Macbeth play??

Question

i have a test on that play but i don't really understand it so can some one sum it up in english for me plz

Answer 1

The other person is thinking of Hamlet

Mac Beth is where we have three witches who fortell that a guy will get to be king -- But the catch is - He has to murder to do it. Also They foretell that he will lose when the trees start walking. He thinks that means he won't lose. --Actually Soldiers will use branches as camo and will make it appear as though the trees are walking closer to get him.

A lot of what this play is about is a guilty conscious. "Out damn spot!" -- It is as though the blood shed will be never wash off their guilty conscious.

Lady MacBeth is a key figure in her husbands downfall because she is soooo ambitious. She wants power and money and a cushy lifestyle and so she says -- "Go ahead and and murder him. So what if he was your closest buddy? You get to be King!" And of course MacBeth Listens to her.

It also means to make you question the role of fate and whether Macbeth would have fulfilled the prophecy, if he had not heard it in the first place. (from the "Boil and bubble hags")

Answer 2

Oh Kutekymme you are a bad pony, and I will not bet on you.

For all of you with tests, essays and assignments: (After 35 years of professional acting/directing experience and more than 2 dozen productions of Shakespeare plays in varous capacities) I know that Shakespeare's language can be difficult, and it can make for a tough read, and I believe with all my heart and soul that everyone's first experience of Bill should be a good performance by people who know what the hell they're doing, and I know that drama teachers ask for the klunkiest themes and plot questions,

BUT

DO THE WORK!

The reason we study this man's writing is, in short, that he reaches the epitome in the English language of what it is to FEEL and be human. Moral ambiguity, conflicted emotions he runs the lot, and invented character drama.

So please stop asking us to do the work, and find on your own the benefit and reward that can be reaped from these plays.

OK, OK, so in desperation there is always Cliff Notes or Coles Notes. Spend a couple of bucks fer chrissakes!

Answer 3

You should be familiar with MacBeth's monologue toward the end.

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
--From Macbeth (V, v, 19)

Also Lady MacBeth's "unsex me" speech:

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,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry 'Hold, hold!'
--From Macbeth (I, v, 40-54)

Answer 4

You can visit www.absoluteshakespeare.com and it will give you a good summary of the play Macbeth or if you are more of a visual learner, then you could always check out the movie.

Answer 5

MacBeth's father, the king, is killed by his uncle. His father's ghost tells him to avenge his death. MacBeth spends most of the play trying to decide whether he is crazy or whether he should kill his uncle. Everyone dies. Thats about it.

Answer 6

Who's the bozo who answered this question with a lame summary of the plot of "Hamlet"...?

C'mon, people.