Macbeth

Macbeth does not believe that Malcolm cannot harm himself. He is quite prepared to believe that Malcolm might harm Malcolm, which is what "harm himself" means. Macbeth does believe that Malcolm cannot harm him (i.e. Macbeth) because Malcolm's mother was apparently a woman and the witches said that none of woman born could harm Macbeth.

Lady Macbeth has gone mad. Like her husband, she cannot find any rest, but she is suffering more clearly from a psychological disorder that causes her, as she sleepwalks, to recall fragments of the events of the murders of Duncan, Banquo, and Lady Macduff.

Malcolm and macduff discuss Macbeth's failure as a leader

Joyce MacBeth Morehouse has written:

'Say it isn't so!' -- subject(s): Anecdotes

The dagger. He tries to hold it, but his hand goes right through it ("I have thee not") but it still appears to be there ("I see thee still").

"Sleep no more, Macbeth doth murder sleep."

That is what the First Witch does to the Master of the Tiger, after his wife refused to give the witch chestnuts. "I will drain him dry as hay; sleep shall neither night nor day hang upon his pent-house lid. He shall live a man forbid."

In Act 2 Scene 4 they certainly do discuss the events of the night.

Well everybody, of course. But on the morning after Duncan's murder (at which time the Porter was suffering from a huge hangover) he let in Macduff and Lennox.

At the beginning of the play all Macbeth has done has won the battle at Forres. In the course of the battle, according to the sergeant, he bisected the traitor Macdonwald from the nave to the chops (from the navel to the chin), and led a furious countercharge on the Norwegians' counterattack at a point where the Scottish soldiers might be thought to be exhausted.

To capture the attention of his listeners, who may have been doing other things

He carries the daggers he has used away from Duncan's room. His wife wants him to return and plant them on the grooms, but Macbeth refuses.

There are three witches.

Lady Macbeth criticises Macbeth in order to manipulate him into following through in the act of killing Duncan. We see she has great influence over him in how she easily changes his mind and feeling towards the regicide. In act 1 scene 7 she taunts him with a variety of techniques. She blackmails him by questioning his love to her by comparing it to a drunken promise in saying "Was the hope drunk wherein you dress'd yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale at what it did so freely? From this time such i account thy love." She then goes on to call him cowardly by longing for something but then not following through in his actions "Like the poor cat i' the adage". This is reinforced in her telling him that she is braver than him and would respect and keep any promise that she would ever make to him and then mocking his manhood which would have the desired effect of a great insult due to the time in which the play was written because when stripping Macbeth of his manliness she strips him of the qualities that are meant to provide him with power and authority.

The whole scene where Macbeth is off murdering Duncan and we watch Lady M waiting for him to get back is brilliant suspense.

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He's talking about mental health. He was not trained to deal with people with mental problems like Lady Macbeth. "Minister to" means to help or care for; he says "therein the patient must help himself", the meaning of which must be clear.

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Do you mean strange elements like the witches? Or Banquo's ghost? Or the dagger floating in the air? Well, you could say that the dagger and Banquo's ghost were all in Macbeth's mind, because he is the only one who sees them. Or possibly not. Sometimes the play is staged where the audience can see these things, sometimes not. The witches are different, since they are also seen by Banquo. They must have some reality, unless Banquo and Macbeth are having a shared hallucination. Although the second time Macbeth visits them, they are seen by nobody else, even when one would expect it, so maybe that was also in Macbeth's mind. Or not.

These are all questions which must be answered by the director of each particular production of the play.

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No, he went home to Fife.

"I have two nights watched with you" . . . (the opening words of Act V.

"Holily" Act I Scene 5

"Too cold breath gives." Act II Scene 1. There is something wrong with the line "words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives." It has to be "gives" to rhyme with "lives", but the verb "gives" does not match the subject "words". You can see this when you rearrange the line into a more familiar (but less rhythmically pleasing) syntax: "Words gives too cold breath to the heat of deeds." Excuse me, Mr. S., but that is not proper English grammar: it should be either "Words give too cold breath" or a different subject, like "Talk gives too cold breath to the heat of deeds." Anyway, Macbeth means "Why am I blithering on when I've got work to do?"

Strictly speaking, it is in act 1 scene 1 where the witches say "Upon the heath/ There to meet with Macbeth."

From this we know that Macbeth is on a heath. It's not much information but it is the first we get.