Macbeth

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.

Richard Renaldo

she walks off the castle walls

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no

I suspect that you are correct.

Lady Macbeth dies before young Siward is slain by Macbeth. Lady Macbeth may have been murdered but it is usually interpreted by most that she commits suicide.

foreshadowing

it forshadows the madness of both MacBeth and his wife.

Double speak and duality are what leads Macbeth to his false sense of what he's doing is right. The witches constantly give him double speak like: "till Birnam Wood be come to Dunsinane", "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.....". These things make it seem like he is going to be perfectly fine, but in the end they trick him and lead to his downfall.

Lady Macbeth wasn't in on her husband's plans to kill Banquo. When she asked what his plans 'of dreadful note' [Act 3 Scene 2 Line 44] were, he didn't want her to know the specifics. But most likely yes, she would have wanted Macbeth to kill Banquo. Earlier in their conversation, she commented that Banquo and his son Fleance were mortal [and therefore killable?].

Yes, Macbeth was a hypocrite. A hypocrite may be defined as someone who makes a show of virtue, religious devotion, or benevolence. Such may be said of Macbeth's misbehavior when King Duncan was his house guest. Macbeth indeed followed his wife's hypocritical advice: '...look like th' innocent flower,/But be the serpent under 't' [Act 1 Scene 5 Lines 63-64]. It was hypocritical and treacherous to have welcomed the King only to kill him.

Though the witches prophesied Macbeth's ascension to the throne, they did not necessarily manipulate him. However, their suggestion that both Macbeth and Banquo would rule precipitated Macbeth's ambitious moves.

That quote "foul and most unnatural" is not from Macbeth, but from Hamlet - Old Hamlet describes his own murder thus, when he is addressing his son as a ghost.

The King is murdered in Macbeth, but this phrase is not used.

Macbeth, yet guards were framed and Lady Macbeth was the plotter!

King Duncan received the bleeding Captain's report, in Act 1 Scene 2. The report told of Macbeth's actions in the battle against the traitor Macdonwald. It also told of his similar actions against invading Norwegians and collaborating Scotsmen. In both regards, Macbeth behaved courageously in defense of his king and his country. The Captain described Macbeth as noble, fearless, and brave in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

Malcolm will be the future king of Scotland

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.