"Come, you spirits, That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full, of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood;
Stop up the access and passage to remorse, Come to my woman's breasts, and take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers. Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell." [I, 5 38-49]
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ACT 3, SCENE'S 1 THROUGH 6 ANALYSIS:
In Macbeth's address to the murderers we see a recurrence of the "Be A Man" theme. When Macbeth asks them if they have the courage to kill Banquo, and they answer "we are men, my liege" (III.i 102). This answer does not satisfy Macbeth, who berates them as less-than-acceptable examples of humanity.
Macbeth uses much the same tactic his wife used to push him to kill Duncan. Both Macbeth and his Lady have a clear idea of what a man should act like.
In act one, Lady Macbeth outlines the traits that she considers important for a man: he must dare to use whatever means necessary to achieve his aspirations. She claims that she herself is less "Full Of The Milk of Human Kindness" than Macbeth, more capable of casting away any shred of compassion, motherly tenderness and affection, loyalty, or guilt. But Lady Macbeth is not the only character that values ruthlessness and a lack of compassion as masculine. Even Kindly Duncan himself evaluates heroic action on a rather gory scale. When the captain describes Macbeth's victory in battle he says, that his sword "Smoked With Bloody Execution, [and] Carved Out His Passage [through enemy soldiers]." With this bloody sword Macbeth cut Macdonwald open from his navel to his chin, cut off his head, and fixed it on top of the castle walls. Duncan's response to this account is "O Valiant Cousin, Worthy Gentleman!", A "Real Man." then, in the world of this play, is one who is capable of copious bloodshed without remorse.
Macbeth, therefore, is caught between a rock and a hard place; on the one hand he has his wife urging him to be a better man, on the other, his men turn from him as his capacity for bloodshed grows.
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2006-08-15 16:59:02
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answered by Excel 5
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This occurs in Act I, scene vii. The scene begins with Macbeth's great soliloquy in which he virtually talks himself OUT of participating in Duncan's murder. Lady M. puts him back on track, and he says:
Bring forth men-children only!
For thy undaunted mettle should compose
Nothing but males.
2006-08-15 16:45:33
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answered by shkspr 6
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The first line that popped into my head was "Bring forth men children only." You can find the full quote at any Shakespeare search engine.
2006-08-15 15:21:33
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answered by nomadgirl1 3
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he full, search to the on line Macbeth is the link below.
And the link I provided is not working. try this one...
http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/macbeth/
2006-08-15 14:54:35
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answered by oklatom 7
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as quickly as returned some one else is think to do your thinking if no longer homework for you. there is this sort of ingredient as seek engines which could answer this for you in case you weren't to lazy to look it up.
2016-09-29 07:48:11
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answered by ? 4
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