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Back in the old country, the Sicilian Catholics had placed great significance upon supernatural messages and prophecies. When Mac...

(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...

his carefully crafted public persona. For an ambitious couple like Lord and Lady Macbeth, in a monarchy like Scotland, there was ...

people who dabbled in witchcraft were conspiring with "the Devil" (Fripp 646). According to St. Paul, "And then shall that wicke...

air. Banquos reaction to Macbeth taking their pronouncements seriously is one of mocking disbelief, as if to say, "you believe tha...

Macbeth says only "We will speak further" (I, v, 71). The next time we see Macbeth he has a long soliloquy in which he enumerates...

the fact that they make predictions. Unlike the psychic hotline, the sisters seem to single him out. It does not appear as if he w...

King Duncan naming his loyal lieutenant Macbeth Thane of Cawdor in recognition for his faithful service. But a fateful meeting wi...

that sounds like ritualistic chanting: FIRST WITCH. When shall we three meet again? / In thunder, lightning, or in rain? SECOND ...

its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...

to end he is nothing more than an arrogant man who wants to show others that he is the most intelligent and most powerful individu...

man who feels isolated and alone in that he is different than those around him. He truly has no real friends and thus his wife ser...

Macbeth was elected King in preference to Duncans own son, who was considered...

term in their prophetic greeting of Macbeth. The first witch hails Macbeth as "Thane of Glamis," the second as "Thane of Cawdor an...

will be the real winner in the scheme. Macbeth talks to himself about his desire to murder. He is tortured by it, thinks...

is perhaps the worst mistake he could have made. He was not a man of murder, or a man who lusted after power. But, his wife was bo...

harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined ...

of fairness, arguing that because Macbeth suffers the most he is paying for his sins, it does not make sense because Lady Macbeth ...

We can see that he is panicking because he has killed a man and there is blood on him that he cannot wash off. Even though his wif...

the person seeking power truly does see how things can be improved if people listen to them. For example, in the simple of situati...

with Macbeth as Malcolm states, "Come, go we to the king; our power is ready;/ Our lack is nothing but our leave; Macbeth/ Is ripe...

perplexed, sudden and desperate in act, from a distrust of his own resolution. His energy springs from the anxiety and agitation o...

thoughts terrify him. The fact that Macbeth is thought of as a loyal and noble person at the beginning of the play is made eviden...

cistern of my lust, and my desire / all continent impediments would oerbear...better Macbeth/ Than such an one to reign" (lines 62...

his trusted lieutenant are confronted by a trio of witches who predict: THIRD WITCH. All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be King hereaft...

with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...

the characters and how they all go about trying to define the night and day while engaged in various activities. In the...

say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate" (Shakespeare ...

They have made themselves, and that their fitness now / Does unmake you. I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the ...

soldier, but hes also immediately associated in our minds with the spilling of blood. But blood also means the blood connection b...