“There shall be no way, Anyone or anywhere past this far, vast, great land who should know of the criminal who killed Banquo, Only the crime. We have come such a troublesome way, and shall there be interference between you and taking that throne? We will come together to kill again. It was prophesied for goodness sakes my love. We are only speeding up what shall soon come to pass.” “Yes, This is what i've overheard the two murderers speak of as i was serving them.” “Now pass it on, you didn't hear this from me, don't let this die down”. “Tell the entire land if you wish, just make sure justice will be served and pardon not these workers of evil.”
As word spreads over the entire land, like asked, even children could be heard speaking of the suspicions risen ever since a castle worker spoke out about the overheard malicious acts made by
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“Kill them!” “Let them feel how Banquo felt when they murdered him”, “do it by the knife!” one child screamed which led to a whole crowd of kids screaming. “Or we could just make a grave next to Banquo's and push them in it,” a town soldier softly said. “I think you're onto something, We won't sleep until they are put to sleep” “forever!”, someone from the back murmured. Back at the castle at morning comes Macbeth wakes up crying to his wife, saying i had a dream i was buried in dirt, dirt, blood, dirt, dirt...So much blood and dirt. It is not so lady Macbeth said. “Look, as soon the funeral is over we will take our bags and leave, do not speak of this to anyone, no one shall know. “We will go somewhere far far away just act normal, please.” We did what we had to do, if the crown is not ours we will reside somewhere else. An old place among the mountains and we will rule that land with our kids now go, hurry get dressed, stop acting like a baby and
Macbeth then learns that the king with be coming to visit him at his castle, Inverness. He writes a letter to his wife, telling her of the witches’ predictions and of the king’s upcoming visit. Right away evil thoughts come to her mind. She begins to plan his death and how Macbeth will then rise to the top and be king. She so desperately wants her husband to be king.
Lady Macbeth once thought that she would be able to wash herself clean of the horrors she once committed. This is not possible for she is so full of guilt that now her hands are completely covered in blood. Lady Macbeth feels as if she cannot escape the evils of her past, she is trapped in the evils of the present. Lady Macbeth is trapped even in her sleep of the evils she and her husband have committed.
Upon his return home, Macbeth and his Lady decided upon a course of action that was dastardly and by no means legitimate. The terrible twosome prepared to assassinate their good King Duncan, in order to clear the way for Macbeth to take the throne. On his way to Duncan’s chambers, Macbeth is visited by a hallucination of a bloody dagger, floating in the air before his eyes. This leaves him shaken, questioni...
“Blood hath been shed ere now.../The time has been/That when the brains were out, the man would die, /And there an end. But now they rise again…” (3.4.91-96). The ghost of Banquo visited the Macbeth’s house, which left Macbeth feeling quite unsettled. Macbeth is the only person who can see the ghost; he experienced a mental breakdown when Banquo’s ghost visited during a dinner party. Lady Macbeth attempted to conceal her husband’s erratic behavior by claiming he was feeling ill. “It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.” (3.4.151). Macbeth is beginning to experience a sense of paranoia, a direct result of his degrading mental state. Lady Macbeth believed her husband was being foolish, as she had not yet experienced the damaging effects of their moral depravity.
Macbeth begins on a bloody note: a battle rages from which Banquo and Macbeth survive bloodied, but heroes. They are the generals of Scotland; the country’s future is in their hands and in their blades. However, when one clutches once to such power, it is hard to let go. Macbeth cannot let go. Macbeth also ends on a bloody note: Macbeth’s head is cut off and presented to Malcolm, his replacement. Peace is restored through war; bloody injustice is righted finally with bloody justice. What falls between these two notes—the beginning and end of the tragedy—is a symphony of treachery, deceit, and murder. The images of nature gone awry spread all through the play—from the gardens that have turned to weeds to the horses that have turned to cannibalizing each other—for murder of one’s king is so unnatural that the entire landscape, all that is natural, is affected. Macbeth, by killing Duncan, is himself made an enemy of nature. Macbeth murders sleep, the ultimate embodiment of peace and nature, when he murders Duncan. However, the title character is not as evil as is first suggested; Macbeth is only led to his evil deeds by those who surround him. Macbeth’s only crime may be that he is weak minded and afraid. Macbeth was lured and cajoled into his mistakes by his wife and the weird sisters.
As people live their lives, they will be met with various partial truths and misleading pieces of evidence, but Shakespeare reminds us in Macbeth that people should be cautious of the words they believe. They should judge the speaker’s character before they accept anything spoken by them even if there is partial truth in the words being spoken. Set in eleventh century Great Britain, Macbeth begins with the titular character, Macbeth, killing the armies of the Irish and Norwegians for his king, Duncan. He then receives a prophecy from three witches that he will be the future king of Scotland, which leads him down a dark and bloodied road. Deception is a key theme of this book for it is how the protagonist, Macbeth, is lead astray from loyalty to his king.
They tell Banquo that he will not be king himself but he will have his descendants as kings:
" They then tell Banquo that his sons will be kings but he will never rule a King. This news frightens Macbeth and both try to dismiss these ideas. This is until one of the king... ... middle of paper ... ... an born shall harm Macbeth."
The planning of Banquo and Fleance's murders are cruel and ironic. It almost seems he is taking delight in speaking about Duncan's supposed murderers, Malcolm and Donalbain, knowing that he is the real killer: Our bloody cousins are bestowed/ In England and Ireland, not confessing/ Their cruel parricide.
As Lady Macbeth’s confidence begins to falter, the result from her vaulting ambition, guilt, is demonstrated through the figurative use of blood. In the beginning of Act 5, the Gentlewomen and Doctor are seen discussing the strange behavior of Lady Macbeth. When suddenly, Lady Macbeth proceeds on to the stage, while sleeping, and complains about the endless blood on her hands, “Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Ar...
The tone of Macbeth is dark and ominous and it is used to arouse feeling within the audience, which prognosticates the destruction to be brought upon by the protagonist’s immoral ambitions. The dialogue by Macbeth, “Blood will have blood,”(3, Ⅳ) stirs sinister feelings among the audience, which foreshadows the continuous bloodshed yet to happen due to him and Lady Macbeth in their attempt to further secure their dominance. When Hecate vows to ruin Macbeth, stating how “security/ Is mortals’ chiefest enemy,” the audience is indicated of the fatal end that awaits Macbeth’s excessive confidence and ambition. As Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth, “Sleep no more,” it indicates not only sleepless nights but its foreboding tone has a deeper meaning conveying the consequences that are expected for the sin he has committed. Thus, the tone of Macbeth was an effective literary device employed by Shakespeare to communicate this particular
(II, ii, 35) His innocence was killed and he knows that he has to live with this guilt for the rest of his life, hence Macbeth will never sleep peacefully ever again. After each successive murder, Macbeth becomes more and more inhumane. “I am in blood Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o 'er.” (III, iv, 143-145)
He no longer is the innocent soldier he once way, he now has “unclean hands”. Lady Macbeth however, assumes his innocence. She claims she cannot murder Duncan herself because Duncan looks to much like her sleeping father. She is all words and no actions. Macbeth is devoid of any human emotions as the play goes on, and Lady Macbeth assumes the emotional role. Lady Macbeth begins to have dreams in which she cannot get the blood off her hands, and ultimately commits suicide from guilt of her actions. This breakdown of Lady Macbeth really highlights how inhuman the murder of Duncan has made Macbeth.
A.C. Bradley’s interpretation of Macbeth finds him human, conflicted, and comparable to his wife, Lady Macbeth, in many respects. They share a common ambition and a common conscience sensitive enough to feel the effects of their ambition. But the story, Bradley contends, is built upon the traits that set them apart. He focuses mainly on Macbeth. Macbeth is a character of two battling halves: his reason, or ambition, and his “imagination.” Bradley attributes the hysterical nature of Macbeth’s visions, the dagger, the specter of Banquo, and other ghosts, to his wild imagination. He “acts badly” (Bradley, 136) and loses his composure whenever his imagination triumphs over his practical side; however, Bradley also asserts that Macbeth’s imagination is “the best of him, something usually deeper and higher than his conscious thoughts” (133). Macbeth is therefore unable to make use of the “better” imagination with which he was endowed and instead only appears “firm, self-controlled and practical” when he is “hateful” (136). A product of these clashing sides, Macbeth’s murder of Duncan is borne of his inability to properly acknowledge the conclusions drawn by his imagination. In his soliloquies and in...
Macbeth’s story highlights the inherent goodness found in all of us, but also the evil that lurks within us, unnourished. Although there is no redemption for Macbeth’s evil sins, he finally comes to acknowledge his crimes and thus can provoke pity in the eyes of the audience. Macbeth’s psychological journey from a courageous general to a “ dead butcher” (5.9.41) is one that truly merits to be called a tragedy.