what does lady macbeth mean when she says
"O, proper stuff!This is the very painting of your fear. This is the air-drawn dagger which you said led you to Duncan."
also when banquo says:
"Thou hast it now-- King, Cawdor, Glamis, all as the weird women promised, and i fear thou played'st most foully for 't"
and when the witches all say:
"fair is foul foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air."
2007-10-04 14:38:11 · 6 answers · asked by Bdog 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
She means: This is fitting. It is a portrait of your fear, it is the imaginary dagger you told me about.
Banquo means: Everything the witches forcast for you, Macbeth, has come true, and I think you did many evil things to get them.
Th Witches mean: Everything is topsy turvy, and is suspended in the fog (which is filthy air--or if they are in a swamp could mean the stench)
2007-10-04 14:45:59 · answer #1 · answered by Theatre Doc 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd need to reread it for that Lady Macbeth.
But what banquo is sayin is that Macbeth now has what the weird sisters had promised him, but he thinks there was foul play involved. Which we know, is true.
And that sounds like something the witches are saying when they gather together or are casting a spell, which one?
A little more context and I will probably have better answers for you. ^_^
2007-10-04 15:12:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
banquo is saying that everything which the witches predicted has come true, and that he suspects that this has happened because Macbeth has made it happen. Basically, he is catching on to what Macbeth has done/is doing
the witches are basically just saying that things are reversed, and not what they seem.
I'm not too sure about the LMacbeth one, but I think it just means that this is your fear... this is the imaginative (& symbolic!) dagger you told me you say leading you to duncan.
2007-10-04 15:39:21 · answer #3 · answered by Just a girl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lady Macbeth is referring to the dagger in context of seeing Banquo's ghost and is kind of making fun of macbeth
2014-11-03 03:33:07 · answer #4 · answered by Darren 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Airdrawndagger
2016-11-16 06:26:00 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
macbeth is one of the greatest tragedies by shakespeare, when he admits murder leagued with Witch-craft and inspiring by his wife's chastisment he feels guilty. witches had told him that he would be the king of Scottland so he admitted that murder of the KING DUNCAN who was like his father .his destiny his nemesis can be expressed by this statement
2016-05-21 02:44:15 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋