able to kill the defenseless guards just as easily as he had killed his sovereign. It looked to those who found the three bloodied corpses that the guards had gotten drunk and gone crazy against their King and each other.

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She's commits suicide. Probably. Malcolm says she does, although he would have no way of knowing that personally. He says that " 'tis said" but not by whom.