That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold.What hath quenched them hath given me fire.Hark!

The words themselves seem nonsensical.

repetition,rule of three and aspirate sounds. hath it slept since?And wakes it now, to look so green and paleAt what it did so freely? with the oxymoron. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair:Hover through the fog and filthy air. contrast to Macbeth, as Banquo wants to know the truth, but later in the play Macbeth tries to cover it up. Such acts show that both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth equate masculinity with naked aggression, and whenever they converse about masculinity, violence soon follows.

“For brave Macbeth—well he deserves that name”. Be comforted.Let’s make us med’cines of our great revenge,To cure this deadly grief.

Were I from Dunsinane away and clear,Profit again should hardly draw me here.

The emphasis falls on the first syllable: Fair is foul, and foul is fair. They do not tell him by what route he will arrive at the throne. As in other Shakespearean tragedies, Macbeth’s grotesque murder spree is accompanied by a number of unnatural occurrences in the natural realm.

Macbeth! Themes: Fate/Fortune, Nature vs Supernatural, Ambition. 1.1.2 Betrayal. We see this right... What is the moral of Macbeth and why did Shakespeare write the play? ‘I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself’. lead to basically everything, 1.1.2.2.2.2.1.1.1 'Fair is foul and foul is fair, hover

Was the hope drunkWherein you dress’d yourself? Thane of Cawdor executed for being a “disloyal traitor”. ", APPEARANCE VS REALITY Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7, THE SUPERNATURAL Lady Macbeth and Macbeth Act 3 Scene 2, "When you durst do it, then you were a man. The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements.

Even the cartoon Simpson family embraced the metaphor with a melodramatic rendition by Homer Simpson. This bait works more on his wife Lady Macbeth than on him. It is the decision that he makes that will decide the course of his life and thus whether the play becomes a tragedy (where the hero is defeated through a fatal flaw) or a comedy (where the hero achieves his goals or overcomes an obstacle to gain an even more honorable position). Now o’er the one half-worldNature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuseThe curtained sleep. oxymorons emphasise this possible supernatrual element and shows the witches power. Unsure if the Witches are good or bad, Banquo knows they’re evilHumouros- the play is still in the begining of Act One, and the plot is starting to thicken. They have tied me to a stake.
To "murder sleep" has a double meaning. What's good ("fair") is evil ("foul").

There is none but heWhose being I do fear, and under himMy genius is rebuked, as it is saidMark Antony’s was by Caesar. Naught that I am,Not for their own demerits, but for mine,Fell slaughter on their souls.

Shakespeare's witches, however, chant in trochees. Down!Thy crown does sear mine eyeballs.

Tell me, if your artCan tell so much: shall Banquo’s issue everReign in this kingdom?

The son of Duncan—From whom this tyrant holds the due of birth—Lives in the English court and is receivedOf the most pious Edward with such graceThat the malevolence of fortune nothingTakes from his high respect. Unnatural deedsDo breed unnatural troubles. ( Log Out /  play because of his motivation to do what he needs Indeed, James granted Shakespeare’s company the greatest possible compliment by bestowing upon its members the title of King’s Men. ‘Methought I heard a voice cry Sleep no more; Macbeth does murder sleep’, Themes: guilt and madness; evil/darkness vs grace/light, 12.

The most influential writer in all of English literature, William Shakespeare was born in 1564 to a successful middle-class glove-maker in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Lady Macbeth is beggining to regret her actions- early signs of guilt. Thou liest, abhorrèd tyrant.

Further symbolic of Scotland under Macbeth’s tyranny later on- nationwide shock & fear, “All hail Macbeth…”, “All hail Macbeth…”, “All hail Macbeth…”- Each Witch. The effect and it!

Witches were thought to control crops, and could choose whether the whole crop for that harvest was ruined or good.

Or be alive again,And dare me to the desert with thy sword.If trembling I inhabit then, protest meThe baby of a girl.

The three witches simply tell him that he will be king. The bloodbath swiftly propels Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to arrogance, madness, and death.Macbeth was most likely written in 1606, early in the reign of James I, who had been James VI of Scotland before he succeeded to the English throne in 1603.

They tell us that nothing is as it seems. If th’assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success: that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all, here, But here upon this bank and shoal of time, We’d jump the life to come. Macbeth knows that because of this action, he will never be able to rest peacefully.

Peace!

way. order to get to power, he murdered them, nothing to get to the power he desired and makes

“Fear not, till Birnam woodDo come to Dunsinane”; and now a woodComes toward Dunsinane.—Arm, arm, and out!—If this which he avouches does appear,There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here.I ‘gin to be aweary of the sun,And wish th’ estate o’ th’ world were now undone.—Ring the alarum-bell!—Blow, wind!

Come, wrack!At least we’ll die with harness on our back. Each new mornNew widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrowsStrike heaven on the face, that it resoundsAs if it felt with Scotland and yelled outLike syllable of dolor.

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you.

On the most basic level, it means that things are reversed.To expand on that a little bit, it means two related things in general.

Why, it stood by her.

Everything is strangely reversed.

Anaphora- repletion of words at the beginning of successive sentences.

Here, Macbeth acknowledges that ambition is his only motivation ("spur") to commit murder. — To bed, to bed, to bed! ‘All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter.’, 3.

What’s more to do,Which would be planted newly with the time,As calling home our exiled friends abroadThat fled the snares of watchful tyranny,Producing forth the cruel ministersOf this dead butcher and his fiendlike queen,Who, as ’tis thought, by self and violent handsTook off her life; this, and what needful elseThat calls upon us, by the grace of Grace,We will perform in measure, time, and place.So, thanks to all at once and to each one,Whom we invite to see us crowned at Scone.

“I’ll gild the faces of the grooms withal”, gild- decorative metaphorical image of painting the faces. ‘Stars hide your fires/let light not see my black and deep desires’, Themes: ambition, evil/darkness vs grace/light, Themes: Appearance vs Reality, Nature and the Supernatural, Evil/Darkness vs Grace/Light, Just before this line (opening lines of play), When shall we three meet again? this proves Banquo to be incredibly brave, and his character would have gained the respect of the Jacobean Audience.
Whereas Shakespeare’s other major tragedies, such as Hamlet and Othello, fastidiously explore the intellectual predicaments faced by their subjects and the fine nuances of their subjects’ characters, Macbeth tumbles madly from its opening to its conclusion.