In the First act the witches tell Macbeth that he is destined to be King. Then he starts to think if the witches are right and, writes his wife about what the witches said. The King promotes Macbeth as the Thane of Cawdor. This would make him one step closer to being King, but the King has a son meaning his son would become him if the King would past. So where does this put Macbeth? That is what he is trying to figure out. In the begenning of this act the witches say something very important which is " Fair is foul and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air". Now when I first read this I didn't understand it but bacically the witches are saying the way someone can look good on the outside may not be good in the inside. Now when Macbeth is promoted, the King is invited to home. Macbeth gets there first and hiw wife tells him that she has a plan to kill the King. Macbeth starts to back out but his wife begans to push "Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act and valor as though in desire". So now his wife is manipulating him. That's just somoething a loyal wife would do.
Right now this story is very interesting because I would have thought Macbeth's wife would be proud of her husband to get promoted by the King. It seems to me that Lady Macbeth has her mind focus on the jack pot. Poor Macbeth just out of it. Now he is about get himself tied up and he doesn't even see it. I just wonder how thigs are going to go from here....
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This is good work. I will give you a grade when you are done with all your Shakespeare posts.
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