/ And oftentimes, to win us to out harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths,/ Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s/ In deepest consequence” (I.iii.121). Macbeth ignores Banquo’s idea, and instead further investigates the concept that he may one day be King. He considers whether the crown will fall into his hands, or if he will have to complete a dark deep in order to obtain it. The witches successfully plant the destructive idea into Macbeth’s head. Macbeth has a huge character flaw.
/ Not so happy yet much happier. / Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none. / So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo.”(19) These words put thought of usurpation in Macbeth’s head, and already his greed was taking over. Banquo gives fair warning to Macbeth about caution over the words, stating “The intstruments of darkness tell us truths, / Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s / In deepest consequence.” (23) But later, Banquo fell under the spell of greed, knowing his children would become Kings. “Thou hast it now—King, Cawdor, Glamis, all / As the Wëird Women promised, and I fear / Thou played’st most foully for ‘t.
Guilt before and after ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me’: hallucination from guilt “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?” “Let not light see my black and deep desires” Ambition Quotes “ I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition” is metaphor to show ambition is the only thing that is keeping him going “unsex me here, and fill me…. Of dirtest cruelty” is figurative language that shows “I am thane of Cawdor. If good, why do I yield…. Against the use of nature” exposes macbeth’s ambition as witches were giving neutral prophecy that he becomes king. He himself thinks he has to kill.
| 2.3 | MACBETH TO MACDUFF Saying | Meaning | Location | Who can be wise, amazed, temp’rate, and furious, loyal and neutral in a moment? No man. Th’ expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason. Here lay Duncan, his silver skin laced with his golden blood, and his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature for ruin’s wasteful entrance; there are murderers, steeped in the colors of their traded, their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore. Who could refrain that had a heart to love, and that heart courage to make’s love know?
We are introduced to a majorly significant and complex character, named Curley’s wife. Steinbeck shows us that Curley’s wife is flirtatious, mischievous (despite the patriarchal society of the 1930’s) but most of all she is an isolated character. Her hasty marriage to Curley proves to be failed attempt to escape her own spiral of disappointment of not fulfilling her ambition of becoming an actor. This ironically is a main theme in both texts. This essay will analyse and compare the presentation of Lady Macbeth and Curley's wife through the structure, themes, what is said about them, their actions and what they themselves say.
Macbeth then begins to ponder the power of fate. However at the same time, Banquo understands the role that free will plays when he quotes I. iii. 158-160 “New honors came upon him,/ Like ouir strange garments, cleave not/ to their mold/ But with the aid of use.” I. ii. 8-12 “And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling/ Showed like a rebel’s whore, but all’s too weak:/ For brave Macbeth-- well he deserves that name--/ Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel,/ Which smoked with bloody executions,” A bleeding captain returns from the battlefield and describes to Duncan and Malcolm the victory of Macbeth
Bad company corrupts good character. The Once and Future King, by T.H. White, tells of an ill made night whose name was Lancelot. Lancelot’s displeasing appearance required that he do something with his life that did not have a prerequisite for a pretty face, or charming looks; he needed something that took the eyes off of him, and on to the actions he preformed. Knighthood fit that bill very well.
Yet do I fear thy nature, / It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way.” (I.V.15-18).These lines tell how much she wants power so bad that she makes Macbeth feel unmanly by telling what she could do. Lady Macbeth shows devotion to making Macbeth King by planning ways that he can become king.
The devil, or the evil spirits, take up many disguises, one of which is through Lady Macbeth. Our tragic hero does not realize that every murder will come back to haunt him. We begin to see the slippery slope Macbeth slides down as he promptly kills his best friend, Banquo, and attempts to murder Banquo’s only child, Fleance, without any outside influences. He was content killing his closest ally because he worries about the witches prophecy that “the seeds of Banquo’s kings, rather than so, come fate into the list, and champion me to the utterance…” (III.I.70-73). Even when you believe Macbeth cannot be any worse he slaughters Macduff’s entire family when he hears Macduff has fled to England; he said that he would “give to the edge o’the sword his wife, babes, and all unfortunate souls that trace him in his line”.
Reigns that which would be fear’d. ‘Tis much he dares, And to that dauntless temper of his mind,” (Act 3, Scene 1, line 51-52) → Macbeth referring to Banquo; there’s something overpowering in his natural nobility of character that I should be afraid of. • “Which of you have done this?” (Act 3, Scene 4, line 49) • “This is the very painting of your fear; This is the air-drawn dagger which you said” (Act 3, Scene 4, lines 61-62) → Lady Macbeth says this to Macbeth when Macbeth sees hallucinations of a ghost • “Alack, I am afraid they have awak’d” (Act 2, Scene 2, line 9) → Lady Macbeth says this to Macbeth after they both hear noises • “I’ll go no more, I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on’t again, I dare not.” (Act 2, Scene 2, lines 53-55) → Macbeth says this to Lady Macbeth after killing King Duncan • “It cannot be ill, it