Hamlet increasingly gets angrier and angrier with himself as he keeps talking, and his anger turns to Claudius. Hamlet is now angry and self-loathing. He calls himself a “scullion” which means the lowest of the servants. He tells his brain to start working and gets an idea: to watch Claudius’ reaction to the modified version of The Mousetrap to confirm or deny his guilt about the King’s murder, which is the fourth part of Hamlet’s soliloquy. In the soliloquy, Hamlet is at first upset with himself about finding ways to avoid avenging his Father’s murder, like his spirit in ghost form told him to.
This makes us readers to believe that Fleance will revenge the death of his father in the future. Moreover, Ross begins to become suspicious of Macbeth because he begins to lose his cool and ramble with unusual things. Again we see Shakespeare foreshadowing significant acts about to unravel. This leads us to think Ross will start to question the actions of Macbeth and begin second guess his commands. Drama
Shakespeare has linked scene i and scene ii by having the characters in both scenes discuss a battle and Macbeth. The witches’ discussion about “When the battle’s lost and won” only becomes clarified when the soldier comes to tell of Macbeth’s victory. This gives an effect of mystery and intrigue about Macbeth, for we have only heard about him thus
As the play goes on, Macbeth slowly looses his morality as he strives for more control whilst Lady Macbeth steps into a frantic stage of guilt. After killing the king, Macbeth starts to plot other evil undertakings as he becomes nervous that someone will take away his power. At one point he goes from wanting to needing the sovereignty, which makes him loose sight of his integrity. As Macbeth begins to immorally act in order to achieve what he hungers, the line between good and evil starts to fade. “I am in blood / Stepp’d in so far, that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o’er.” (3.4.136-138) In this quote, Macbeth is telling himself that because he has stepped into evil so deeply, it will be hard to go back to morallity because he will never be able to rid of this guilt brought onto him.
As the play moves on, the audience observe the hasty crumbling of his devotion to God and the King. Macbeths longing to becoming king leads him to misjudging the prophecies. He sees them as an excuse and a form of consent- making it seem to him an acceptable action to kill the king in order
Unseamed him makes it sound like he ripped him like you rip a seam on clothes. He is also referred to as ‘Bellona’s Bridegroom’; so the husband of the goddess of war, so he is obviously a very good soldier. In Scene 3, Macbeth is told that he will be King. He then has a Soliloquy and he says that he is thinking about murdering King Duncan, but it shakes him up so much that he hardly knows who he is anymore, and he can’t act on his idea because of his thoughts and speculations. So he is thinking about killing the king to become king but his mind is telling him that it’s a bad idea so he is confused about what to do.
He says “why do I yield to that suggestion, whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, and make my seated heart knock at my ribs.” He is revolted by his actions, and still can’t believe what he has done. Even the thought of King Duncan’s death, makes his hair stand on end and makes his heart pound. After Macbeth is crowned King, he is determined to keep the throne, and keep his reputation clean. He clearly regretted slaughtering King Duncan, displayed in the quote “to know my deed t’were best not know myself,” but once he got crowned King, he needed to make sure that no one
He has no idea she played a big role in Duncan's death) As the play unfolds, Macduff speaks with Ross about what's up, and there's no long "woe-be-unto man and Scotland" speeches. Instead of prattling on about his suspicions of the King, Macduff makes the quiet and powerful decision to just leave for England. This is not a cowardly act, but rather a brave one intended to aid Malcolm (who needs all the help he can get) in enlisting the English against Macbeth. It is clear from his talk with Malcolm that Macduff loves Scotland and is not
When Macbeth learns that the first prediction has come true and he is given the title of Thane, the prediction of the third witch looks possible. The thought of being king is a turning point as Macbeth’s loyalty to the king is abandoned and his ambition turns to obtaining the crown as he plots to kill the king. Macbeth decision to kill the king initially waivers back and forth but he finally decides to commit the
Another comparison that is made to Macbeth is with Duncan, the old king. Duncan was described as a great king, everyone loved him. Macbeth is pretty much the worst King. When Malcolm comes to Macduff, Malcolm tests Macduff by saying that when he is King “black Macbeth will seem as pure as snow” (143). Macduff then says that he isn’t fit to rule, this shows his integrity.