Macbeth, part 4

As I said, this is a very dark way not

only symbolically, but also literally, because the majority of the

play takes place in darkness or semi darkness.

However, we do see the sunshine, but only twice.

And this is also there is symbolical.

So for the first time we see the sun is

when Duncan sees the swallows flying around the castle in

which he's going to die.

And in the end of the play, when the avenging

army is getting ready to, as they say, to rid

the Earth of its shame.

So the sun represents hope that Macbeth is going to

be, uh, guilt.

So Macbeths Imagination is very powerful and intense.

Is this that he has the imagination of a coat?

We can literally even see his conscience in the scene

with a dagger that I just spread.

And in the scene when he sees Banquo's ghost, which

is basically a metaphorical fantasy since the ghost, it's full

literally playing with his mind.

But what about the witches?

This is the question are which is merely symbolic representations

of Moretz, thoughts and desire.

We can actually discuss this.

The witches do not solicit.

They simply predict the future.

So nobody is responsible for his actions, not the witches,

but says, well, that is weak.

At the beginning of the play, he wouldn't have done

anything if there hadn't been for Lady.

Move back.

A. C.

Bradley sums it up like this.

There is not a syllable invest, implying that they're anything

but women.

But they have received certain supernatural powers from evil spirits.

Macbeth is perfectly pre in regard to them.

So he's more free than Hamlet, for example, who was

crippled by melancholy wonder Ghost appeared to him.

Of course, there is another way of new according to

which the witches and the prophecies are merely symbolical representations.

All my best thoughts and desires that the witches do

not even exist, not as which is not as women.

But this actually is inadequate because it cannot be appointed

to the facts from the plate.

We do see that the witches appear actually in the

place, so think about that and what you think about

the wishes themselves.

Um, Abed, at some point, says to be a gust

is nothing but to be safely thus, here occurs course

to being king to be thus Teoh, it's not a

total s so important as to keep the crowd upon

my head.

They placed the fruitless crown.

So the witches told him he would have no Children

and put to bear and step during like right thence

to be wrenched with a non lineal canned.

No son of mine succeeding you can see.

So not this one is important for Banquo's issue.

Have I filed?

My mind?

Issue here means Children, and Macbeth is devastated to realize

that he filed his mind.

Which means got a 30 uh, for Banquo's Children, a

not for his own.

So he hires murderers to kill Banquo, and he saw

Leone's. But the boy, uh, escapes.

And it is that night at the beast that Banquo's

ghost visits from back.

But interestingly on Lima beckon.

See him and he gets frantic.

So letting Beth tries to calm down the situation.

But the Scottish nobility is pulled by the way he

acts in this scene.

Um, bets as to any move, you make me sick.

Strange even to the disposition that I owe.

When now I think you can behold such sites and

keyed the natural movie of your chicks when mine is

launched with fear.

So this is at the beginning, ah, way when he

was not able to understand the cruelty lady movement.

But by this thing, by the appearance with bank was

goes on, the situation has drastically changed.

Leading been plays the role of a perfect wife.

She's encouraging and cheering her husband, but as he plunges

deeper and deeper into blood, she cannot keep up with

him. The movements are frequently called the most happily married

couple in Shakespeare, but they will eventually draw part because

the Beth will become a ruthless killer, whereas Lady Macbeth

is going to be tortured by her own conscious.

You should try and compare them when you are preparing

for your exams to Romeo and Juliet to Antony Cleopatra,

two of talented Simona Patrol is in Cressida to Paris

and gallons of try and think about these couples and

how they are similar or different toe.

One other.

So a said Lady Macbeth is not about love as

equal, despite being his asthma, Beth as partner off greatness.

So only Macbeth is the focus of this place in

act for Mobile goes to see the witches again, and

they show him a series of spirits and demons.

And there is a vision of Banquo and eight of

his Children crowned and they prop assign three more things.

You can see them in this line and they're riddles

in themselves.

Macbeth must sold them.

Beware. Beware, Macduff.

Okay, that that's That's a good one.

None of women worn show harm about now, huh?

Think of this.

How that feels.

Um uh, courageous.

Because he now knows that no man or woman can

harm him.

And the 3rd 1 is my best shall never vanquished

be until great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall

come against him.

So it's not possible that the forest should move.

And he thinks he's quite safe on is relieved because

of these prophecies.

But what has happened to McDuck?

In the meantime, he has fled to England to join

Malcolm Soma.

Beth sends assassins to seize Madoffs Castle and kill his

wife and Children.

So even though the prophecy says, Beware, Macduff, many people

have been asking whether this was necessary to kill my

gulfs wife and Children.

Why did Shakespeare do it?

Why did he make this scene?

Eso unbearable to watch Because the prior to the murder

weekend. See the Children just having a very nice intelligent

talk with their mother and then all of a sudden

they will get were killed.

In the meantime, we have, of course, in enact by

already Act five, Scene one, the famous sleepwalking scene.

So Lady Macbeth has fits of sleepwalking and interest.

Sleepwalking. She experiences the night of dunk of murder over

and over again.

She believes her hands to be blood stained by saying

out them Spot out, I say.

And then she basically relives the night when Duncan Waas

killed. So let me just assume that in she says

Hell is murky.

Ah, hands murky.

Would should have basically means that everything around her is

dark. It's gloomy.

And she's so familiar with the darkness.

You know she is sleeping in this scene.

Sleepwalking, elastic.

Now she remembers her own words by my Lord, by

a soldier and a beard and so on.

Then I guess this line is the most genius lying

the whole play.

Definitely to me, she says.

Yet who sold the old man to have had so

much blood in him?

Huh Mean these must be the most horrible lines.

The whole play.

It's not funny.

Sorry, I laughed, but she refers to the amount of

blood that Duncan had in his body.

So she was unscrupulous and cruel at the beginning of

the play.

But now she's tormented with the images of blood, and

at the end she kills herself.

So we have this progression from, Ah, her saying to

move it.

Consider it not so deeply or where she says, a

little water clears us of this deed all up to

her suicide.

And now the circle is full.

And at the same time we see Macbeth when he

says, I have almost forgot the taste off fears.

Isn't this a nihilistic?

I mean, there is nihilism, ALS, the four major tragedies

and, for example, in Hamlet when she when he says,

and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

Remember that line or in a fellow when he says,

Ah, referring to Desdemona, when I love thee, not chaos

is come again.

Of course, in King Lear, uh, the most famous nihilistic

line is as flies to wanton boys.

Are we to the gods?

They kill us for their sport.

And now, of course.

Um, I have to say that I think is the

most nihilistic old aboard of tragedies.

And maybe this is the reason while you why you

like this play so much, I will end this lecture

with his nihilistic speech.

This is his reaction to Lady Macbeth's death.

You cannot actually feel it.

I think, uh, he has become so insensitive.

And this speech alone is worth the trouble off watching

move Beth.

And it can be also redder the suffered home.

So I knew it.

You tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.

Creeks in this Betty pennies from day today to the

last syllable of recorded time.

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to

Dusty tha.

So basically, he says, with each day that passes, we

come mirror closer to death.

He calls humanity foolish.

He says every man and woman in this world is

a fool because with each day that passes which eat

with each yesterday were closer to death than humans are

out out.

Brief candle.

Of course, it would brief candle.

He refers to this life Candle is a metaphor for

life because if you money, if you picture a candle,

it gets smaller and smaller as it burns down.

He wants this scandal to be extinguished.

He wants his life to bend.

Why is but a walking shadow like an illusion once

it Ah, the poor player that struts and press his

hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

So life is here, compared in this beautiful metaphor to

an actor, a four player who is very grave and

bowls while he's on stage.

But when he gets on the stage, he's hurt no

more. Of course, the spade here is another metaphor for

life. Remember that that she's a favorite a comparison when

he says All the world's a stage.

It is a tale told by an idiot full of

sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Now this.

It's so nihilistic when Morris says it is a tale

told by an idiot eat trippers to life and sound

and fury.

This race, inspired with your poker, to name his most

famous novel into sound and the Fury and the first

character who speaks in this novel is actually an idiot

too literally and the best and his you bendable history

by saying that the line, generally speaking, signifies nothing.

If this doesn't get you.

Nothing will trust me.

I think there is so much truth do these lines.

And, uh, because of this speech, I guess even if

we have identified with my best by now, and we

should have, we feel that his death is justified and

justifiable. And we feel happy for over I think he

deserves or to die in the end.

So it's not like with the Lear and Othello and

Hamlet whose death we feel to be are devastating here.

We feel that Beth finds true happiness in his death.

Even more so than Hamilton fell.

Linking were old off full four characters in old.

The major tragedies are quite happy to die.

And I think this is the overall message that we

should take from Aled.

These four major tragedies.

I would love to hear from you in the exam,

of course, of which of these four you liked best

and why?

So we think about that.

And, uh, you will first read more text from a

breath with your tutorials.

Next time I will speak about my favorite play.

And that is Julius.

Macbeth, part 4

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