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Macbeth

The tragedy of Macbeth was written by William Shakespeare, probably between 1603 and 1606. The play has been adapted into operas, movies, television programs, and other books.

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What were king duncan's accomplishments?

he didnt do anything because he was a terrible king and he should have never became king.

Would Macbeth have become king even if he hadn't killed Duncan?

no he wouldn't have. if it weren't for his wife he wouldn't have either because when they first told him all he would become he said let it happen on it's own, if it's meant to be let it be. but then his wife was all like oh grow a pair your not a man kill Duncan and we can be king and queen and so ya...

What two titles does Macbeth have?

Macbeth is first 'Thane of Glamis'

then he is bestowed the title 'Thane of Cawdor'

then king of Scotland

Thou hast it now king cawdor glamis all weird woman promised and you fear thou play'dst most foully for't?

the answer that the person gave was garbage i did you a favour by erasing it.

Or did i?? MUAHAHAHAHA

Where did shakespeare get the idea for macbeth?

Macbeth is based on a real Scottish King. Shakespeare got the idea for his play Macbeth from reading a book called Holinshed's Chronicles, which contains the plot pretty much as Shakespeare wrote it. Shakespeare did not change it to try and flatter King James, who was the King at the time this play was performed. The story was like that in Holinshed, because Holinshed's sources had changed it to flatter King James's ancestors.

What price did Macbeth pay for his ambition?

He suffered from hallucinations, sleeplessness. He got himself killed by Macduff for he got mad and insane and made people suspicious by his actions and hallucinations.

What are the predictions made by the second and third apparitions?

The second apparition was a bloody child. It said that no man born of a woman shall harm Macbeth.

The third apparition was a crowned child holding a tree. It said that Macbeth will not be vanquished until Birnam woods approaches Dunsinane.

Whose idea was it to murder Duncan in Macbeth?

The prophecy that Macbeth will be king puts the idea of murdering Duncan into both Macbeth's head and Lady Macbeth's. Before he even writes to her Macbeth says to himself, "why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair" and later, "let not light see my black and deep desires." She doesn't give him the idea.

On the other hand, Macbeth does not put even the whiff of a suggestion into his letter that he has thought about murder, and Lady M says "Thou art too full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way." She is thinking murder, but is afraid he isn't.

Macbeth would have talked himself out of it, however, if Lady M had not pressured him into turning the idea of murder (which they both had) into reality.

Does Macbeth drink the potion that the witches make in act four scene one?

The play is not clear on this point. The potion was drunk by Macbeth in the 1971 Roman Polanski movie starring Jon Finch. In the Trevor Nunn RSC production with Sir Ian McKellen and Dame Judi Dench the potion is smeared on Macbeth's body. It's the director's call.

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What happend the night the king duncan was killed by Macbeth?

'Twas a rough night. Lennox says the wind blew the chimneys down, screams were heard in the air, birds sang all night and there were earthquakes. Ross later says that Duncan's horses ate each other. One hopes that he meant that they bit each other.

How does Macbeth react when he hears Fleance has escaped?

Not well. He says to the murderer, "Then comes my fit again . . . but now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in to saucy doubts and fears." He is afraid that Fleance will overthow him because of the witches' prophecy that Banquo will "get kings". He doesn't seem to remember that when it is Malcolm who is marching on him, not Fleance.

In Act 2 Scene 2 during Lady Macbeth's last speech What does she really mean?

Lady Macbeth says:

I hear a knocking

At the south entry; retire we to our chamber;

A little water clears us of this deed;

How easy is it then! Your constancy

Hath left you unattended. Hark! More knocking!

Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us,

And show us to be watchers. Be not lost

So poorly in your thoughts.

Let's go line by line:

"I hear a knocking at the south entry"--someone's knocking at the south door. We know it's Macduff and Lennox but they don't.

"Retire we to our chamber"--their chamber is their bedroom--that's where they should go

"A little water clears us of this deed; How easy is it then!"--It's easy to wash off the blood. Macbeth has asked "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood from my hand?" and answered "no". She didn't hear him (probably--it depends how you stage it, but she is off smearing the grooms' faces when he delivers this line) but her line sounds like an answer to his question. It is also an ironic foreshadowing of the last glimpse we will get of Lady M, trying desperately in her dreams to wash Duncan's blood from her hands. What a great line!

"Your constancy hath left you unattended"--and then what a stinker of a line. I think it makes more sense if you add a comma making it "Your constancy hath left you, unattended." His constancy, his faithfulness and perseverence has left him and he is now unattended. That's because Macbeth is just standing there looking at his hands.

"Hark! More knocking!"-obvious.

"Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us, and show us to be watchers" She wants him to put on his nightie, and why? So if someone has to wake them up, they look like "watchers", witnesses of the crime, not the perpetrators. She wants it to look like they were sleeping through the whole thing.

"Be not lost so poorly in your thoughts"--he's lost in his thoughts--still staring at his hands.

So what does this all add up to? She wants him to stop staring at his hands (Be not lost in your thoughts, your constancy hath left you), go to the bedroom (retire we), put on his nightie (get on your nightgown), and wash his hands (a little water). Then he will look like someone who has been asleep in bed all night, not prowling around murdering the king, when whoever is knocking gets inside. She thinks that she is the strong person who has to make the arrangements to cover up the crime; she is going to find out different really really soon and is not going to like it.

What does i come graymalkin mean?

It is a line from Shakespeare's Macbeth. One of the witches is being calle (presumably meowed at) by her familiar, a gray cat named "Graymalkin," and is called offstage.

Can the weird sisters make anything happen or do they merely foresee the futrue?

Their dialogue in Act 1 Scene 2 suggests that they have powers beyond merely foretelling. The first witch has been insulted by the woman eating chestnuts. She proposes that she will revenge herself on the woman's husband, a sailor ("master of the Tiger"--Tiger is the name of his ship). She says, "Though his bark cannot be lost, yet it shall be tempest-tost" which suggests that they can create winds and make the boat leaky and keep him from sleeping but that their powers do not go so far as to kill him--"his bark (ship) cannot be lost"

What is Lady Macbeth's state of mind berfore and after the murder of Duncan?

Before Macbeth killed Duncan he and Lady Macbeth were working together to aquire power. After Macbeth killed Duncan he went on to murder others without telling his wife. By the end of the play Macbeth does not care much about his wife as shown when he is told his wife is dead.

Why is the heath a desolate place in Macbeth act 1 sense 1?

A heath is basically a barren waste land, its unproductive and there is no life there (nothing grows there). There is no life here, whereas the role of land is to sustain life. The witches are there because they are going to be unproductive in what they do there. This is all also connected to the weather (lighting and thunder) they all reflect on each other - the witches are like the thunder (powerful and suggest evil)

Who was thane yost?

Thane Yost was the singular point in the revival of the Brown Dragons.... he used his legendary wit and cunning to circumnavigate a point between the plane of Atari and the plane of Algora and resurrected Beatrice to defeat the melancholy of Arthur the Vain. After a long fought battle Thane Yost banished Arthur's soul into the sword of the Crystal Flame and broke it into 13 pieces. Each piece has been hidden away to prevent Arthur's return. Today only 6 of the 13 pieces have ever been located. Thane Yost lives on forever as the savior of all mankind and the messiah of the Brown Dragons.

Was Macbeth prince?

Macbeth was never a prince. He held many titles in Scotland and by murdering the king gained that title for himself, however he was never a prince.

Is King Leopold a Shakespeare play?

There is no play of that name in the Folio or among any of the lists of his plays. The answer is no.

Why does Macbeth kill the king's men?

A) So that they will not be able to tell people that Macbeth killed the King, and B) so that he can frame them for killing the King, allowing him to escape suspicion.

What does murther hath broke ope mean in macbeth?

It means that "murder has become unrestrained" i.e. killings are mounting up and seemingly out of control.