the end

In act five scene 5, Macbeth does, what I like to call a dark Vader move, and moves back to good. This is seen at the beginning of act 5 when Macbeth says, “I have almost forgot the taste of fears: the time has been my senses would have cooled to hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir”(224). What this quote is showing is that Macbeth for the first time since before he killed Duncan has fear. This is also the first time that Macbeth’s fears have not led him to kill someone. This makes him good because for the fist time since act one he is almost human, he is thinking rationally for the most part and is now afraid that something might happen. I do think that is interesting that this comes at the cry death from lady Macbeth. In some ways it is as if lade Macbeth, who was the one that made Macbeth do the first killing, was the part of Macbeth that was making him do the other killings and thing.

night is long

“The night is long and never finds the day” Malcolm page 198 this come at the end of act four after Macduff has found out that Macbeth a killed his family and his workers. This also comes after Macbeth has meet with the witches for a second time. For Macbeth the night will never find the day for Macduff the night is long and it will be longer but day will come when he kills Macbeth in the last act. This is true for Malcolm too. After the death of his father the king Malcolm had to flee from Scotland. Since Duncan’s death Malcolm has had to hide and not live in the day but the day is coming and will return in time. This idea of night never finding the day is true for every one in this book because things happen that bring night and the only way out is death or the death of Macbeth.

time

In act 4 scene 1 we find out that Macduff has fled to England. This makes Macbeth mad so he decides to go and kill macduff’s family that he left behind. At the end of the scene Macbeth says a line that foreshadows the rest of the book. Macbeth says “time thou anticipat’st my dread exploits: the flighty purpose never is o’ertook unless the deed go with it”(170). This is saying that time is the one that will stop him for being able to do things. This is true Macbeth has been doing all these things so that he can be king and stay king but time is running out for him and he must do these things before his time runs out. What Macbeth dose not know is that what the witches have shown him will come true and that his time is going to come to a end and fate has been set and he can not do any thing about what is going to happen.

blood will have blood

In act three scene four Macbeth sees Bonquo’s ghost. Macbeth goes crazy here it is in front of people. Lady Macbeth gets the people to go. After they go Macbeth talk about ghosts. Macbeth says “It will have blood they say blood will have blood:”(142) it then goes on to say thing about ghost. But that first part of the line is the part that I would like to focus on. I think that this relates the Macbeth in that he has killed Duncan and then he killed the guards and now he has killed Bonquo. It will have blood was the killing of Duncan and the blood will have blood this that he needs to kill the guards to keep them from saying any thing and then he kills Bonquo to stop his kids from becoming kings. Macbeth is now in a cycle that he has to keep killing people to get them off of thinking that it was him or from getting in the way of what he wants to do.

night's black agents

In the first part of act three there is a good reference to night that Macbeth says right before they kill Banquo. The line comes at the end of scene two Macbeth says “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”(126). This is saying the crows are heeding to the forest and the sun is going down and that the night is going to bring things. This come on the eve of killing Banquo so it must be noted that Macbeth can be seen as the night and the murderers are his black agents that are doing his work this also can be seen as a warning of what is about to happen the Macbeth at diner that night when he sees Banguo’s ghost in this case it is Banquo that is night’s black agents that is rousing it pray which in this case is Macbeth.

sleep no more

In act two there are many references to sleep. The one that stands to me the most important is in scene two after Macbeth has killed Duncan. Macbeth said “Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!’ the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course chief nourisher in life’s feast”(80). This quote is vary important because it talks about what sleep does to help us and what it will do if we do not have it. It the quote it says that sleep will undo the knots of our worries. This is important because as the play goes on Macbeth is going to go crazy and worry about things and will kill Banquo because of it. It also says that sleep is a soothing rest from work, Macbeth will no longer be able to relax because he will be haunted by what he has done. It also says that sleep is healing for the sick minds, this means that with out sleep Macbeth will not be able to be in his right mind. Macbeth has killed sleep so he will no longer get what sleep brings to us. This is the beginning to Macbeth going insane.

regret

In act one scene seven Lady Macbeth has some lines that say a lot about how much she wants to become queen. If it were not for Lady Macbeth being the “spur” to make Macbeth kill Duncan Macbeth might not kill Duncan. To get Macbeth to kill Duncan Lady Macbeth say that she would rip her own baby from her and smash it’s head in if she sad she would do it to Macbeth. This is to make Macbeth look week and submit to her and kill Duncan and make her queen. In the last line of Act 1 Macbeth shows regret for what he is going to do it is from this point on that the play becomes a lot about the regret and eventual death of Macbeth because of this act that he is about to commit.

fair is foul

In the first three Act of Macbeth there is a lot of talk about of things that have happened to the Thane of Cawdor and how Macbeth has gain from this and how this will not happen again. There is a lot of foreshadowing in to the rest of the play and of what is to come it also shows how the king is not good a seeing in to people and how they will act. For Macbeth the idea of being king is the best thing that could have happened but it is also the worse. It is the best and worse thing that Macbeth could do, that is why fair is foul and foul is fair. There is also a scene that Macbeth is wanting this to happen but at the same time does not want to have to do it because he will be betraying the king that has given him so much and he does not want to do that.