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Actually understand Macbeth Act 3, Scene 4. Read every line of Shakespeare’s original text alongside a modern English translation.
- Act 4, Scene 3
What disease does he mean? MALCOLM ‘Tis called the evil. A...
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Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth: "Blood will have blood"...
- Act 4, Scene 3
The Ghost disappears and Macbeth joins her in this lie. But when the Ghost reappears, Macbeth begins shouting at it (“Avaunt! and quit my sight!”), and the guests disperse.
Why is it that upon seeing anything the involves gore, e.g.: surgical cutting. excessive blood. blood and pain. causes nausea, vomiting or fainting? And why does watching it repeatedly take away that feeling (desensitization)?
First Murderer appears at the door. —Macbeth hears from First Murderer that Banquo is dead, but Fleance has escaped. Enter the Ghost of Banquo and sits in Macbeth's place. —The bloody Ghost of Banquo — which only Macbeth can see — appears among the guests. Exeunt all but Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
He is no longer overcome with fear at the sight of the ghost, but rather roused to wild anger. Lady Macbeth does not dare to address him, but devotes herself to the almost impossible task of inducing the peers to treat his words and actions as things of no importance.
LADY MACBETH. O proper stuff! This is the very painting of your fear. This is the air-drawn dagger which you said. Led you to Duncan. Oh, these flaws and starts, Impostors to true fear, would well become. A woman’s story at a winter’s fire, Authorized by her grandam.
Jul 31, 2015 · Left alone by Banquo, Macbeth sees a gory dagger leading him to Duncan’s room. Hearing the bell rung by Lady Macbeth to signal completion of her preparations for Duncan’s death, Macbeth exits to kill the king.
