Cawdor Castle

dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing: It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes. (2.1.54-57) The “bloody business” is, of course, his plot to murder Duncan while he resides in Inverness, the Macbeths’ castle. His quote explains how before he even commits his crime, his mind is already feeling guilt from his ambition and Lady Macbeth’s prodding and spiteful words. Afterwards, his guilt intensifies to the point where he becomes crazed. In…

War, murder, and Tyranny. All of these things are aspects of a ghastly dictator, a person who has no regard for their own wellbeing or the wellbeing of others. Unfortunately in the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare the protagonist Macbeth, is this dictator. Macbeth was manipulated, and manipulated others into doing horrible tasks to fulfil a prophesy that was given to him by three weird sisters. He started out as a war hero who had amazing sword wielding capabilities, but he later used his…

fear, Macbeth has Macduff’s family killed because after he receives the witches’ prophecies. Following that act, he suffers with the guilt of his decision as he debates whether or not he should battle a man who now has no family. After the Thane of Cawdor sends for Banquo and Fleance to be killed, he endures intense feelings of remorse and also hallucinates because he realizes that it is his fault that Banquo will not be attending the banquet. Finally, the most evident example of Macbeth’s…

back within Shakespeare 's time period. Back then, they used to tie bears to a stake within an arena and then have dogs attack the bear for the audience 's amusement. Macbeth is referencing this because he realized that he is “staked” at his current castle like the bears, and the army that is coming to attack him would be the…

the Act progresses. Through the use of various literary devices, the disturbed and graphic thoughts of Macbeth, Mono Syllabic writing, and stage direction, Shakespeare completely constructs the atmosphere of fear and dramatic tension in Macbeth’s castle. Shakespeare’s opens Act 2, and immediately, the reader can gather the suspicion that something is not right, Banquo speaks to the fact that he is unsettled…

The Nature of Blood in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the African Political Space By Segun Omosule Ph. D Department of English, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye.08052037088; jala1964@yahoo.com/omosulesegun@gmail.com/www.scholarsviews.com ABSTRACT The preoccupation of this paper is to prove that Macbeth and the orgies that are associated with him are borne out of fear and that the series of killings that are recorded during his reign are meant to prove that he is a fearless soldier and…

'when you durst do it, then you were a man. /And to be more than what you were, you would/Be so much more the man.' This convinces Macbeth to commit regicide, because being one of the bravest men in Scotland, he could not stand being called a coward. He has to prove to his wife that he still is big and masculine. Although Macbeth has the final say in whether or not to go ahead with the initial killing, he loves his wife and wants to make her happy. Lady Macbeth is…

and needs to be killed off. Macbeth later finds out he has fled to England and is consumed by rage. Having no filter to his evil schemes and actions, he sends his people to kill and rape lady Macduff and her son, but also wreck havoc in Macduff’s Castle. Macbeth has decided to become whom fate has destined him to become, an evil man, a vile person shedding nobility and leaving behind his compassion and sanity. Macbeth has let his mind run wild and hinder him from making any rational…

is faced with severe cases of paranoia. Macbeth scares the reader when he says, “From this moment / The very firstlings of my heart shall be / The firstlings of my hand. And even now, / To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done: / The castle of Macduff I will surprise, / Seize upon Fife, give to th ' edge o ' th ' sword / His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate…

corruption and the desire for power can be seen in Act I scene III of Macbeth, where Macbeth and Banquo stumble upon three witches. The witches chant to them ‘All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis! All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!’. This clearly has an immediate effect on Macbeth as Banquo asks him, ‘Good sir, why do you start; and seem to fear things that do sound so fair?’. It is clear that the witches awoke…