Day: 2 November 2016

Macbeth Mental Status.

November 2, 2016 / / 1 Comment

Macbeth is feeling to unsafe and is starting to see stuff where ever he is. Macbeth even start seeing ghosts next to people, and by seeing them, he nearly says all the evil things that he has done. Characters think he is getting crazy. Macbeth not just thinks that, he thinks he has scorpions in his head.

MACBETH

Oh, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!
Thou know’st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives.
Macbeth is also trying to persuade himself that killing Banquo is the right thing and that can be seen in this dialogue. Macbeth is trying to find excuses to not kill Banquo himself. This is really strange, because you will not expect that from a soldier who slaughtered thousands of people because he regarded them as enemies to him, so why not do that to Banquo. I personally think he is being weak, lost his confidence, and insecurity.
MACBETH

So is he mine; and in such bloody distance
That every minute of his being thrusts
Against my near’st of life. And though I could
With barefaced power sweep him from my sight
And bid my will avouch it, yet I must not,
For certain friends that are both his and mine,
Whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall
Who I myself struck down. And thence it is,
That I to your assistance do make love,
Masking the business from the common eye
For sundry weighty reasons.
Do not forget that Banquo is Macbeth’s friend, and killing your friend is not easy at all. And that is what is happening to him. He refuses to tell to his wife that he is about to kill his best friend and his son Fleance, to protect her from the pain, or even because he does not trust her anymore.
LADY MACBETH

     What’s to be done?
MACBETH

Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,
Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night,
Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day
And with thy bloody and invisible hand
Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond
Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow
Makes wing to th’ rooky wood.
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;
Whiles night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.
Thou marvel’st at my words: but hold thee still.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
So, prithee, go with me.
It does not even stop there, Macbeth starts seeing Banquo’s ghost after he orded the death of Banquo, which frustrates him, nearly making him tell the evil secrets about Banquo’s death and even possibly Duncan’s death as well.
MACBETH

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

Act 3 Scene 4 Summary

November 2, 2016 / / 0 Comments

The murderers go to Macbeth’s castle and inform him that they killed Banquo, however they did not kill Fleance. Macbeth then says that Fleance is fearless to him but there will be a time where he will need to kill him.

MACBETH

Then comes my fit again. I had else been perfect,
Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,
As broad and general as the casing air.
But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.—But Banquo’s safe?
FIRST MURDERER

Ay, my good lord. Safe in a ditch he bides,
With twenty trenchèd gashes on his head,
The least a death to nature.
MACBETH

     Thanks for that.
There the grown serpent lies. The worm that’s fled
Hath nature that in time will venom breed;
No teeth for th’ present. Get thee gone. Tomorrow
We’ll hear ourselves again.

The Macbeth crowning party starts and Macbeth acted as if he is angry that Banquo did not come, pointing that he is being rude.

MACBETH

Here had we now our country’s honor roofed,
Were the graced person of our Banquo present,
Who may I rather challenge for unkindness
Than pity for mischance.
Macbeth than sees a ghost of Banquo and gets frustrated. Lady Macbeth then tells everyone to calm down and that Macbeth has been talking to ghosts since his youth.
LADY MACBETH

Sit, worthy friends. My lord is often thus
And hath been from his youth. Pray you, keep seat.
The fit is momentary; upon a thought
He will again be well. If much you note him,
You shall offend him and extend his passion.
Feed and regard him not. (aside to MACBETH) Are you a man?
And after the ghost left. Macbeth toasted Banquo and then the ghost came back. And Macbeth gets frustrated again. When Macbeth told him to leave and he left, Macbeth switched back to normal