Macbeth as King

Macbeth will be a greedy, selfish, and fearful and yet fearless leader because of his past actions of through indirect characteriation. Malcolm and Macduff talk of Macbeth and say how they are afraid to return because they think their wrong doings will make Macbeth look better than he is which shows the power of macbeth's persona. But when Ross comes and talks to them he says that Scotland is in rubbles and they need a true king who is not greedy or self minded to rule the kingdom which suggests that Macbeth is ruling poorly. As Ross continues to speak he hints at Macbeth's ruthlessness through his actions of slaughtering Macduff's family. Also, Macbeth will be too willing to please those around him and give in to persuasion as seen with his constant caving to Lady Macbeth and her conniving ways which is bad for the people because she has her own self interests of power in mind rather than the good for the people.

Macbeth act 4

- thunder with witches again

- witches out important body parts of animals in spell

- "a deed without a name"

- what does Macbeth want to know from the witches? Something about how even though things go bad they go good? Wants to know future?

- first apparition is head and warn Macbeth of thane of fife

- second is a bloody child who says no one can hurt Macbeth

- third is child crowned who says Macbeth won't be challenged and should be strong until great birnam comes

- Macbeth wants to know if banquo sins will ever rule

- 8 ghosts of banquo appear

- Macbeth starting to show cracks in sanity and ask Lennox if saw the witches and be says no so Macbeth questioning events 

- lady says Macduff driven by fear to run

- lady tells son father is dead and son is accepting 

- says that those who lie and sweat are treason and should be hanged by honest men 

- son dies 

- since Malcolm did bad makes Macbeth seem good even though he is bad

- Malcolm fearful of returning home 

- rumor that Macbeth killed macduffs family and Malcolm says use this to yiur advantage and let's get back at Macbeth 

If Macbeth was Good

If Macbeth did good things in life and actually earned his title and things he strived for then there wouldn't be a sense of questioning and struggle between good and bad. The readers feel for Macbeth and his tortured soul because we have all been down the path of choosing between what we want to do and taking the easy way to get it and the route of working hard. It is such a relatable subject matter, not the killing, but the idea of questioning yourself and what you really want and what you are willing to do to get it. The plot would revolve around Macbeth and him being this good guy who does the right things all the time and he would always triumph over the bad because that's how life works but really thats boring and not a tragedy. Macbeth wouldn't have died in the end from his bad deeds and no killing or action would have happened and everyone would have lived happily ever after and that wouldn't have been a historical play to last to where we are now. If he earned his title than there wouldn't be paranoia to take it away and justice would not have ever been served.

Macbeth act 3 reading notes

- Macbeth king and banquo saying prophecy right

- Macbeth trying to woe banquo by saying most valuable guest

- Macbeth fear banquo and his knowledge and good heart

- Macbeth order to kill banquo and son

- Macbeth paranoid from the murder and thinks people know it was him

- why does he go to wife for consoling and show his paranoid self and show weakness? 

- banquo dead but son escapes

- foreshadow that since son ran away he will come back and reveal Macbeth to everyone or attempted murder and increase macbeths paranoia 

- ghost of banquo shows up and this represents macbeths guilt 

- ghost increases macbeths craziness and Macbeth shows his distraught to his party members 

- Macbeth looks insane and this shows his evolution and change from confident man in eye if public to an individual who talks to nothing and hysterical

- thunder signify witches and dark magic?

- Macbeth done bad and not followed project right? 

- people starting to turn on Macbeth and think of him as bad and not deserving 

Act 2 Study Questions

Act 2

2.1

1.The opening gives a sense of forboding, things are not as they should be. The discussion serves to have Banquo acknowledge the weird sisters rather than claim they are a hallucination.
2. Macbeth is extremely stressed about having to Duncan and he is attempting to talk himself into committing the deed. He talks about it as if he is in a haze, a dream and he continues by making it a reality and committing the deed.

2.2

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2.3

2.3 1) The porter, in the third scene of act ii, is drunk and is pretending to be the Porter of the gate to hell. In the play, Macbeth has the trait of equivocation, where he manipulates his listener by circumlocution and the expectations of the other person without actually committing. For example, he does this when Lady Macbeth asks him to kill King Duncan.
2) The thematic function of Lennox describing the night as unruly was because that night was when King Duncan was killed by Macbeth. It was "unruly" not only for King Duncan but also for Macbeth because the guilt and fear of getting caught will always make him say and do things that might be suspicious, dark, and unruly. The scene is necessary to show Macbeth's transformation from the character before the murder vs. the character after the murder. This also connects back to what the witches had said earlier in the play: Fair is foul and foul is fair.
3) Macduff reports that the king has been murdered. Lady Macbeth appears to be horrified that this act could take place on his household. Macbeth is in encaged and kills the chamberlains. Malcolm and Donalbain decide to flee Malcolm and will go to England and Donalbain will go to Ireland. They're fleeing because they fear they will be murdered.

2.4

1. The function of the dialogue between Old Man and Ross is to discuss the strange happenings that have been occurring such as how an owl killed a falcon, the horses went wild and are one another, and several other things.  This wicked behavior symbolizes and foreshadows the promotion of Macbeth to the thrown. 

2. Macduff tells us from the castle that Macbeth has been made king by his fellow lords and that he will travel to Scone to receive the promotion and get crowned. He tells us that Malcolm and Donalbain are suspected of the murder of Duncan. They are suspected because they fled the scene. 

Macbeth character map

Macbeth – Lady Macbeth's husband and a Scottish nobleman, the Thane of Glamis. He is made Thane of Cawdor for his bravery in battle, and becomes King of Scotland by murdering the previous King, Duncan. As Macbeth opens, Macbeth is one of the great noblemen in Scotland: valiant, loyal, and honorable. He's also ambitious, and while this ambition helps to make him the great lord he is, once he hears the weird sisters' prophecy Macbeth becomes so consumed by his desire for power that he becomes a tyrannical and violent monster who ultimately destroys himself. What's perhaps most interesting about Macbeth is that he senses the murder will lead to his own destruction even before he murders Duncan, yet his ambition is so great that he still goes through with it.

Lady Macbeth – Macbeth's wife. Unlike her husband, she has no reservations about murdering Duncan in order to make Macbeth King of Scotland. She believes that a true man takes what he wants, and whenever Macbeth objects to murdering Duncan on moral grounds, she questions his courage. Lady Macbeth assumes that she'll be able to murder Duncan and then quickly forget it once she's Queen of Scotland. But she discovers that guilt is not so easily avoided, and falls into madness and despair.

Banquo – A Scottish nobleman, general, and friend of Macbeth. He is also the father ofFleance. The weird sisters prophesies that while Banquo will never be King of Scotland, his descendants will one day sit on the throne. Banquo is as ambitious as Macbeth, but unlike Macbeth he resists putting his selfish ambition above his honor or the good of Scotland. Because he both knows the prophecy and is honorable, Banquo is both a threat to Macbeth and a living example of the noble path that Macbeth chose not to take. After Macbeth has Banquo murdered he is haunted by Banquo's ghost, which symbolizes Macbeth's terrible guilt at what he has become.

Macduff – A Scottish nobleman, and the Thane of Fife. His wife is Lady Macduff, and the two have babies and a young son. Macduff offers a contrast to Macbeth: a Scottish lord who, far from being ambitious, puts the welfare of Scotland even ahead of the welfare of his own family. Macduff suspects Macbeth from the beginning, and becomes one of the leaders of the rebellion. After Macbeth has Macduff's family murdered, Macduff's desire for vengeance becomes more personal and powerful.

King Duncan – The King of Scotland, and the father of Malcolm and Donalbain.Macbeth murders him to get the crown. Duncan is the model of a good, virtuous king who puts the welfare of the country above his own and seeks, like a gardener, to nurture and grow the kingdom that is his responsibility. Duncan is the living embodiment of the political and social order that Macbeth destroys.

Malcolm – The older of King Duncan's two sons, and Duncan's designated heir to the throne of Scotland. Early in the play, Malcolm is a weak and inexperienced leader, and he actually flees Scotland in fear after his father is murdered. But Malcolm matures, and with the help of Macduff and an English army, Malcolm eventually overthrows Macbethand retakes the throne, restoring the order that was destroyed when Duncan was murdered.

Weird Sisters – Three witches, whose prophecy helps push Macbeth's ambition over the edge, and convinces him to murder Duncan in order to become King. The witches' knowledge of future events clearly indicates that they have supernatural powers, and they also clearly enjoy using those powers to cause havoc and mayhem among mankind. But it is important to realize that the witches never compel anyone to do anything. Instead, they tell half-truths to lure men into giving into their own dark desires. It's left vague in Macbeth whether Macbeth would have become King of Scotland if he just sat back and did nothing. This vagueness seems to suggest that while the broad outlines of a person's fate might be predetermined, how the fate plays out is up to him.

Fleance – Banquo's teenage son. Macbeth sees him as a threat because of the weird sisters' prophecy that Banquo's descendants will one day rule Scotland.

Lady Macduff – The wife of Macduff and the mother of Macduff's children (and the only female character of note in the play besides Lady Macbeth). She questions her husband's decision to leave his family behind when he goes to England to help Malcolmsave Scotland from Macbeth.

Lennox – A Scottish nobleman.

Ross – A Scottish nobleman.

Angus – A Scottish nobleman.

Donalbain – King Duncan's younger son and Malcolm's brother.

Hecate – The goddess of witchcraft.

http://www.litcharts.com/lit/macbeth/characters

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