ACT 5 SCENE 3 identifying language features
Seyton!—I am sick at heart, sick at heart personification for grief iambic pentameter
When I behold—Seyton, I say!—This push push verb referring to the battle iambic pentameter
I have lived long enough. My way of life iambic pentameter
Is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf, sere: dry or withered iambic pentameter
Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now. disseat verb referring to throne iambic pentameter
And that which should accompany old age, iambic pentameter
As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, iambic pentameter
I must not look to have, but, in their stead, iambic pentameter
Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath iambic pentameter
Which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not. poor heart personification iambic pentameter
Seyton!
Analysis Macbeth expresses his willingness to pursue the battle. This is introduced through him rallying courage despite his worries. An example of this is “I am sick at heart” which is personification for grieving or feeling unsettled ;how ever he also states “When I behold-seyton I say!-this push”. This tells us he is worried but also give off the what have I got to loose impression because he is still charging into battle . This attitude is reinforced by the next line “I have lived long enough. My way of life” .
Quotes:
“To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus” (3.1) Macbeth speaks this line after he has become king, but continues to feel restless and insecure.
” I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself
And falls on th’other ” Macbeth speaks these lines as he starts to doubt his plan to murder Duncan. He uses a complicated metaphor that compares his experience to horse-riding. He describes being unable to motivate himself to take action by likening himself to a rider who cannot use his spurs to motivate his horse to go faster. In this case his horse is his ambition to become king and he is not mentally strong enough to motivate his horse.
“Thou wouldst be great
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it ” Lady Macbeth speaks these lines as she reflects on her husband’s character. She knows that Macbeth is capable of ambitious dreams, but she thinks that he is unwilling to display the ruthless behavior necessary to achieve those dreams lacking mental strength.
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“to be king stands not in the prospect of belief, no more to be cawdor”
“that is a step On which i must fall down, or else o’erlep, for in my way it lies” the steps are the ones referring to the ones in his way to become monarch which are banquo and duncan.
we’d jump the life to come
“vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itslef”
“that but this blow might be the be-all and end-all” when Macbeth is contemplating murdering duncan. he wants to achieve the action of becoming the king without the reaction from the wider world.
“The raven himslef is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of duncan under my battlements. Come,you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts,unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the topful of direst cruelty”act 1 scene 5
unsex meaning she becomes something non human. A being full of cruelty from crown to toe. Crown usually meaning head however it is too fitting that they are talking about ascending to king to use the word crown. raven death battlements lady macbeths house
Art thou afeared to be in thine own act and valour, as thou art in desire lady Macbeth tries to convince Macbeth to seize his ambition through calling him frightened this is comparable to the saying the pour cat in the i’th’adage meaning a cat that wants to fish but doesn’t want to get its feet wet.
After which Macbeth kills the king he breaks the natural order spiralling the natural world in to chaos. as seen in these quotes
Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare. It is considered one of his darkest and most powerful tragedies. Set in Scotland, the play dramatizes the corrosive psychological and political effects produced when its protagonist, the Scottish lord Macbeth, chooses evil as the way to fulfill his ambition for power.
tyrant a cruel and oppressive ruler
Killing a worthy and rightful king is an evil act. Macbeth is obsessed with and possessed by his desire to become king once he is given the prophecy by the witches. … His intention in writing Macbeth was to entertain his audience, and to tip his hat to his benefactor, King James at the same time.
supernatural forces might be controlling Macbeth’s actions, and that he might actually be an innocent party led towards his ruin.
First, King James was previously interested in demonology, including witchcraft. Several witches had been foiled in their attempt to place on a curse on James when he was king of Scotland. … Interestingly, Shakespeare wrote Macbeth as a tribute to King James, the new monarch of England at the time.
STRUCTURE-
introduction- state what the play is about and what makes it a ingenious piece of literary work
body- each paragraph is a different point contributing to answering your question.
conclusion- summaries and come to a final judgement of the question say how you have proven your point