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How does Macbeth react to the new prophecy?

In the play Macbeth seems to be disgusted with the prophecy but can also seem confused. We see this when he says to the witches ‘Why do you show me this?!’ And ‘Thy crown does sear my eyes.

Was Macbeth wrong to demand more prophesies?

I think Macbeth was wrong to demand more prophesies. We see this in the text because the witches do not answer his questions and disappear on him asking. I also think  he does not deserve more questions and the witches think he same, for the reason that Macbeth had insulted them in the form of calling them, Hags. We see earlier in the play that anyone that has disrespected the 3 witches had met an unfortunate end, could this be Macbeth’s fate and why he did not have an hier before his death.

Time, thou anticipat’st my dread exploits.

I think this means that Macbeth is about to commit a terrible deed. He will use the deed to exploit power and I think he will regret the decision.

Scene 1

Banquo suspects that Macbeth killed the king but is at joy at the second half of the prophecy, that his own children would be king. Banquo is invited to come to the Macbeths’ palace.

Scene 2

Macbeth is at his palace before Banquo arrives. He is worried that the monarchy will rise and learn that Macbeth killed the king and framed the lords. Lady Macbeth eases his worry proving further that she is the puppet master in the situation.

Scene 3

We open with the three suspected murderers as they hear a sound, they think it is Macbeth joining them but it is Banquo. The three murderers attack Banquo. Banquo says treachery and is murdered. The man with Banquo, Fleance escapes with Banquo’s body.

Act 2 Scene 2: Macbeth and Lady Macbeth both change in this Scene as Macbeth sees himself as a murderer and says he will sleep no more, where as Lady Macbeth seems more powerful and more like a puppet master than ever.

Quote: Macbeth: “sleep no more Macbeth does murder sleep.”

Act 2

Scene 1: Banquo and hos son are wandering the halls of Macbeth’s castle when the see Macbeth Banquo tells him that he had had a dream of the 3 sisters and when Banquo exits Macbeth had a vision of a clean dagger turned bloody

Scene 2: Lady Macbeth enters where she sees Macbeth with two bloody daggers. She asks weather the lords had been drunk enough for the blame to be place upon them. Macbeth talks about sleep and that he would sleep no more.

Scene 3: We open with the porter who appears to be drunk. We know that Macbeth had just killed the king but nobody else does the porter has a soliloquy where he talks about death and hell a lot. Macduff and Lennox enter through a knocking door they talk with the porter until Macbeth enters bearing the news of the kings death. They ring a bell calling of treason and murder though yet they do not know who killed the king. Enter Lady Macbeth who asks what happened. Malcom, the kings son, is told that his father had been murdered and when he ask who the culprit was the blame is placed upon the lords in the same chamber as the king, just as Lady Macbeth and Macbeth had wanted.

How does Lady Macbeth text when Macbeth says ‘we will go no further in the business”?

Lady Macbeth comes across passive aggressive before Act 1 Scene 7, but during this Scene we see she is very controlling and manipulative. She uses insults to take away people’s ambition and can use others to her advantage. She is often written as a snake by using sibilance, ‘with this surcease, success’, the reference to a snake suggests she is sly and cunning when she wants to be. As snake are seen as dangerous and untrustworthy in society, the use of the snake suggests that Lady Macbeth will betray Macbeth in the future. She also reacts in a way that people will see her as a bully and an  agressive person, we see this when she says, ‘screw your courage to the sticking place’. She also calls Macbeth a coward this shows that she try’s to make people think their choices are theirs when they are hers.

Scene 1-

We open the play with 3 witches chanting around the thunder roars. The exit to go and confront Macbeth. The line that is most memorable is “fair is foul, foul is fair”.

Scene 2-

At a battle camp King Duncan awaits the commander where he asks of Macbeth. The commander says Macbeth had won them the battle and that he had stabbed a man from his knaves to his chaps in the heart of battle. He says that Banquo had also shown great courage and that the Thane of Cawdor had betrayed them out of fear the king orders the Thane be put to death and Macbeth take his place. A man named Ross leaves to tell Macbeth the news.

Scene 3-

Thunder roars once again and the three witches appear once more. One with says Macbeth is coming and they all stop him and Banquo on the journey to the palace. They address Macbeth as Thane of Cawdor and tell the two of a prophecy that Macbeth rise to be king. Macbeth says this cannot be true. The witches continue and say that Banquo will not be king but his children will. He is shocked by this and both men demand more however the witches were gone as fast as they appeared. The two men discuss what they had heard but they are still confused.

Scene 4-

Macbeth and Banquo arrive at the palace and the king thanks them if there bravery in battle. He also appoints his son Malcom to the throne, Macbeth is joyed by this but he now knows that Malcom stands in the way of his kingship.

Scene 5-

Lady Macbeth reads the letter sent to here by Macbeth. It tella her of the prophecy and his promotion of Thane of Cawdor. She knows Macbeth would be able to become king but fears he may be too weak to be disloyal. She then knows that she has to convince him that he is to do anything he needs to gain the throne. She then hears that the king is visiting and will stay until tomorrow, she then hears that Macbeth will be arriving with him. When Macbeth enters she tells him that the king will not see the light of tomorrow.

Scene 6-

The king arrives and Lady Macbeth and Macbeth welcome him along with the other lords in attendance.

Scene 7-

Macbeth is torn on the assassination of the king. He knows that the only reason to kill the king is out of his own greed and ambition. Lady Macbeth enters saying that the king wishes for Macbeths presents. He declares that he will no longer kill the king. She is mortified and calls him a coward and says that they will kill him during his sleep. She says they will get the lords drunk and then kill the king, they should then put the kings blood on the lords placing the blame upon them.

Right now I am reading The Flash: Rebirth (2016). The events take place after the result of the DC universe reboot, this is a way DC restarts their universe and all their heroes.

Barry Allen is a CSI at the Central City Police department – the CCPD – but he also is the bearer of a great secret, he is the Flash. The Flash can harness a power called the speed force, this allows him to move at a much faster rate than anything else. Because of his speed he regenerates faster than usual and ages slower. He is the only speedster alive until an explosion happens at the place the speed force can be contained. The explosion causes many people to be able to harness the speed force and Barry must try to stop some of these people going rogue.

However not all comply with Barry, one of these goes by the name of Godspeed. Barry must overcome this evil speedster but this time he may not be fast enough.

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And yet wouldst wrongly win

We open on a dark scene, a rock filled with black smoke and a flame in the centre. Three witches surrounded the flame. The first in a black robe and a withered face. The second in a longer robe with a crown on their head made of orc bones. The third in a mask similar to the known mask worn by the ringraith only broken and cracked

King Witch

(gloomy voice) When shall we meet again? In lightning, thunder or in rain?

The first witch

When the hurlyburly’s done, when the battle is lost and won.

The masked witch

That will be ere the set of sun.

King Witch

Where the place?

The masked

Upon the heath.

The Withered

There to meet with Macbeth.

King witch

I come, Graymalkin!

The Masked

Paddock calls.

The Withered

Anon.

ALL

Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
Exeunt

Scene 2

The stage is set to rivendale, a la. We see the high elf Duncan, an elf sergeant and a dwarf named Lennox, a human named Malcom and a wealthy hobbit Ross.

DUNCAN
What bloody man is that?

MALCOLM
This is the sergeant
Who like a good and hardy soldier fought
‘Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend!
Say to the king the knowledge of the broil
As thou didst leave it.

Sergeant
Doubtful it stood;
For brave Macbeth–well he deserves that name–
Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valour’s minion carved out his passage
Till he faced the slave;
Which ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,
Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps,
And fix’d his head upon our battlements.

DUNCAN
O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!

Sergeant
As whence the sun ‘gins his reflection
Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break,
So from that spring whence comfort seem’d to come
Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark:
No sooner justice had with valour arm’d
Compell’d these skipping kerns to trust their heels,
But the Norweyan lord surveying vantage,
With furbish’d arms and new supplies of men
Began a fresh assault.

DUNCAN
Dismay’d not this
Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?

Sergeant
Yes;
As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.
If I say sooth, I must report they were
As cannons overcharged with double cracks, so they
Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:
Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,
Or memorise another Golgotha,
I cannot tell.
But I am faint, my gashes cry for help.

DUNCAN
So well thy words become thee as thy wounds;
They smack of honour both. Go get him surgeons.
Exit Sergeant.

MALCOLM
The worthy thane of Ross.

LENNOX
What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look
That seems to speak things strange.

ROSS
God save the king!

DUNCAN
Whence camest thou, worthy thane?

ROSS
From Fife, great king;
Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky
And fan our people cold. Norway himself,
With terrible numbers,
Assisted by that most disloyal traitor
The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;
Till that Bellona’s bridegroom, lapp’d in proof,
Confronted him with self-comparisons,
Point against point rebellious, arm ‘gainst arm.
Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude,
The victory fell on us.

DUNCAN
Great happiness!

ROSS
That now
Sweno, the Norways’ king, craves composition:
Nor would we deign him burial of his men
Till he disbursed at Saint Colme’s inch
Ten thousand dollars to our general use.

DUNCAN
No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive
Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death,
And with his former title greet Macbeth.

ROSS
I’ll see it done.

DUNCAN
What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won.