Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7 Analysis

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Act 1 Scene 7 (Enter Macbeth) MACBETH If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well It were done quickly: 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. But in these cases We still have judgement here, that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague th’inventor: this even-handed justice Commends th’ingredients of our poisoned chalice To our own lips. He’s here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed: then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.…show more content…
Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there: go carry them and smear The sleepy grooms with blood. I’ll go no more. I am afraid to think what I have done: Look on’t again I dare not. Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures: ’tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I’ll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt. 55 60 (Takes the daggers) 65 (Exit) (Knock within) MACBETH Whence is that knocking? How is’t with me, when every noise appals me? What hands are here? Ha? They pluck out mine eyes. 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. My hands are of your colour, but I shame To wear a heart so white. — (Knock) - I hear a knocking At the south entry: retire we to our chamber. A little water clears us of this deed: How easy is it, then! Your constancy Hath left you unattended.— (Knock)- Hark! More knocking. Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us And show us to be watchers. Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts. To know my deed, ’twere best not know myself. (Knock) Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!…show more content…
Besides her walking what — at any time — have you heard her say? That, sir, which I will not report after her. You may to me, and ’tis most meet you should. Neither to you nor anyone, having no witness to confirm my speech. (They stand aside) DOCTOR LADY-IN-WAITING DOCTOR LADY-IN-WAITING DOCTOR LADY MACBETH DOCTOR LADY MACBETH How came she by that light? Why, it stood by her. She has light by her continually: ’tis her command. You see her eyes are open. Ay, but their sense are shut. Look how she rubs her hands. Yet here’s a spot. Hark, she speaks. I will set down what comes from her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly. Out, damned spot! Out, I say!— One: two: why then, ’tis time to do’t.— Hell is murky.— Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?— Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Do you mark that? The Thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?— What, will these hands ne’er be clean?— No more o’that, my lord, no more o’that: you mar all with this starting. Go to, go to: you have known what you should not. She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of that: heaven knows what she has known. Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O! What a sigh is there! The heart is
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