Macbeth

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Macbeth and lady Macbeth try to avoid suspicion by getting into their pajamas after committing the murder so people will think they were asleep all the time.

Duncan reminds her of her father. Which is ironic because before she had said she would smash her own baby's head on a wall but she wouldn't kill someone that reminds of her father. Ah, but saying you would do a thing and actually doing it are two quite different propositions.

Ross told Macbeth that he was now the thane of Cawdor just after the 3 witches made that prediction

Uh, no. Banquo and Macduff are both the same age, both with sons who are young kids (and who both appear in the play).

Catharsis for Macbeth is the purging of emotions for the tragic hero. The play helps us feel a chain of emotions usually leading with love and ending in pity.

In the beginning, he is portrayed as a brave soldier on the battlefield and a respectable man. As the play goes on, we feel less love for the character, but more pity for the rough situation he is in, and anger for the poor choices he made. Eventually, as his actions begin to spiral downwards, we feel hatred for the evil deeds Macbeth has committed. In the end, when he is finally slain, the audience feels pity for the man, as if everything happened the wrong way.

This is what makes a tragic play, the course of emotions that the audience feels for the protagonist.

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Macbeth

Macbeth plans to murder his friend, Banquo, and Fleance, Banquo's son, after hearing the witches' prophecies. He hires two murders to commit the act and then another to make sure it was successful. His plan was foiled because only Banquo was killed, and Fleance managed to escape. Hope this helped!

Macbeth says that he wishes Banquo was present at the dinner, yet Macbeth murdered Banquo. Macbeth proposed a toast to Banquo so that the Lords would not suspect Macbeth of any foul play. However, later on in this scene Macbeth betrayed himself. He thought he could see Banquos ghost, and he was acting strangely. The Lords were very confused and thought he was going mad and Lady Macbeth had to act for Macbeth and try and save their reputation.

In Act 2 Scene 1, Macbeth is onstage and Lady Macbeth is not. I think Macbeth in Act 1 Scene 5 is heading back to his castle called "Inverness" to talk to his wife (Lady Macbeth) about what happened with the witches and to come back from the war that just happened. Possibly you were thinking of Act 2 Scene 2 where she is talking and he is stabbing Duncan.

Because he's got his ideas where killing the king to become king himself is bad, since Duncan has been a friend and if anyone finds out they'll do the same to Macbeth, but also Lady Macbeth is manipulating Macbeth to do the wrong thing because she's mad with greed and wants the power also.

Macbeth is in the middle with the witches and with Lady Macbeth and can't make his own decisions because they're being made or manipulated for him.

If he did, it is not shown in the play. As far as we know, he only had the one chance encounter with them.

Inverness, when he arrives at Macbeth's castle in 1,6. He says, "This castle hath a pleasant seat. The air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself to our senses."

Banquo, Fleance, Lady Macduff and her children

Macbeth was compared to the devil

An armed head represents Macduff, who is a soldier.

The bloody child also represents Macduff, who was delivered by Cesarian Section, but that is not apparent at this time.

The crowned child holding a branch represents Malcolm, who will be king and who is therefore crowned. He is shown as a child because he owes his kingship, not to his own merit, but to the fact that he is a king's child. He is shown holding a branch as a hint as to how Birnam Wood is going to get to Dunsinane, but again, this is not apparent to Macbeth at this time.

Macbeth Tells The Murderers In Line 144-152 To Go And

Macbeth was both a man and a monster because he changes between the story and is loyal at the beginning but gets more violent at the end so we can safely say that Macbeth is a man AND a monster

They tell him the only person who can kill him is a man not born of a woman, which Macbeth thought was impossible. However, Macduff wasn't. His mother had a c-section, which doesn't count.

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In the Shakespearean play, Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057] held a banquet at Forres Palace after his coronation at Scone. But when it came time for everyone present to be seated, Macbeth wouldn't take his seat. The reason was the pre-empting of the seat by the ghost of Banquo. Banquo was heading back to the Palace for the banquet when he was accosted by three murderers. He made it no further than the nearby park, because his throat was slit. But his ghost made it to the banquet, on time and to unsettle Macbeth, who had hired the killers.

After the banquet where Banquo's ghost appears, he tells Lady Macbeth that he "will send" so he hasn't done it yet. The next time we see him, he is visiting the witches, and then Lennox brings word that Macduff is fled to England. Macbeth says "Time, thou anticipat'st my dread exploits." What this means is that Macduff got away before Macbeth could get to him. It would seem that Macbeth never does send for Macduff.

Banquo's heirs are prophesied to become kings. Macbeth tries to frustrate this by having Banquo and his child killed, but he fails because Fleance lives on to become the father of a line of kings