5. What word from the King to Macbeth and Banquo do Ross and Angus bring? Macbeth is bestowed the title of Thane of Cawdor.…
| At diner the ghost of Banquo presents itself to Macbeth. Macbeth begins talking to himself gaining unwanted attention from the guests and making himself look seriously mentally ill.…
Macbeth's reaction to the prophecies: “Stay you imperfect speakers”, “speak I charge you”, Macbeth is curious and brave.…
Macbeth thinks that Duncan “hath been so clear in his great office” (I.vii.17-18), and that he should be loyal to such a great and admired king, especially since he is their guest for the night.…
c. Conclusions First quote; no comparison yet. Macbeth is trying to make Banquo believe that Duncan's sons, not Macbeth, killed Duncan.…
Banquo they foretold Macbeth's and Banquo's future they told Macbeth that he will be a king, and they…
“but all’s too weak; / For brave Macbeth, – well he deserves that name, / Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel, / Which smok’d with bloody execution, / Like / valour’s minion carv’d out his passage / Till he fac’d the slave.”…
Macbeth is “rapt withal” while the prediction to become King after hearing the news that he is now the Thane of Cawdor. Banquo on the other hand thinks that these are mere lies told by the “instruments of darkness” gaining confidence with honest trifles, only to betray us”.…
c/ Macbeth is speaking to Lady Macbeth and is telling her how she must flatter and be nice to Banquo to hide her true intentions for murdering him.…
Macbeth’s temptation to help the witch’s prophecy is furthered by the fact that King Duncan will be going to Macbeth’s castle providing a perfect chance for Macbeth to try and fulfil the prophecy, from hence to inverness, and bind us further to you. It is also aided by the fact that the king has become very close and places utter faith in Macbeth thereby erasing any chance that Macbeth would be thought of as a traitor. That proportion both of thanks and payment might have been mine only I have left to say more is thy due that more than I can pay.…
—Banquo's reaction when it turns out that Macbeth has been named Thane of Cawdor, as the witches predicted.…
“For brave Macbeth – well he deserves that name – disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution, like valour’s minion carved out his passage till he faced the slave, which never shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, till he unseamed him from the nave to the chaps and fixed his head upon our battlements”…
I and the other nobles have not the faintest idea as to what is happening in Macbeth’s mind right now, and to think that this is our new king. He’s now shouting at the empty chair as if someone, or something, is on it. I tell the other nobles that maybe we should leave, and we all stand up to do so.…
Lady Macbeth was at her husband’s side as he ascended to the Thane of Cawdor and later king. Her Chambermaid noted, “She didn’t seem as happy once she became queen. It was as if she was disappointed because it wasn’t what she had thought it would be like.”…
Macbeth intends to sit down while he see Banqou’s ghost in his seat and says…