This is interesting as it is almost saying he is ignoring fortune, which could be seen as wealth, which he ignored as he stayed loyal to Duncan rather than fighting for the rebels who would have paid him, but it also means fate or destiny, which is something he didn’t ignore in the rest of the play. He also claims he was “disdaining fortune” during the battle. In A1 S2, the captain calls Macbeth “brave Macbeth,” then claims that the adjective should be used as his “name.” He almost seems to be saying that Macbeth should have brave as his title, as though he is so brave it is almost a first name. Why did Shakespeare leave one of literature's biggest turnarounds to happen off-stage? Who knows.ĭescribing Macbeth : brave Macbeth / disdaining fortune / smoked with bloody execution She goes from ordering the other Scottish nobility to go home at the end of Act 3 to so anxious she's ready for suicide in Act 5 with NO character arc at all. either way, and her death wasn't very well covered in the play. The truth is that Shakespeare leaves the real cause of Lady Macbeth's death a little bit open - she could have killed herself, either as a result of finally feeling guilt or simply because she knew that Macbeth would lose and she wasn't prepared to be captured by the English or she could have been killed by Seyton and his minions. The reference to the "violent hands" makes it pretty clear that she didn't throw herself off any castle battlements, however, and it's definitely the case that he wouldn't be launching an enquiry into how she really died. The proof of Lady Macbeth's suicide is saved until the final speech in the play where Malcolm mentions it in passing. (Macbeth's) fiend-like queen, / Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands / Took off her life It is a talk told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.MALCOLM. Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.I have supp’d full with horrors direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts cannot once start me.Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love: now does he feel his title hand loose about him, like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief.Out, damned spot! out, I say! – Lady Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 1).Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it break.Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, yet grace must still look so.When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.Double, double toil and trouble Fire burn and cauldron bubble.I am in blood steepp’d in so far, that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er.To show an unfelt sorrow is an office which the false man does easy.The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees is left this vault to brag of.Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? – Macbeth (Act 2, Scene 1) Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.Screw your courage to the sticking-place. Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums,Īnd dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn I would, while it was smiling in my face, How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me:
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