Act Four Scene Of Macbeth

Before Macbeth meets with Macduff, he thinks of ways to handle Macduff so he would no longer be a problem. Macduff was considered to be a problem because he left the kingdom in order to assist an opposing force. Macbeth states “Then live, Macduff: what need I fear of thee? But yet I’ll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate.” (Act IV scn i, ln 82-84) He wants to make sure Macduff will not be a problem; he wants to keep Macduff out of his way. In this scene Macbeth is attempting to discover ways to inforce his superiority through the phrase “The castle of Macduff I will surprise; seize upon Fife; give to th’ edge o’ th’ sword his wife, his babies, and all unfortunate souls.” (Act IV scn i, ln 150-152) He hired men to kill Macduff’s family, so he will be depressed and will grieve; he wants to keep Macduff out of the way of him still being King. The main reason he did this, however, was to exert his leadership over Macduff and send a message. This paragraph explains how Macbeth was disloyal to Macduff and how he did anything to keep Macduff out of his way, but things did not turn out as he

Macduff is the thane of fife, the foil to Macbeth, and the greatest patriot of Scotland during the play. He first appears in act one scene six, the King Duncan and the nobleman come to Macbeths castle. Macduff’s fellow noblemen marvel about the greatness of Macbeth’s castle, though Macduff stays silent throughout the scene. This is generally how Macduff acts; only speaking when spoken to, and not making unnecessary conversation. In act two scene three Macduff and Lennox come to wake the king and he is the one to make the discovery that the king has been murdered. He exclaims to Macbeth and Banquo what has happened, saying that the King is the Lord’s appointed temple. This is common in the time period

Macduff's ambition in this play was to be loyal to his country by taking out Macbeth. Too much of his time is spent plotting against Macbeth, which throws off Macduff’s values. He abandons his family and left for England to find Malcolm so he could wage war against Macbeth. Later, Macbeth hears that the recent absence of Macduff at the banquet and at Duncan’s funeral was because he had fled to England, to find Malcolm. So Macbeth reacts to this by sending murderers to kill Macduff's family. Once Macduff finds out that his family is dead, he starts to exhibit some emotion. At this time he is about to wage war on Macbeth with Malcolm; Malcolm say's to Macduff "Dispute it like a man"(4.3.259). Macduff then replies,

Macbeth was conscious that his thoughts are used for “only [for] vaulting ambition” and yet he does nothing to correct the situation of his thoughts. Macbeth was not mentally deranged before the killing of Duncan and is able to differentiate good from evil, nevertheless he chose to commit regicide. Macbeth reveals that he knows what he is about to do is immoral, and that that “judgement here…. [will be] taught [to] return to plague the inventor”. This ambition eventually lead Macbeth to greed and paranoia; making him willing to do anything necessary in order to secure his position of power. It also becomes easier and easier for Macbeth to commit heinous crimes. Without thinking twice, he orders the murders of Macduff's family, including his children. Macbeth's selfishness and reckless ambition lead him to his own demise.

By the end of the play Macbeth had become to cocky about his skills and what the apparitions told him. When he meets Macduff at the end of the play, instead of running away like he should have he taunts Macduff about the fact that he can not kill him. That is until Macduff says this:

This quote shows the urgency of Macduff to go see the King right away even though he does not know what has been done Duncan. Shakespeare does this right after the murder to show the presence of Macbeths evil is what brought Macduff to existence in the first place and to cement a future hero in Macduff.

She thinks that he had left them because he was frightened and that he doesn’t care about his family. After Ross leaves, she says to her son that his father had died. He does not believe her, for if he was really dead, she would be weeping for him. If she wasn’t, he would know that he would quickly have a new father. It’s not that Macduff doesn’t care about his family, but he went off to England to recruit help from Malcolm to help save the country from the tyrant Macbeth. He knows that he shouldn’t have left his family so unprotected, but he had to leave as soon as possible so to end the suffering of the people under Macbeth’s rule. One significant example, (that isn’t in this scene) where Macduff shows his love and sympathy for his family, is when he starts to weep after Ross tells him the bad news about their murder. Therefore, he did actually really care about his family, but for that moment, he cared more about his

(Shakespeare 3.2) without the knowledge that Macduff was ripped from his mother prematurely, he goes after him, but kills his family after they find that he is not in Scotland, assuming he ran away, they forgot about him. However, he was in England preparing to return with an army that has only one goal, and that is to kill Macbeth. Consequently, when the army reaches Scotland, Macduff directly heads to Macbeth, the killing of his family had fuelled a fire in him. With his mind set on getting revenge, Macduff kills Macbeth and cuts off his head. Macbeth’s greed for power was the end of him, it turned him into a tyrannous ruler of the country and played a major reason behind his

Lady Macduff notes that “Our fears do make us traitors (IV, ii, 4)” there are no more trust worthy people, loyal subjects of the king, instead they are now terrified of him and fear his unpredictable and insane behaviour.

When stress is happening people tend to change due to what’s going on around them. Shakespeare’s play Macbeth shows a lot of character changes throughout the play. Macbeths wife, Lady Macbeth ends the play being more sympathetic where as in the beginning of the play you see her being cruel for helping the planning of killing King Duncan to help make Macbeth king. Macbeth ends up killing King Duncan and ends up being crowned king. Macbeth worries that Banquo, the Thane of Cawdor, will suspect that Macbeth killed Duncan because Banquo was with Macbeth when Macbeth received the prophecy from the three witches explaining that Macbeth will be king.

Act Four, Scene Two of Macbeth by William Shakespeare is a very important scene. During this scene, the audience realizes that Macbeth loses all sense of humanity. Here, the murders (that Macbeth himself orders) kill innocent an innocent family. The murders that Macbeth ordered brutally slaughter a young boy on stage. Moreover, this scene is foreshadows Macbeth’s future outcomings.

In A Performance of Macbeth, a 1979 cinematic depiction of Shakespeare’s book Macbeth, written by Trevor Nunn, and directed by Philip Casson, the portrayal of Lady Macbeth’s vulnerability and naivete in Act 5 Scene 1 was evocative and exquisite. In Shakespeare’s book, Lady Macbeth was shown as a frightened woman with a guilty conscience; the scene would be full of tension, and that was executed perfectly in the movie. Judi Dench,the actor who played Lady Macbeth, did an exceptional job at portraying the right mood for this scene. In this particular scene, Julie Dench was able to convey all the right emotions that made this movie spectacular.

Often times in plays there will be at least one scene in the play that is monumental. Usually there is something that happens or is explained in that particular scene that makes it so important. William Shakespeare is a genius at doing this sort of thing. he always has a scene in his plays that are huge to the play and play a very important role in the play. When he does it though, it never seems as if it is a crazy important scene, when it actually is. You will often have to really pay attention to what you are reading and it will be extremely evident what he is actually saying and pointing out. In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare he has a scene where he does this. There are many important scenes in the play, but there is one in particular that really stands out and provides with basically an overview of the play. In Macbeth Act 4, Scene 2, it provides an overview of all of the themes, and really shows the turning point of many of the characters in the play.

My chosen lines are Act 4 Scene 2 Lines 35-70 where there is dialogue between Young Macduff and Lady Macduff, and I am analyzing Young Macduff’s lines. Ross, their cousin, has just come to tell them that Macduff has gone to England. Lady Macduff is angered because Macduff has left his family unprotected. This conversation between mother and child is playful yet somehow serious. Young Macduff knows that his father is not dead and is just teasing and having a playfully serious conversation about how his father has gone to England.

More people start to become treats along with becoming suspicious to Macbeth. In order to make sure that he stays in power without letting anyone know about his previous scandals Macbeth hires people to do it for him. Macduff finds out that his family was murdered and wants to kill Macbeth before he destroys the kingdom. At the end of the story. Macduff battles Macbeth saying “I have no words,My voice is in my sword. Thou bloodier villain,Than terms can give thee out! (Act 5 Scene 8) meaning that Macduff is full of rage and wants Macbeth dead. As the battle continues, Macbeth is defeated knowing that he couldn't be killed from anyone born from a