Five questions about Macbeth.
1. Valiant soldier or violent schemer at the beginning?
He was a valiant soldier at the beginning because he saved Scotland from the bad things like the war against the King of Norway.2.Why is he obsessed with killing Banquo ( oh yeah Fleance to)
He is obsessed with murdering Banquo and Fleance because he knows that Banquo is starting to be very suspicious about what has happened so far in the play. He wanted to kill Fleance so then Banquo's children won't become king and their wouldn't be any future kings in banquo's family.
3. He visits the witches a second time. why? does he react?
He visits them a second time because he wants to find out more prophecies about the future. His reaction would be him being happy about none of women born would harm him until the part about Burnham Wood coming up against Dunsinane Castle and he wanted more information about the of th visions he saw.
4.Explain his decision to murder Lady Macduff & children (increasingly erratic & illogical behaviour)
The witches have told Macbeth to “beware Macduff,” so he thinks Macduff poses a threat to his throne. Also, Macduff has gone to England to help Malcolm (Duncan’s son) rally an army to return to Scotland and defeat Macbeth. In an attempt to get rid of this threat, Macbeth hires murderers to kill Macduff’s family, thinking that this will cause Macduff to submit out of fear and grief.
5.Is he nothing more than a “dead butcher” or do we the audience feel differently about him at the end?
The people in the audience has different opinions about Macbeth my one would be that he is nothing but a dead butcher who killed innocent people for what he wanted for himself and how he killed his own wife for a very harsh reason but in the end what's done is done.
Key adjectives:
Initially:
Courageous, Valiant:
But all’s too weak, For brave Macbeth—well he deserves that name—Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valor’s minion carved out his passage Till he faced the slave; Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Till he unseamed him from the nave to th' chops, And fixed his head upon our battlements
Appears to be loyal, patriotic, noble:
Loyal: The service and the loyalty I owe in doing it pays itself.
Patriotic: O nation miserable with an untitled tyrant, bloody-sceptered.
Noble: If I say sooth, I must report they were As cannons overcharged with double cracks, So they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe. Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds, Or memorize another Golgotha.
Key adjectives:
Develops into a character that is:
Ambitious:
"Your hand, your tongue be like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't".
