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Act I
1. Dark place with thunder, lightning, fog and filthy air.
2. Banquo said that they’re women with beards that are so withered, and wild with their attire.
3. Duncan seems to be fair as he calls Macbeth brave for his actions and promotes him to become the Thane of Cawdor as a reward. Macbeth on the other hand is foul as he was a hero that was very courageous until he got arrogant when he became the Thane and betrayed Duncan by killing him after Act I Scene 5.
4. For prophecies, Macbeth is the thane of Glamis, thane of Cawdor, and “that shalt be King hereafter.” From page 5 through 6. For Banquo, he’s to become lesser than Macbeth, and greater, Not so happy, yet much happier, and that he will not be King but his children will in page 6.
5. She is saying that because of how Macbeth acts with the nature around
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him, he’s too kind enough that it prevents Lady Macbeth to be on her way to royalty and to becoming a queen. 6. She asks Macbeth a lot of rhetorical questions, tells Macbeth what to do and makes fun of his gender by calling him a coward in Act I Scene 5 so pretty much she pressures him to kill Duncan. 7. The atmosphere of having fog, thunder, lightning and dark environment creates an environment that looks evil especially with the witches involved in it as they always caused trouble with what they made the main characters do later on in the story. Act II 8. The difference is that Macbeth doesn’t care about the witches as his prophecies are good enough for him but for Banquo, he’s super worried about them as he doesn’t believe that they told him the whole story. The influence that they both had on them was that for Macbeth he started to become somewhat paranoid and made him the evil person that he is after killing Duncan and for Banquo he was really worried about them as he thought the witches didn’t tell him everything about his future. 9. The blood symbolizes the guilt that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth both had. In page 23, as Macbeth was crying about Duncan’s murder, she asks Neptune to “wash this blood clean of my hand?” asking him to clean all the guilt that’s stained to her hand and be forgiven for the murder. Act III 10.
The three events he’s stated is that Macbeth became the King of Scotland, the Thane of Cawdor and the Thane of Glamis. He hopes for his children to become the thing that he never could become. Kings.
11. The turning point was Macbeth seeing the ghost of Banquo. When he saw him, he realized that he made a mistake and couldn’t go back in time to fix the problem.
12. When comparing the two murders, there’s a difference gap in Macbeth and how he felt about murdering them. For Duncan, he was reluctant as he considered Duncan as a friend and respects him to where he couldn’t kill him until Lady Macbeth convinced him to do it. On the other hand, you had Macbeth not even hesitating to Banquo as he was an obstacle for Macbeth to become the king and kept the murder to himself. It showed that Macbeth was not the hero that Duncan told us. He was now the sadistic murderer that would do anything to get what he wants.
Act IV
13. To beware of MacDuff, that no woman can hurt you, and that Macbeth will be killed when “the woods grow up in his castle”.
14. The significance of this is to give him a message that he’s safe for now but later on he will be in
trouble. 15. He decided to kill MacDuff’s family to kill all the threats that are in his way. 16. The symbolic purpose of these prophecies is to give the audience an image of what’s going to happen later on in the story. The armed head could represent Macbeth’s head as an act that someone is going to kill him by cutting off his head which did happen in Act 5. The bloody child represented as maybe Macbeth himself as the child told him to be bold as he can’t be killed from anyone when really he can get killed. And finally the Royal Child and Tree, which could represent Macbeth’s wants or that there will be a new king after Macbeth is dead. 17. He decided not to show the murder so the audience could use their imagination on how gory, brutal, and bloody it was rather than it just being a regular murder in which it can scare some people but having that small chance that a group of people not even interested on how the murder was showed. Act V 18. He’s telling the nurse that in Lady Macbeth’s life, she has done a lot of bad deeds and has a lot of guilt for what’s she has done so to help her she must admit to what she has done so they can give her the aid that she needs. 19. From page 82, Malcolm planned to create the Thanes and the kinsman Earls. 20. After murdering Duncan, he was somewhat afraid since he killed the king and made him really paranoid of what’s going on around him. On the other hand with Lady Macbeth, he felt upset about it but it was bad timing for him as he couldn’t properly mourn for her and wanted to say good-bye to her in page 77. 21. In this scene, it showing that Lady Macbeth is now realizing what she has done with the murders and other possible bad deeds that she has done from the past and is now starting to feel guilty about it unlike in the beginning of the story.
In order for Macbeth to be safe, it is to kill Banquo. Banquo may assume what had happened and tell the people of Scotland. "For Banquo’s issue have I filed my mind; for them the gracious Duncan have I murdered; Put rancors in the vessel of my peace only for them, and mine eternal jewel".
Which also foreshadows the death of Banquo. It is primarily because of this that most likely derived Macbeth into evil and further brought out his inner darkness.
Both Banquo and Macbeth are introduced as loyal captains in the king`s army, but as the play progresses, Macbeth is overcome with the desire of power due to his reception of the prophecies. Upon hearing, Banquo does not become greedy for power, but, alternatively, he is suspect and cautious begins wondering if “we [Macbeth and Banquo] eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?” (1.3). Realizing the witches were simply trying to make him ambitious, Banquo remains loyal to his king and his country, despite knowing that he will have a dynasty to rule Scotland. Despite having the motivation, Banquo does not commit treason against his king but rather wants to “keep my [his] bosom franchis'd and allegiance clear” (2.1), meaning that he has no desire to betray the king for personal gain. Conversely, upon hearing the witches’ prophecies, Macbeth becomes ambitious for power and follows them blindly. He is curious about the witches’ prophecies and demands they “stay… [and] tell me [him] more” (1.3). When he hears that the prophecy that his heirs will rule Scotland he will be king, Macbeth`s ambition is born and his thoughts instantly turn to murder, even though the witches had not mentioned murdering King Duncan which shows that Macbeth has previously thought about murdering his king. As a result, Macbeth has no loyalty to neither his king nor his country and commits treason. While both Banquo and Macbeth hear the witches` prophecies that promised power, only Macbeth conceded to their prophecy and became overcame with ambition. Macbeth is a direct antithesis to the honorable, dependent Banquo. He transforms into a greedy man who is obsessed with his
Macbeth begins to defer from his original character when he learns of the witches’ prophecies, which leads him to believe he is fated to be king and to pursue that “destiny.” After the witches make the prophecies, he merely views the thought of himself becoming king as something that “Stands not within the prospect of belief” (I. iii. 77). Macbeth’s disbelief of their claim of him obtaining the crown reveals how Macbeth does not trust the witches’ words and has no true ambition to become king. However soon after Banquo’s and Macbeth’s encounter with the witches, a messenger of the King greets him with the title of Thane of Cawdor as well as the title of Thane of Glamis as the witches had also done. These two titles are seen from Macbeth as “Two truths [that] are told/ As happy prologues to the swelling act/ Of the imperial theme” (I. iii. 140-142). Having one of the two prophecies become reality validates the witches’ words and makes Macbeth take their words seriously to be the truth, sparking his desire for power to fulfill the last prophecy. He now believes that what the witches have made it his destiny to become king, and it is his duty to fulfill it. Through Duncan and Macbeth’s dialogue, Macbeth hears about Malcolm b...
In the beginning, Macbeth is a strong, brave and noble soldier. He is considered brave by all the people he was fighting around. When the captain is relaying the events of the battle, we find him saying to the king "For brave Macbeth- well he deserves that name" (1.2.16). As a result of Macbeth's actions on the battlefield, Duncan names him Thane of Cawdor in Act one Scene two. From this, we can see that Macbeth is a good soldier. He has no intention of doing anything other than serving the king.
In the third scene, he encounters the witches who truthfully predict that he will become the Thane of Cawdor and further predict that he will become king of all Scotland. At first Macbeth is merely intrigued by what the witches say, but when their prophecy starts to come true, a seed of evil is planted within him and he can no longer see the reality of the situation – the evil nature of the
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“All hail, Macbeth! Hail to you, thane of Glamis. All hail, Macbeth! Hail to you, thane of Cawdor. All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!”(1.3.51-53) and also goes on to tell Banquo that his descendents will be kings even though he won’t become one. At first Macbeth dismisses these claims, and Banquo suggest that they were just hallucinating, but the idea of becoming Thane of Cawdor and king of Scotland has been implanted in Macbeths head. Coincidentally just before Macbeth and Banquo meet the witches Duncan announces to Ross that Macbeth will be the new thane of Cawdor “No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death, and with his former title greet Macbeth.”(1.3.76-76) When Macbeth finds out that he will become thane of Cawdor from Ross and Angus he starts to truly believe that he can and will become the new king. The witches use this previously announced fact “Hail to you, thane of Cawdor” as a catalyst, to trick him into believing that he will become king which makes him take action towards the prophecy, but which was really his free will maki...
The reader finds in Shakespeare's Macbeth that the cunning and machinations of evilly inclined people do not pay off. On the other hand, the progeny of the honest will rule the kingdom. This paper is the story of Banquo the innocent.
Macbeth knows that killing Duncan is morally wrong as demonstrated in (I, vii, 31-32) where he states, “.we will proceed no further in this business: he hath honour’d me of late”. Yet it is his vaulting ambition that gets the better of him as he shows signs of wanting to kill Duncan. Macbeth says, “The Prince of Cumberland”. – That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap.
This is a turning point because up until now, Macbeth was a respectable man, who didn't feel the need to kill for the crown. But suddenly he decides he is going to go against everything he has believed in up till now.As the play comes to an end, Macbeth has gone mad. He kills Macduff's whole family, all the children, and even the young, innocent babies. He loses control and doesn't care about anyone or anything. He is now pure evil.Lady Macbeth has now realized her wrong doings. She realizes how cold and dark she once was.
In “Macbeth” written by William Shakespeare the main character Macbeth is a general in the Scottish army. After Macbeth and Banquo another general return from battle they encounter three witches the witches give Macbeth and Banquo three Prophesies. The witches prophesy that Macbeth will be made thane (a rank of Scottish nobility) of Cawdor and eventually King of Scotland. They also prophesy that Banquo will produce a line of Scottish kings although Banquo will never become king himself. King Duncan’s men come to thank the two generals for their victories in battle and to tell Macbeth that he has been named thane of Cawdor. The previous thane betrayed Scotland by fighting for the Norwegians and Duncan has condemned him to death. Macbeth’s wife Lady Macbeth hears about king Duncan coming to their castle and try’s to persuade Macbeth to murder king Duncan. He and Lady Macbeth plan to get Duncan’s two chamberlains drunk so they will black out; the next morning they will blame the murder on the chamberlains, who will be defenseless, as they will remember nothing. While Duncan is asleep, Macbeth stabs him, despite his doubts and a number of supernatural visions, including a vision of a bloody dagger. Macbeth now becomes king and Fearful of the witches’ prophecy that Banquo’s heirs will seize the throne, Macbeth hires a group of murderers to kill Banquo and his son Fleance. They ambush Banquo on his way to a royal feast, but they fail to kill Fleance, who escapes but kills Banquo. Lady Macbeth later kills herself while sleepwalking and Macbeth becomes depressed. Later Macduff comes with his army and beheads Macbeth. And Malcolm becomes king.
The witches give Macbeth two prophecies: Macbeth shall be first Thane of Cawdor and then King. In the mean time, Banquo was given the prophecy that his children shall be future kings. Macbeth and Banquo's relationship starts out strong at first, but their friendship fails as power comes into effect. In Act one, Macbeth and Banquo converse over the prophecies the three Weird Sisters have granted them. Macbeth tells Banquo, "Your children shall be kings (1: 3: 89)....
The most prophetic statement in the work is given by none other than the witches. As Macbeth approaches the hags, they great him by saying, “All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis! / All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor! / All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!” (I.iii. 47-50). The wicked women state the first two correctly; he is the thane of Glamis and the newly appointed thane of Cawdor. The third is correctly stated, yet the audience is unsure of this truth. Macbeth is not the current King, but fittingly all will “Hail him King”. This profound prediction lays the bedrock for the argument of fate. Once again, the witches have a control over Macbeth and merely suggest the possibility and leave the rest up to Macbeth.
The story mainly focuses on Macbeth’s subsequent actions that help to drive the story. However, in major contrast to most protagonists, Macbeth was not considered to be a hero. Lord Macbeth was described as being “damned in evils” (IV.iii.58-59) due to his maleficent rule of Scotland. Although not a protagonist, Macbeth was considered to be the main character of the play. Macbeth dominated every scene that he was in and dictated whether a character had to right to live or die. Throughout the course of the play, Macbeth is demonstrated to change greatly in demeanor. He begins the story being hesitant to commit crimes, as demonstrated by his hesitant nature to kill King Duncan “We will proceed no further in this business” (I.vii.31). However after Macbeth heard the witches prophecies, he switched his actions to actively condemning people to be killed, “The moment on‘t; for ‘t must be done tonight” (III.i.136) This change in mood from that of a collected demeanor to that of a ruthless killer helped Shakespeare establish Macbeth’s dynamic disposition. While Macbeth is demonstrated as an anti-hero, there are those who demonstrated the other side of the spectrum. While Macbeth was characterized as being cruel and dishonest, Banquo was honest to his king and did not seek further power, but rather accepted his rewards from King Duncan. Banquo is established as Macbeth’s foil mainly on the basis of the