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‘Fair Is Foul & Foul Is Fair’…

‘Fair Is Foul & Foul Is Fair’…. MacBeth. Act 1. Act One, Scene I.

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‘Fair Is Foul & Foul Is Fair’…

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  1. ‘Fair Is Foul & Foul Is Fair’… MacBeth Act 1

  2. Act One, Scene I • In the beginning of act one, when the witches are meeting up with one another (after the battle between MacBeth and MacDonald has finsihed) they rehearse a line in the story which is very crucial to act one as a whole. (It fortells a lot of karma which will happen throughout act one and also, the play itself. • ‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air’. (Shakespeare, pg.3, line12). • MacBeth has defeated MacDonald and the Norwegians in their first battle against each other.

  3. Act One, Scene II • The sergeant gives King Duncan information and new updates on the battle that has just occurred between MaBeth, Malcolm and the Norwegians. When Ross arrives in the scene, he delivers more news about another battle that has just occurred. Duncan announces that MacBeth is going to be the new Thane of Cawdor. • “What he hath lost, noble MacBeth hath won”. (Shakespeare, pg.7, line 67).

  4. Act One, Scene III The ‘Weird Sisters’(the three witches) foretell that Banquo’s offspring will become Kings in the upcoming future, at first Banquo’s reaction was eager to know more of what was yet to come, but the more the ‘Weird Sisters’ talked to MacBeth about how he was going to be the next King of Scotland, he realized that something was wrong. Meanwhile, MacBeth was enjoying the fact that he was going to be the next King, and too gullible, and proud to realize that these were still three ladies that he had never encountered before. Banquo, being a good friend tries telling MacBeth to watch himself while talking to these strange women. He was too caught up in the moment, and thinking about all the power he would have to come back to reality to see past the exciting news about him and what was going to happen in a matter of time, and that these three myterious ladies were up to no good.

  5. Act One, Scene IV • MacBeth is with the King(Duncan) when he crowns Malcolm the Prince of Cumberland. MacBeth is astonished by the fact that he had chosen Malcolm over him, because he felt that he deserved it more. • ‘The Prince of Cumberland: that is a step on which I must fall down or o’erleap, For in my way it lies’. (Shakespeare, pg.21, line 49). • ‘It is a banquet to me. Let’s after him, Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome: It is a peerless kinsman. (Shakespeare, pg.21, line 56). This is the part where King Duncan invites himself to MacBeth’s castle.

  6. Act One, Scene V • Lady MacBeth receives a letter from MacBeth suggesting that he has conversed with the three ‘Weird Sisters’, and while speaking with them, they had mentioned that he(in the near future) would hail and be crowned as the new King of Scotland. • ‘Look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’th’. (Shakespeare, pg.27, line 63). Meaning that MacBeth (as well as Lady MacBeth) must be welcoming and gracious on the outside like a flower and to appear gentile and humbling, but to be evil and mischievous on the inside, as if he were an actual snake.

  7. Act One, Scene VI • Lady Macbeth encourages MacBeth to commit the murder of her own brother, King Duncan, so that MacBeth can reign as the King himself, which means that she(Lady MacBeth will have power as well), while encouraging and engadging in her own brother’s murder, she grows ‘Power-Hungry’, she feels it in her reach, and is not going to let anyone get in her way of becoming royalty, even if it does mean killing her one of her own. • ‘Where’s the Thane of Cawdor? We coursed him at the heels and had a purpose to be his purveyor, but he rides well, And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him to his home before us. Fair and noble hostess, We are your guest tonight’. (Shakespeare, pg.29, line 22).

  8. ‘How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from it’s boneless gums and dashed his brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this’. (Shakespeare, pg.33, line 55). • Meaning, that is she said that she was going to kill her baby, even if it were smiling in her face, if she said that she was going to kill it, she would do it, and not go back on her word like she said MacBeth had done. Act One, Scene VII • MacBeth has second thoughts about killing King Duncan, and once he confesses to Lady MacBeth that he is not feeling comfortable with committing the murder, she gets furious with MacBeth because he goes back on his word. She feels that he is incompetent and is not man enough to do the job.

  9. Work Cited Page(s)-- • (Unknown Author)Keane, Charles. ‘MacBeth and Lady MacBeth’. MacBeth. 1858. 15 September 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth/=[http://www.peopleplayuk.org.uk/ PeoplePlay Theatre History] |Date=1858 |Author=unknown |Permission=public domain. • Wet, Jacob de. ‘17th cent. portrait of Donnchad I (Duncan I)/King Duncan’. MacBeth. 2007. 24 July 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacbethAndBanquo/=[http://www.peopleplayuk.org.uk/ PeoplePlay Theatre History] |Date=1858 |Author=unknown |Permission=public domain/[http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/CXM.HTM] • Füssli,Johann Heinrich. ‘Macbeth and Banquo with the Witches’. MacBeth. 1741-1825/1040-1057/2006. 14 April 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Macbeth_and_Banquo_with_the_witches_JHF.jpg/[http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/CXM.HTM] • Pndapetzim, Deacon of. ‘Malcolm III, king of Scotland’. MacBeth. 2007. 16 June 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Malcolm_III.jpg

  10. Works Cited Page (2) -- • Bhoeble. ‘Lady MacBeth’. MacBeth. 2006. 1 August 2008. {{Information| |Description= == Summary == en:Ellen Terry as en:Lady Macbeth by en:John Singer Sargent (1889). Oil on canvas, 87 x 45 in (221 x 114.3 cm), en:Tate Britain, en:London. |Source= |Date= |Author=User [[:en:User:Bhoeble • (Unknown Author). ‘MacBeth’s Castle’. 2008. 25 January 2008. http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/gallery_images/0506/0000/0690/Cawdor_Castle_Act_1_sc_5_mid.jpg • (Unknown Author). ‘Letters’. 2000. 13 November 2005. http://pericat.ca/unlock/temp-images/3180letter480x360.jpg • (Unknown Author) ‘Lady Macbeth, Furious’. 2003. 12 July 2005. http://www.american-pictures.com/genealogy/descent/photos/Macbeth.2.jpg

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