But in his death he confessed his sin and expressed his deep repentance. The Thane of Cawdor played false with the king, joined the king of Norway and laboured in the country’s wreck. “He died as one that had been studied in his death….”Ībout whom is this said? How is his death compared with his life? Has it any significance in the total pattern of the drama?Īns.Macbeth now finds it difficult to adjust himself to the new honours. However, they would be alright with the regular use. But they are new, and do not fit the body: They seem too big. He wants to wear the honours, i.e., enjoy them. Banquo explains his conduct by saying that he has been invested with new honours (the title of Cawdor and praises). Macbeth is ‘rapt’ at the thought of the witches and does not talk with Rosse and Angus who have come with good news for Macbeth. How does Banquo explain the rapt’ condition of Macbeth to Rosse and Angus? What is the imagery used here?Īns.The thought of murder is fanciful, but his power of action is lost in imagination. The terrible imagination causes his hair to stand on end and makes his fixed heart come out its right position and strike at his ribs. Suggestion means the temptation to win the crown of Scotland. Macbeth considers the good and evil of the prophecies of the witches. Why do I yield to that suggestion ? What suggestion is referred to? What is the effect of this yielding?Īns.He hopes that the prologues will swell to a crisis resulting in his attainment of kingship. For Macbeth, the two truths (his becoming the thane of Glamis and the thane of Cawdor) are prologues. A drama has prologue, crisis (climax) and catastrophe (conclusion). These two truths are prologues which mean in a drama introductions to the action, which, in Macbeth’s case swells into the theme of becoming the king. Thus two prophecies of the witches have proved true. The king has invested him with the title. Rosse informs Macbeth that he has been appointed the thane of Cawdor because the thane of Cawdor has proved faithless, and the king has sentenced him to death. By Sinel’s death, Macbeth has been the thane of Glamis. Macbeth is hailed by the witches as the thane of Glamis, the thane of Cawdor and the king hereafter. What are the prologues? What is the imperial theme? From where the image is taken?Īns. “Happy prologues to the swelling act of the imperial theme.”.But he is serious later, and warns his friend against being tempted by them. He is light-hearted at first because he is amused by the fear of Macbeth. Banquo, therefore, dismisses them as ‘instruments of darkness who tell us truths, win us with honest trifles and betray us in deepest consequence. They want to tempt Macbeth, because they know Macbeth is already tempted. But the witches answer when Macbeth asks them to speak. Banquo first sees the witches and addresses them.
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