The Birnam Wood

The way one shows emotions on the outside is very different from what they hide on the inside. Individuals might change to fit in, but others will pretend to be something they are not. While attempting to act as someone else reality will eventually show up either way one considers to go. Macbeth is visited by three witches that project images and as time goes on the images become a reality. An armored head appears first of the three images. The head warns Macbeth about MacDuff the Thane of Fife

On a heath in Scotland, Macbeth and Banquo receive an unsettling prophecy from a group of three witches. They hail Macbeth as the Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and the King of Scotland hereafter. Banquo is told that he will be the father of kings. The witches vanish. Messengers arrive with news that Duncan, the current king of Scotland, has named Macbeth the Thane of Cawdor after the treasonous Thane’s execution. Macbeth sends a letter to his wife, Lady Macbeth, telling of the unusual prophecy

The way individuals behave on the outside may differ from what they truly feel on the inside. Some feel the need to change to fit in while others claim to be something they are not. Regardless of which way one considers it, while attempting to act like someone they really cannot be, reality will eventually show up at last. Appearance versus reality was precisely what happened in the Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth speaks with the three witches that project images and as time passes the realities soon

never be vanquished because it is not possible for the Birnam Wood to move to Dunsinane Hill. It is impractical for the trees to be relocated to another place: “That will never be, Who can impress the forest, bid the tree, unfix his earth bound root? Sweet bodements, good! (Shakespeare 4.1.104-106). With this said Macbeth thinks that he can not be defeated and is sure that he will win the battle. But Malcolm’s army use the tree branches of Birnam Wood  to camouflage themselves all the way to Dunsinane

Lady Macduff’s expresses her feelings towards Ross, who tries to protect Macduff. Ross advises for Lady Macduff to have patience but she angrily reveals that he should have never left them behind even if you are not a traitor. “Wisdom? To leave his wife,to leave his babes,/His mansion and his titles in a place/From whence himself does fly? He loves us not;/He wants the natural touch” (4.2.8-11). Lady Macduff insists that Macduff should protect his family before he fled, therefore showing that he

/ To kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet, / And to be baited with the rabble’s curse. / Though Birnam Wood be come to Dunsinane, / And thou opposed, being of no woman born, / Yet I will try the last. Before my body / I throw my warlike shield” (Shakespeare 5.8.27-33). At this point in the play, Macbeth has accepted his fate and is ready to fight til the end. He says, “Though Birnam Wood be come to Dunsinane, and thou opposed, being of no woman born, yet I will try the last.” In other words

the deceased King Macbeth was greatly condemned for his paranoia and tyranny. As Malcolm III and his army advanced towards the king’s castle, the soldiers were instructed to cut down tree limbs from Birnam Wood in order to disguise their numbers. The army, shielded with boughs cut from Birnam Wood, successfully

The play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare in the beginning of the 17th century, deals with a man’s turn from the king’s most glorious, brave and courageous general into a traitor and murderer influenced by evil forces. In the following I am going to describe the play briefly and explain the theme of it. Furthermore I will discuss Macbeth’s character and his internal conflict. While the general Macbeth and his friend Banquo are returning from a victorious battle, King

murder but is mentally capable of persuading someone into committing the crime for her. Macbeth is gullible at first judgment, but soon became a man on a murderous rampage to keep his title as king of Scotland. Starting with murdering King Duncan to Birnam Wood advancing to Dunsinane, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth initiate Macbeth’s downfall. Starting with the

this quote, Macbeth realizes that there is no point in either running away or staying in Dunsinane because he will end up dying either way. He accepts defeat when he says, “At least we’ll die with harness on our back” (5.5.51). Later on, when the Birnam Wood finally reaches Macbeth’s castle, he says that, “They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly, But bear-like I must fight the course” (5.7.1-2). Macbeth is pressured even further and feels that the English Army has trapped him. He realizes that he