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Shakespeare in his play Macbeth tells us a message which is talking about don’t do the same thing as Macbeth to the audience because in this play Macbeth was hero at the beginning but after he abused his power in an evil way his mind started deteriorating.

Macbeth’s state of mind started to deteriorate after he was manipulated by the witches talking about the “truth”

Shakespeare uses metaphor in Macbeth to show Macbeth detonating state of mind at the end of the play when he hears of his wifes suicide Macbeths life becomes meaningless to him. When he says “Life’s but a walking shadow” he is saying that life is short and never know when it’s going to end. He believes it is at insubstantial as a shadow. Shakespeare uses this metaphor strengthen or renforce our sense of Macbeth’s despair.

Shakespeare is trying to communicate to us by using Macbeth in the play to talk about life.

In the play Shakespeare is trying to say to us using Macbeth that, life is just a walking shadow that waits for its hour of death and you are gone forever and not heard of ever again.

In this soliloquy it shows that Macbeth is saying that lady Macbeth should of died after awhile, not now and is saying that there was much more time. He says she could of died tomorrow but not tomorrow but tomorrow, which means he wanted her to live another day every time and plus, Lady Macbeth made Macbeth kill Duncan and now Lady Macbeth is dead he feels so stupid but hes okay with it. He shows this by saying the quote “It is a tale Told by an idiot.” which shows an idiot made him do his actions which is confusing because every action is done by our self’s and he feels like he was controlled. Macbeth does dearly love Lady Macbeth but he felt controlled.

Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No.

This shows that macbeth is a equivocator because this shows that he can’t forgive himself and no one will, even the ocean won’t forgive him. This quote is from act 2 scene 2. Blood means guilt in macbeth and if he says he cannot wash this blood out of his hands it means he cannot wash his guilt away from his head and he talks to himself outloud , which shows he is going insane slowly. This also shows that Neptune that is a god cannot forgive him Or it says With one of the greatest gods cannot get rid of his guilt.

Whence is that knocking?
How is ’t with me when every noise appals me?
What hands are here? Ha! They pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.

At this point he started thinking things the wrong way and started to go insane after killing duncan

Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more.
By Sinel’s death I know I am thane of Glamis.
But how of Cawdor? The thane of Cawdor lives,
A prosperous gentleman, and to be king
Stands not within the prospect of belief,
No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence
You owe this strange intelligence, or why
Upon this blasted heath you stop our way
With such prophetic greeting. Speak, I charge you.

The witches just told him that he shall be king and now he questions them and forces them to continue.

MACBETH
Your children shall be kings.
BANQUO
You shall be king.

Now this is questioning both of them, the witches just told them that banquo sons will be king and Macbeth will be king. That confuses them

(aside) If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me
Without my stir.

This makes him think about that he will become king. He speaks to His wife Lady Macbeth and corrupts him to kill Duncan who is king At this time.

(aside) The prince of Cumberland! That is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap,
For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires;
Let not light see my black and deep desires.
The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be
Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.

After knowing that Malcom is prince of Cumblerland Macbeth has the King’s position in his mind.

LENNOX
Here is a place reserved, sir.

MACBETH
Where?

LENNOX
Here, my good lord. What is ’t that moves your highness?

MACBETH
Which of you have done this?

MACBETH
(to GHOST) Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake
Thy gory locks at me.

ROSS
Gentlemen, rise. His highness is not well.

At this part Macbeth goes confused at the point that there is no seat because the ghost of Banquo on his seat in his view but not for the others and the others think he is unwell.

MACBETH
What man dare, I dare.
Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
The armed rhinoceros, or th’ Hyrcan tiger;
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
Shall never tremble. Or be alive again,
And dare me to the desert with thy sword.
If trembling I inhabit then, protest me
The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow!
Unreal mockery, hence!

Exit GHOST

Why so, being gone,
Why so, being gone,
I am a man again. Pray you sit still.

All a sudden he changes from talking to banquos ghost to talking to his guests and Its very weird because the audience is puzzled and laughing because it was very random and we cannot see the ghost so its pretty funny

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy responsible for the study of existence. It is the foundation of a worldview. It answers the question “What is?” It encompasses everything that exists, as well as the nature of existence itself. It says whether the world is real, or merely an illusion. It is a fundamental view of the world around us.

http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/Metaphysics_Main.html found

An word that uses Metaphysics is when he talks about a dagger Macbeth can see it We cant.

Paradox Definition, a situation or statement that seems impossible or is difficult to understand because it contains two opposite facts or characteristics

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/paradox found definition

From act 1 scene 1, Foul is Fair and Fair is Foul. It’s saying 2 things which you are confused with, saying foul means Fair but Fair is Foul?

Definition
Pathetic fallacy is a literary device that attributes human qualities and emotions to inanimate objects of nature. The word “pathetic” in the term is not used in the derogatory sense of being miserable; rather, here, it stands for “imparting emotions to something else”.

http://literarydevices.net/pathetic-fallacy/ definition found

At act 1 scene 1, “Hovery through the fog and filthy air.” There talking about how annoyed the air is because they All said it.

A dramatic device that allows the audience to be aware of things that some (or all) of the characters in a text.

For example, in act 1 scene 4 of Shakespeare Macbeth, Macbeth speaks in an aside (to the audience) telling us that he is going to have dispense with the king son Malcolm in order to become king hmiself

From Mr Waugh

Away, and mock the time with fairest show:
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.