Macbeth

A number of the histories we have of the time are either unclear or are later emendations. The main tactical plan was to get naked, paint yourself blue, and run screaming at the enemy waving the biggest sword you could handle.

Holinshed's Chronicles describe the strategy used to defeat the Norwegian invasion of Fife alluded to in the Shakespeare play. According to Holinshed, the Norwegians defeated King Duncan and his son Malcolm in the field and so they retreated into a castle. The besieging Norwegians were ill-provided with food, but Duncan said that the besieged army would happily provide food for the Norwegian army. The infinitely stupid Norwegian king agreed, and so they all fell to and ate a feast of poisoned food which rendered them incapacitated. Macbeth rode in from the north and mopped up the survivors.

The word "chaudron" means guts, intestines.

ambition

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

After committing the first murder himself, Macbeth sends out hired murderers to deal with Banquo and with Macduff's family. As a result, he does not kill the people he is really worried about: Macduff and Fleance (since it is Banquo's children and not Banquo he is to worry about)

Anger that his crime will benefit Banquo's family and not his own

On the battlefield, Macbeth at last encounters Macduff. They fight, and when Macbeth insists that he is invincible because of the witches' prophecy, Macduff tells Macbeth that he was not of woman born, but rather from his mother's womb / Untimely ripped (5.10.15-16). Macbeth suddenly fears for his life.

The three assassins that were hired by Macbeth kill Banquo as he is walking with his son to the palace for a dinner that Macbeth invited him to.

the witches

Shakespeare's dialogue between Ross and Lady Macduff makes readers begin to like the mother and son. Once you find them appealing and likable, he then kills them off.

The quote is said by one of the weird sisters in the play Macbeth as they brew up evil spirits and invite Hecate to attend, in anticipation of Macbeth's desperate arrival to hear his fate from them. Macbeth finds the weird sisters in a cave and he immediately sees that they are doing something unearthly and greets them with "How now you black and secret midnight hags?". Means > I greet you, what are you doing evil women?

One of the weird sisters replies to him, " ...a deed without a name".

This means that they are meddling with unearthly spirits and evil of the most unearthly kind. A deed (act) which is SO evil that it has no words or earthly definition to describe it. It is beyond evil, beyond earthly good and evil. It is evil and madness beyond any human comprehension and even beyond words or description. A deed without a name.

Malcom is Duncan's son. Macbeth kills Duncan (king of Scotland), but not Malcom; Malcom flees to escape suspicion of his involvement in his father's murder. He later returns to Scotland, where, after Macduff kills Macbeth, he is crowned king.

Hope this helps!

Brave Macbeth

how is the character enviorment and their self :]

It turns out, after declaring Leo Gibbs, the comedian, was the murderer, Alex Dennison shoots him. In the ensuing blackout and confusion, Frank Heller uses a flashlight to see where everyone is. He sees David and Karen standing calmly. The light finds Alex, who calls for lights. Alex helps Leo up and walks towards Frank. He asks where Frank got the flashlight. Frank says he was looking for matches in the desk. But, Alex already said Monica Wells didn't smoke. He reveals that Frank knew he'd find the flashlight, because he saw it the night he killed Monica. Alex goes on to reveal that everything Frank saw when he entered was scripted (although he admits a bit was improvised), and that all the other motives were made up. The cast chimes in their part in the whole thing, and how Alex figured out it was Frank. Frank's cab had records of leaving the theater and going to Monica's apartment. Slowly, as everything is unraveled, Frank confesses what happened that night. Monica died in an argument between them, and when he threw her, her head slammed against her desk. Frank faked the suicide, and Alex hired him to participate in his game, telling him it was Leo who was the killer. It turns out, Lieutenant McElroy was up in the light booth and arrests Frank. The ending contains much more info, but that's the basics.

Macbeth decides to kill Banquo out of fear. he is afrait of Banquo out of two reasons, the first being that Banquo had defied him in act two by not agreeing to help him. the second reason is that Banquo is questioning how Macbeth got so many things go his way after the witches prophosy The third reason Macbeth is afraid is that the witches prophesise that Banquo's son will sit on the crown, if his son is sitting on the crown Macbeth will obviusly be dead

Macduff pratically deserted his family. Instead of being with them, he went to England to find Malcolm and convince him to come back to Scotland and be the king. While Macduff was in England, Macbeth ordered the assassains to go to Macduff's house and murder him and his family. Macduff wasn't there to protect his family.

Macduff's flaw is that he cared more about his job/Duncan's death than his own family. He went to England without telling his family so they were killed.

They did a circle dance and vanished.

Lady Macduff and her son were killed by Macbeth's murderers. He killed them because he was really afraid of everything (after witches' predictions) and wanted to harm Macduff.

A question with some incoherence. What apparition? The ghost scenes in Macbeth were referred to in the script as apparitions- the Dagger of the Mind sequence ( a good reference, out of context, to drug abuse! Apparition ususally sounds clasier than (Ghost) and is applied to religious visions or sightings such as those of the Blessed Virgin Mary at, for example, Fatima. Be sure of your target before opening up! There were, as I recall three apparitions or ghost sequences in Macbeth- Four Ghosts in ( A Christmas Carol) and One is not sure of the total number of apparitions at the Fatima site in l9l7.

It is always useful when asking about a quotation to quote it accurately. The word Macbeth uses is not "warmth" but "worm":

There the grown serpent lies; the worm that's fled

Hath nature that in time will venom breed,

No teeth for the present.

A serpent is of course a big snake; a worm looks like the same thing but much smaller. Macbeth is angered by Fleance's escape when he tried to kill him to secure his throne. Banquo is the serpent and Fleance is the worm. When he says "the worm that fled hath nature that in time will venom breed", he means that in time Fleance will grow to be a danger. Shakespeare is rearranging the words to get a better rhythm, but think of it as "the worm that fled hath nature that will, in time, breed venom." Of course, Fleance is no danger now; he has "no teeth for the present".

The ghost of Banquo.

Macduff says this

If you are referring to Shakespeare's classic Macbeth, it's because Macduff hates Macbeth. Remember, Macbeth turns evil because of hunger for power. Macbeth killed Macduff's wife and children because Macduff knew Macbeth killed Duncan. He wanted to kill Macduff, but Macduff was gone. Macbeth killed Macduff's family because he felt they were in his way and stopping him from achieving his goals.

Because they were mad at him, they wanted to kill him and make Malcolm king instead.