Macbeth is the best example of a cautionary tale because he cheated his way into the throne. In Act 1, Scene 3 after Macbeth and Banquo’s fight they are returning home when the three witches appear in front of them. The witches start chanting “hail, hail, hail” to Macbeth and Banquo, soon after they tell them a prophecy of how Macbeth would become king of Cawdor
“Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none. So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo.” as the three witches chanted and vanished. After this encounter with the witches Angus and Ross both approach Macbeth and Banquo to inform them that Macbeth is thane of Cawdor. Ross explains “And, for an earnest of a greater honor, He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor in which addition, hail, most
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When Duncan is asleep Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey Soundly invite him his two chamberlains Will I, with wine and wassail, so convince, That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason A limbeck only. When in swinish sleep Their drenched natures lie as in a death, What cannot you and I perform upon The unguarded Duncan? What not put upon His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt Of our great quell?” Lady Macbeth says. Macbeth doesn’t want to kill the king but is later persuaded by Lady Macbeth, she explains that she would get the guards so drunk that they would pass out. In the night Lady Macbeth gets the guards drunk and that’s when Macbeth sneaks into king Duncan’s room and stabs him in his sleep, killing him. After this Macbeth begins to slowly go crazy, seeing the ghost of Banquo at his dinner meeting. Macbeth begins to freak out and says “It will have blood. They say, blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak; Augurs and understood relations have By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?” after this Lady Macbeth orders the lords to leave Macbeth’s castle at once. To find answers Macbeth finds the witches and orders them to tell him why he is seeing ghosts. From the witches giant pot rises the first ghost saying “Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth, beware Macduff; Beware the …show more content…
As Macbeth sits in his castle he gives his famous quote about life “She should have died hereafter There would have been a time for such a word Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time,And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.” after this quote Macbeth goes outside to face the incoming army, he then faces young Siward in a sword fight. After they exchange a few swings Macbeth lands the fatal blow killing young Siward. Macduff finds Macbeth. “I have no words; My voice is in my sword, thou bloodier villain Than terms can give thee out.” both Macbeth and Macduff fight, during the fight Macduff says “Despair thy charm, And let the angel whom thou still hast served Tell thee Macduff was from his mother's womb Untimely ripped.” after a few more swings of their swords Macduff lands the final blow to Macbeth’s neck, ripping his head off. Macbeth shows that if you
This is my account of Macbeth’s downfall from a popular, successful soldier, quote “What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won”, who has received great honours for his loyalty, his courage, his bravery and his nobility. At the end of the play the only respect he has is because of the fear that his subjects have of him.
Macbeth is a brave Scottish general that receives a prophecy from three witches that he will one day become King of Scotland. In the beginning of the story you first meet Macbeth as a kind, innocent young man but as the story progresses he becomes the most hated man out there. Macbeth has the pressure of whether or not he wants to kill Duncan so that he can become king and at first he doesn't want to. However, as he talks to Lady Macbeth he conforms to her thoughts and opinions and ends up killing him. This leads to a whole new Macbeth who ends up losing site of who he truly is. He starts to care more about having the power then actually caring about his friends and family. This even leads him into killing his best friend Banquo and in the end Macbeth gets killed. This is a perfect example of why following your own thoughts and not conforming to others is better in the long run. Along the way Macbeth ended up losing the most important thing, himself just because he decided to conform to the thoughts of his
Thirdly, feelings of paranoia and guilt cause Macbeth characters to make damaging choices. When Macbeth asks the witches to reveal the truth of their prophecies to him, they summon horrible apparitions, each of which offers a prediction to allay Macbeth’s fears. First, a floating head warns him to beware Macduff. Macbeth says that he has already guessed as much. Later when Lennox enters and tells Macbeth that Macduff has fled to England. Macbeth in reply says, “The castle of Macduff I will surprise; / Seize upon Fife; give to th'edge o'th'sword / His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls / That trace him in his line.” (4.1.149-152). As Macbeth descends to madness he becomes obsessed with eliminating any threats to his power. Macbeth orders the murderers to kill Macduff's family and eliminate any threat to him. Ironically, this is the moment that Macbeth seals his own fate, by murdering Macduff's family he ensures Macduff's retaliation against him, which ultimately leads
Macbeth contemplates whether or not he should kill Duncan. Macbeth has always been loyal to his king, but he starts to question what his decision should be when he says “That tears shall drown the wind”. When Macbeth finds out about the witches prophecies, he quickly sends a letter to Lady Macbeth explaining the situation. She rapidly sees that she must help Macbeth become king, so she says “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be What thou art promised.
...ows about the witches visions and is willing to go down with a fight. Then the war starts. He goes into the war thinking he's invincible and Macduff looks for him trying to avenge his families death. Then Siward and Malcolm take over Macbeth's castle and Siward's son is dead. Then Macduff comes into the room with only the head of the dead Macbeth. Then he says that Duncan's son Malcolm is now the king of Scotland. Then he is then crowned in Scone as the new reigning King of Scotland.
Macduff and Malcolm, along with ten thousand soldiers, move to Dunsinane to attack Macbeth at his castle. While the army is fighting, Macduff slips into Macbeth’s chambers. He calls out to Macbeth, saying, “That way noise is. Tyrant, show thy face! If thou beest slain, and with no stroke of mine, My wife and children’s ghosts will haunt me still. I cannot strike at wretched kerns, whose arms Are hired to bear their staves. Enter thou, Macbeth, Or else my sword with an unbattered edge I sheathe again undeeded” (420). Macduff tells Macbeth that he is coming to kill him. He hopes to get there before anyone else finds and kills Macbeth because he needs to avenge his wife and children. Macduff then finds Macbeth and stabs and kills him. If Macbeth had not chosen to kill Macduff’s family, Macduff would not have desired to kill him to avenge their deaths. This shows that Macbeth’s decision to murder yet another group of people led to his final
). Macbeth realises that his life is an illusion and that he has been blinded by his pride. He uses a metaphor to conclude that life is short, like an actor that doesn’t have enough time on stage, and that in reality he is just an idiot who has created noise and destruction all for it to amount to nothing. He disrupted the kingdom, killed his friends and became paranoid only to be left to the company of pride, greed and wrath. In Macbeth’s remarkable last words “ “I will not yield,/ To kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet,/ And to be baited with the rabble’s curse./ Though Birnam Wood be come to Dunsinane,/ And thou opposed, being of no woman born,/ Yet I will
Macbeth started off as a noble, virtuous man, he was loyal to the king and was well respected by the other noblemen. The prophecies and hallucinations corrupted Macbeth’s intentions and as a result, Macbeth became power
Macbeth is seen as a “valiant cousin, worthy gentleman” (I, ii, 24). He is a brave warrior who is well respected in his community, until the witches prophesied to him that he would one day be king (I, iii, 50). Macbeth interprets that he must act to fulfill the prophecy. He sends a letter to lady Macbeth asking what to do. She suggests that he should kill Duncan. Macbeth follows the plan and kills Duncan (II, ii, 15). Directly following the murder Macbeth can no longer say amen (II, iii, 31-33). Macbeth also hears a voice in his head say, “sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep”(II, ii, 35, 36). For the rest of the play Macbeth suffers from insomnia. When Macbeth pretends to be surprised by Duncan’s death he says, “ Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time, for, from this instant, there’s nothing serious in mortality. (II, iii, 92-95) he is saying that if he had died before he murdered Duncan he would have lived a great life, but now that he’s committed murder, life is just a game and nothing is important anymore. These are suicidal thoughts and show how his grip on reality has greatly slipped.
When the three witches had met with Macbeth, and then he had told his wife, he did not feel sure that murdering the King was right, although he was the King’s savior. When Lady Macbeth hears about the news, she awakens, starts to plot Duncan’s murder and backstabbs Macbeth to kill him. She tells him to ‘be a man and go get what he wants’. At this point, Macbeth doesn’t have a choice. When she thinks that she can kill the King, she cries, “Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex
“His weakness is compounded by the urging of the equally ambitious Lady Macbeth and the encouragement given him by the Witches, whose supernatural powers seem certain to help him though in fact they bring him to his doom” (Boyce). He is constantly battling himself and trying not to lose his mind, but ends up doing just that. Macbeth thinks being King is his destiny, but learns the hard way that it was not. “His story is one of a moral choice and the consequences of that choice... Macbeth has every opportunity to avoid his fate: he could have ignored Lady Macbeth, or followed the lead of Banquo.
...evenge and engages Macbeth in swordplay. Macbeth is confident. However, it is quickly crushed when Macduff boldly states that he had been “untimely ripp’d” (5.8.20) from his mother’s womb. At this moment, Macbeth understands the full extent of the Witches’ deception. He is no longer living a charmed life of invincibility and must fight for his life. It is here that Macbeth’s courage returns when he refuses to surrender, “Yet I will try the last” (5.8.37).
This specific action consequently resulted in Macbeth’s level of morality to continually decline as he is acutely aware of his own tyranny. Therefore Macbeth attempts to forget the horrific deed he has committed and be the figure that orders and disorders. Our perception of Macbeth being a wise and loyal soldier is now eroded, as we start to view Macbeth constantly questioning his own actions, and is also impelled to perpetrate further atrocities with the intention of covering up his previous wrong-doings.
where others may not. Macbeth is weak. He gave in to his evil side by even