Macbeth

He is confident that he will not loose the kingdom to malcolm because the witches have said that he won't be defeated until the wood's move towards him and he can't be killed by anyone except a man not born of woman. (Macduff).

narcissus

At first he is weary and unsure of if he should but then he does it which then begins his plans to kill off anyone who could take the throne.

Sunday Evening down at the pub

"Sorry I'm late; I had trouble parking the car. So did I miss anything in scenes one and two?"

Who is killed by Macbeth in the final battle?

The young SIWARD was.

And his father asks whether he was wounded in the front or the back?

And what it seemed like was if he was killed in the back he must have run like a little wuss, but if he got wounded in the front that means he was fighting and trying to do something right.

Wrong play. The expression "pound of flesh" comes not from Macbeth but from The Merchant of Venice.

He feels traumatised, but he's encouraged by Lady Macbeth and his ambition for power.

By this point in the play, Macbeth is pretty much insane. While his monologue (life is but a walking shadow) is definitely up to interpretation by the individual/performer, my personal interpretation is that this is when Macbeth realizes that he has done terrible things, he will not get anything out of it, and that he will die. "It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing." My opinion of this is that Macbeth is saying he has done so many terrible things, and that there was no purpose (signifying nothing). So while he starts talking about his wife's death, he only lingers on it momentarily as it is the catalyst for this entire realization.

Macbeth was very brave at war, therefore he deserves the title of a noble, brave and worthy man. Macbeth and Banquo both won the war and were great soldiers too. All of these factors link into the reasons why Macbeth is referred to as brave. It is stated by the captain.

Basically, a huge army is going to attack his castle. MacDuff hopes to be the guy who will fight with Macbeth so he can kill him and get revenge for his wife and children. It's not really a plan.

Apparently ethos means "the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution." Some definitions talk about "the spirit of an age". My question then becomes "whose ethos are we looking for: Macbeth's? Duncan's? Scotland's? the eleventh century's? the seventeenth century's? aristocrats'?"

To tell you true, I don't think it makes much sense to talk about the ethos of a person unless it is an artificial and flat character like Snidely Whiplash or one of the Power Rangers. Good characters and all real people do not have a single "distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs". They are much more complex than that.

Groups or institutions are easier, as they are often formed for a particular purpose, like a glee club or museum, or around certain definable beliefs, like religious bodies and political parties (sometimes). But you cannot talk about the ethos of a nation like Scotland without sounding silly. What are you going to say? The distinguishing characteristic of Scotsmen is that they come from Scotland. Period. That's the ethos. As soon as you start adding in stuff about being parsimonious, you are well down the road to racism.

Talking about "the spirit of an age" is maybe more coherent, because certain attitudes are typical (but of course not universal, and perhaps not even held by the majority) in particular times. Talking about paranoia and an obsession with conformity as the ethos of the United States in the 1950s does explain such things as Joseph McCarthy.

There is in Shakespeare's political plays, of which Macbeth is one, a strong endorsement of the notion of a hereditary monarchy. Invariably when people slip away from this idea in Shakespeare's plays, trouble and grief ensue (well, perhaps not invariably. Arguably Titus Andronicus is a counter-example). Macbeth caused chaos, not so much by murdering Duncan, but by assuming the throne when Duncan had two sons available. The ethos of the seventeenth century when Shakespeare was writing included a strong endorsement of the principle of hereditary monarchy. After the Wars of the Roses, who could blame them? However, and curiously, this idea was not part of the ethos of the eleventh century when the real Macbeth lived--at that time, Macbeth would have been the natural successor to Duncan, being a great warrior in sharp contrast to the feckless Malcolm. Eleventh-century Scotsmen were not great believers in hereditary monarchy.

Macduff. He was born by Caesarian section which apparently doesn't count.

Go Outside A Theater Turn Around Three Times, Spit Say The Worst Word You Can Think Of Then Wait For Permission To Re-Enter The Theater.

She wants to kill Duncan and what do you know? he shows up at her front door. Well, that is going to make things easy.

The last thing he sees is Banquo and all his royal descendants. Well, he asked for it.

Macbeth's doubts were about the consequences of his deeds in this world. There was also doubt about the deed from his obligations as kinsman and host of Duncan.

This is the reference to a bird in Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 5:

"The raven himself is hoarse

That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan

Under my battlements."

Ravens have many symbolic meanings, both positive and negative, but in this case it seems clear that she is using a raven as a symbol or harbinger of death.

"Go get some water, and wash this filthy witness from your hand." In other words, she is trying to distract him.

The word Gordon does not appear in Macbeth or any of Shakespeare's works.

The term used when anyone is alone on the stage and speaks is soliloquy. Macbeth has a dandy soliloquy in act 1 scene 7 when he comes onto the stage alone and says, "If it were done when 'tis done, it were well it were done quickly."

Daggers is the nickname for the Dagenham and Redbridge football club.

He wants to prevent Banquo's son from becoming king as the witches predicted

(Apex)

Himself. He forced him self to become crazy. The witches lured him in with prophecies and Macbeth's eagerness for power, lead him to damage himself

She was freightened and started to realise that Macbeth was ill. She sent all of the guests home, saying that the illness was nothing out of the ordinary for him and she explained to Macbeth that it was all his imagination.