Macbeth

*  Macbeth: 

     

Q:-1 Who is responsible for Macbeth downfall? 

             Macbeth’s Downfall Irrational and hasty decisions can greatly affect the outcome of a person's life, determining whether the outcome will be victorious or catastrophic. It is easy for someone to be manipulated and tricked into believing something that may seem real when in reality it is not.

                       

              In William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Macbeth is influenced by the three witches, pressure of Lady Macbeth and his own fate ultimately led to his tragic downfall. 

          The Three Witches played a huge part in Macbeth's downfall, as they were the first characters to tempt and deceit Macbeth into committing evil deeds. They were the ones who first triggered Macbeth's first thoughts of killing Duncan.… 

         So , three witches are responsible for the downfall of the play.

Q:-2 According to your reading, who is more powerful, Lady Macbeth is powerful or Macbeth is power? Between them who is controlling to another can you illustrate that? 

      

            Macbeth by William Shakespeare Lady Macbeth influences Macbeth in the beginning. She then covers for Macbeth during act three to cover his cowardice. Finally, Lady Macbeth dies after the guilt she acquired throughout the play for Macbeth. 

            Although men are considered more powerful than women, Lady Macbeth is the most powerful character in Macbeth because she is unmerciful, deceitful, and vigorous First and foremost Lady Macbeth is a dominant character because she is bloodthirsty. 

                   In act one, the messenger has assured Lady Macbeth the king is coming to the castle that night. As a response to this news Lady Macbeth states, “Fill me from the crown to the top full of direst cruelty make my blood .

          Lady Macbeth is asking for the witches to give her the strength and courage of a man and to allow her femininity to be gone so that she can help Macbeth complete the horrific crime. The view that men are more powerful than women is demonstrated because she is asking for the witches to make her less feminine, so she can accomplish the task this relates to common day now because many women wish to be considered equal to men and to be treated as an equal to men just as Lady Macbeth's character is trying to do. 

*Lady Macbeth is more powerful character of the play :

 

         On the other hand lady Macbeth is definitely the most significant character because she is vigorous in act two Macbeth has just completed the horrific crime of murdering King Duncan and he brings the daggers back to Lady Macbeth who takes them from Macbeth and returns them Lady Macbeth states, “infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures tis the eye of childhood that fears a pain tol devil if he do bleed i'll gild the faces of the grooms withal for it must seem their guilt “ . Lady Macbeth is criticizing Macbeth for having childish fears that are unnecessary because the dead are harmless to them. She is also demonstrating her power over Macbeth by taking the daggers away from Macbeth and taking them back herself and completing the crime.

                  Lady Macbeth demonstrates tremendous power when  questioning Macbeth’s fears because assuming that he is childish means she feels no fear and she feels superior to him because she has ensured that the plan of the crime would work. 

Q:-3 How you look or interpreted the the supernatural power in Macbeth context. 

 * Super natural Power in Macbeth :

           The Play “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare is shaped by supernatural forces with the use of the weird witches, the apparition of the ghost, and the floating dagger. These forces lead Macbeth to act in the way he did and add suspense to the play. 

                 The play opens with the three witches, and later on Macbeth and Banquo encounter them. They prophesized that Macbeth will be promoted to Thane of Cawdor, and then become King of Scotland. 

           In addition to that, Banquo was told that his sons shall be kings, but never himself. Macbeth was skeptical about the prophesies, but until some of King Duncan’s men came to inform Macbeth that that he was to be named Thane of Cawdor due to the betrayal of the previous and condemned to death.

              Then Lady Macbeth comes up with the idea to murder King Duncan and take their place of kingship as prophesized. She persuades Macbeth to kill him that very night and he is led by a floating dagger to do the evil deed. Fearful of the witches’ prediction that Banquo’s sons will seize the throne, Macbeth hired murders to kill Banquo and his son Fleance and the boy escapes. Later that night Banquo’s ghost appears at Macbeth’s dinner. In the second encounter with the witches they warn Macbeth of Macduff, and tell him no women born will harm him, and about moving trees.  These events are lead by the supernatural, and lead to the fall of Macbeth.

               The Three witches are the most important supernatural phenomenon. Early in the play there “are but an echo of the rune of the witches”  “Fair is foul, and foul is fair”   Early in the play it is a dominant line that leads to a motive of doom and the beginning of shaping the actions of the play. In “Macbeth”, the weird sisters’ first prophecy is “All hail, Ma...

Q:- 4 Explain the quotation.

 " Fair is foul, and foul is fair." 

              The line "fair is foul and foul is fair" comes from William Shakespeare's Macbeth. In Macbeth, Macbeth and his wife plot to kill the king.                       

                Shakespeare uses three witches in the play as a type of chorus to foretell Macbeth's demise. They are also the voices in the play who remind the viewer that looks can be deceiving, specifically through their assertion that "fair is foul and foul is fair."

         The play opens with the three witches talking in a deserted place. They talk of meeting again when they greet Macbeth, and the scene ends with these lines:

Fair is foul and foul is fair,

Hover through the fog and filthy air.

                The line "fair is foul and foul is fair" means that all is not what it seems. What seems good and trustworthy is actually not; what might seem repugnant is actually good. 

           The witches are foretelling the treachery of Macbeth, who will commit treason by killing the king.

               The idea that looks and surface actions can be deceiving is repeated throughout the play (a motif). The witches themselves are ugly, but they offer what Macbeth would think are beautiful words about his rise to power. 

                  Macbeth seems heroic and loyal to the king, but he is actually a traitor. The witches seem to prophesy later in the play that Macbeth cannot be killed by man-by "one of woman born." But, he is later killed by someone who was born through a Caesarean section.

             When the line "fair is foul and foul is fair" is used today, it is often used in reference to someone who appears good, trustworthy, and genuine; but who is not-looks can be deceiving.

                 This idea is often repeated in reference to public figures, such as politicians, who have a public persona that does not match who they really are.

Q:-5 Can we say that Lady Macbeth is more greedy then any other character in this drama. 

- Greedy character of the drama: 

    

       Lady Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most famous and frightening female characters. When we first see her, she is already plotting Duncan’s murder, and she is stronger, more ruthless, and more ambitious than her husband. She seems fully aware of this and knows that she will have to push Macbeth into committing murder. At one point, she wishes that she were not a woman so that she could do it herself.

This theme of the relationship between gender and power is key to Lady Macbeth’s character: her husband implies that she is a masculine soul inhabiting a female body, which seems to link masculinity to ambition and violence. Shakespeare, however, seems to use her, and the witches, to undercut Macbeth’s idea that “undaunted mettle should compose / Nothing but males” . These crafty women use female methods of achieving power—that is, manipulation—to further their supposedly male ambitions. Women, the play implies, can be as ambitious and cruel as men, yet social constraints deny them the means to pursue these ambitions on their own. 

                Lady Macbeth manipulates her husband with remarkable effectiveness, overriding all his objections; when he hesitates to murder, she repeatedly questions his manhood until he feels that he must commit murder to prove himself. Lady Macbeth’s remarkable strength of will persists through the murder of the king—it is she who steadies her husband’s nerves immediately after the crime has been perpetrated.

Afterward, however, Lady Macbeth begins a slow slide into madness—just as ambition affects her more strongly than Macbeth before the crime, so does guilt plague her more strongly afterward. By the close of the play, she has been reduced to sleepwalking through the castle, desperately trying to wash away an invisible bloodstain.

               Once the sense of guilt comes home to roost, Lady Macbeth’s sensitivity becomes a weakness, and she is unable to cope. Significantly, she (apparently) kills herself, signaling her total inability to deal with the legacy of their crimes. 

       So above the information we can say that lady Macbeth is very greedy character in the drama.

Q:-6 Who is more responsible for King Duncan's death? Supernatural elements? Greed of Lady Macbeth? Power desperate Macbeth? According to your reading who is responsible for this? 

 Macbeth is More Responsible In Shakespeare’s play “Macbeth” Macbeth is seen to be as the one responsible for King Duncan’s murder, as Macbeth’s hands were the ones that actually killed King Duncan. 

          However, while Macbeth may be thought of as ultimately responsible for his actions, but there are other influences that actually show on a closer inspection of the text, the three main influences to his decision are Lady Macbeth, himself, and the witches.

         This is (in my opinion) convincing evidence that Macbeth is completely responsible for the murder of King Duncan. 

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