When Macbeth is talking to Lady Macbeth he says, “I will, to the weird sisters: / More shall they speak,” (3.5.134-135). In this context Macbeth is anxious to go to the witches to see if he should fear anyone taking his newfound power from him. This shows that he has acquired what he wanted however he doesn’t feel secure, this shows that he relies on the witches for support and cannot think without first taking into consideration what the witches say. Before this
Friar Lawrence offers advice that hehimself does not follow. While his advice is well meaning, because he doesnot follow it, terrible events occur. The death of Romeo and Juliet, and,indirectly, Tybalt and Mercutio, are due to Friar Lawrence’s inability to backup his own advice with action. For example, had Friar Lawrence gone with hisown advice that marrying Romeo and Juliet would be too hasty, Romeo andJuliet would not have ended up dead. But, in the end, he married the coupletoo soon, eventually resulting in a disaster.
The witches make 2 predictions about Macbeth: that he will be thane of Cawdor and eventually, king. Banquo is surprised to see Macbeth looking frightened, asking why he would “seem to fear/ Things that do sound so fair…” (1.3). Banquo then demanded the witches speak to him. They told him that his children would be kings (“Thou shalt get kinds, though thou be none…”). After all this, Macbeth was still skeptical and curious of the predictions they had made, and asked them to explain.
At the beginning of Macbeth, Macbeth was feeling triumphant after coming back from the war and had no intentions of gaining more power than he already had, but when the witches found Banquo and himself they all greeted him and addressed him in different titles, witch 1 said, “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis.” This makes him think that the witches know somewhat about him, then witch 2 says, ‘All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor.” Macbeth not knowing that he is yet the Thane of Cawdor thinks that they must be lying but then a bit after the witches leave he finds out he is in fact the Thane of Cawdor and makes him think that the prophecy witch 3 made, “… That shalt be king hereafter!” is true. This shows that Macbeth never had full control of his desires even at the start of the play; the witches influenced him. Then later on Lady Macbeth pushes to him to pursue his desires.
Both Macbeth and Jack desire power too much, they get hungry for it and it becomes a corrupting force. Both characters are consumed with the desire to rule but while Jack enjoys his power when he becomes chief, Macbeth is tormented by fear and paranoia once he becomes king. Paragraph 1: Macbeth doesn’t seek power initially but the ambition for it is ignited when the three witches call him by his present title, the title he will gain and prophesise that he will be king. Their opening greetings, “All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!” “All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of
In Macbeth and Banquo’s encounter with three witches Banquo quickly starts questioning their human qualities by demanding that they prove their existence. After they prophesize that Macbeth will be king he says “If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me” (17). The reader can tell that Banquo at that point doubts the intentions of the witches, and does not take them seriously even when they give him a prophecy that not him, but his descendants will be kings. He is cautious and not tempted by the lure of the prophecies, therefore
This could possibly be the betrayl of a friendship for power. In the remainder of the scene the audience see Ross and Angus enter and tell Macbeth that due to his triumphant battle he is to be known forth as the Thane of Cawdor. This confuses Mabeth as it happens just after his encounter with the witches so much so he questions his fellow lords of the statement they made as up untill this point he belives that the late late Thane is alive. "Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:" This makes the audience think about what is going to come if the first of the witches predictions comes ture, this is also pointed out by Macbeth himself which makes the audience feel even more uneasy about Macbeths future actions. Macbeth then turns to Banquo to ask his opiion and recive accpetance from him, this would see through MAcbeths excitment see a plot building and a worry for the king "Do you not hope your children shall be kings, When those that gave the Thane of Cawdor to
He does not immediately believe the three witches, but instead questions how he would become the Thane of Cawdor instead of being king. In addition Macbeth’s rationality is also seen when he decides whether or not and reasons with his wife with regards of killing King Duncan. Macbeth believes that they should not go with killing King Duncan, but instead thinks indifferently and tells Lady Macbeth that “he (king Duncan) hath honored me of late, and I brought, Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss” (1.7.34-36). When Macbeth comes to know that “bloody instructions, which being taught return, To plague the inventor” (1.7.9-10), he says that if
Initially, Macbeth does not find reason in the Sisters’ fortune, but their prophecies mystify him, and he wants to hear more. The Sisters say, “All hail, Macbeth: hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!” (1.3.51). Macbeth cannot believe the Witches call him the Thane of Cawdor because the title belongs
In the beginning of the play, after Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth of the witch’s prophecy, she grew attached to the idea of being queen. With the belief that her happiness will bring them the love he wishes to gain, he strives to do everything in his power to maintain his wife’s happiness. Macbeth decides that he is against Duncan’s murder, and tells his wife “I dare do all that may become a man; do what is expected of him, but no more. He will not go from man to monster by killing the king. But Lady Macbeth taunts him, “When you durst do it, then you were a man” (1:7:49), continually hinting at