9/27/2023 0 Comments Act 1 scene 1 macbeth annotationsFirst Murderer It was, so please your highness. ![]() Shakespeare makes it clear that Macbeth has already spoken to the murderer. ![]() Was it not yesterday we spoke together? Macbeth reveals his true thoughts here about Banquo: he cannot bear the idea that one day Banquo’s children will become kings. And champion me to the utterance! Who’s there! Now go to the door, and stay there till we call. Life means nothing just like an idiot’s story which makes lots of noises and acts furiously while signifying no meaning.Macbeth Annotated Act 3 (3.1, 3.2 and 3.4) Act 3 Scene 1 MACBETH To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings! Rather than so, come fate into the list. Like a shadow, we vanish quickly and unreally. In life nothing matters, it is a part that we all have to play. Trying to act like a stoic, he is saying that tomorrow is actually the last of our all yesterdays because time creeps in so fast and life is like a brief candle. In Act 5 Scene V, after hearing the news of Lady Macbeth, his wife’s death, Macbeth is trying to pretend strongly by saying that she should have died some other time because right now he has no time to spare few words for her.īut we understand that he is already in deep despair as he loved his wife dearly and they were great partners. Out, out, brief candle! Life is 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.” Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this pretty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time, and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. “She should’ve died hereafter There would have been a time for such a word. That he is so deep in this course of action that to try to go back from here will require the same energy to go over it to the other side. Macbeth here realises that the crimes he has done can’t be undone anymore. “I am in blood, stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er.” It means, his own guilt can haunt so many pure consciences. Rather his blood crime is so grievous that it’ll render many seas red. killing Duncan is so vast that even Neptune’s ocean which is so immense can’t clean the mark of blood from his hand. He ponders imaginatively that his guilt for such an evil misdeed i.e. In Act 2 Scene II, Macbeth expresses the severity of his guilt in these sentences. “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” It nourishes one with the strength to go on in life. Apart from death, sleep is Nature’s second route to do so. He describes the peaceful sleep as something which cares of one’s soul at the end of the day and puts balm over one’s tired mind. He believes to sleep well one needs a peaceful and innocent conscience, not one stricken with guilt. It is one of his hallucinations which comes to him under the pressure of his haunted conscience. Macbeth says this after murdering Duncan in Act 2 Scene II. “Methought I heard a voice cry “sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep,” the innocent sleep, sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care, the death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, chief nourisher in life’s feast.” She wishes to be filled with qualities like extreme cruelty which is needed to achieve what she intends to and the lack of which binds her to the femininity which comes from her sex. ![]() Lady Macbeth wishes otherwise and wants the evil spirit to take away her womanliness. It is a culture which predetermines women as kinder and non-violent. This dialogue by Lady Macbeth in Act 1 Scene V reveals to us the social position of women of in that age when this play was written. “Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty!” For Lady Macbeth, “ the nearest way” is to murder so that both of them can acquire power faster. She is rejoicing over the prophecy but she fears Macbeth’s kind nature because he is required to be violent in order to achieve kingship. It shows how well she knows her husband and his nature. ![]() Lady Macbeth says this in Act 1 Scene V after reading the letter sent to her by Macbeth.
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