Macbeth

Both mention birds. Lady MacDuff references the wren, and MacDuff references chickens.

The three witches

'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.

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.

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

(Apex)

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

"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."

Malcolm, in Act IV Scene 3

Well, he didn't directly have second thoughts of killing the king and he also does not tell his wife. Overall, he only questions the impact of the witches on him as he ends up realizing the mistakes that he made and how everything basically went up in flames.

She is trying to encourage Macbeth, who has been acting very strangely since killing Duncan. She says, "a little water clears us of this deed" implying that once the blood is washed off, they need never worry about the murder again. This is an ironic foreshadowing of the sleepwalking scene.

"The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures" implies that they cannot fight back. Macbeth refuses to go back to the room where the murdered Duncan lies, and Lady Macbeth is telling him in her usual contemptuous way that he has nothing to be afraid of.

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.

In Macbeth the quote that suggests that the witches are misleading Macbeth is one from the very beginning. The quote reads ' They met me in the day of success: and I have learned by the perfectest report, they have more in them than mortal knowledge'. This quote implies that the witches may not have supernatural powers according to Macbeth's thoughts, therefore meaning they are tempting to mislead him.

As in England calling your son the Prince of Wales marks him as the heir apparent, Duncan's calling Malcolm the Prince of Cumberland marked him as the next king. This would certainly be "a step on which [Macbeth] must fall down, or else o'erleap."

The text of Macbeth contains disturbing suggestions that when it was originally produced, the witches were no more terrifying than the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream. They were in fact a bit of a joke. The stage directions suggest that the witches sing and dance three times: once in Act III Scene 5 and twice in Act IV Scene 1, the famous Cauldron Scene. This scene contains the lines said by the character Hecate "And now about the cauldron sing, Like eves and fairies in a ring, Enchanting all that we put in" followed by the song "Black spirits, etc." Later the first witch says "But why stands Macbeth thus amazedly? Come sisters, cheer we up his sprites and show the best of our delights." followed by another song and dance.

If you get the impression that this makes Macbeth sound like a musical, you are probably right. Scholars believe that the only text we have of Macbeth is from a tarted up version of the play in which songs from Thomas Middleton's play The Witch and some further dialogue by Middleton, including the lines quoted above, were inserted by popular demand. The fact that there was a popular demand shows that the audience expected the witches to be funny, not scary. Middleton's alterations were made between 10 and 18 years after the play was first written so this public demand was among the original patrons. We actually have a description of the play written by one of the original patrons who saw it in 1610, before Middleton's revisions. He describes the witches in the scene where they prophesy to Macbeth and Banquo as "feiries or Nimphes" and again later as "nimphes" which confirms that they were portrayed as cute not frightening.

Modern practice is to remove all of the material clearly by Middleton and to portray the witches as frightening, which actually works better dramatically according to modern lights.

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.

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.

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).

how is the character enviorment and their self :]

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