DEFINITION = The idea of perfection; Progressive change into an idea of a utopian society. This idea of modernism has taken part in many aspects of human life such as art, architecture, literature and philosophy.

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• “Modernistic Architecture”

This type of architecture dramatically reflects the ideas of modernism on all aspects. In comparison to architecture of the past, modernist architecture limits materials and colors used extensively. It is very different to past architecture, and that is what makes modernism. The idea of progression into a better society.

Malcolm and Macduff have a conversation. Malcolm attempts to reveal Macduff’s true self to whether he is loyal to Macbeth or not. Malcom does this by saying really bad things about himself, pretending in order to see if Macduff reveals bad things about himself. It turns out Macduff is loyal to Scotland and if Macbeth is loyal to Scotland too then He is loyal to Macbeth. At the time Macduff wasn’t aware that his wife, children and servants were killed. Rosse soon appears on stage telling him what happened. This causes Macduff to have a vendetta against Macbeth, he wants revenge for what he did to his family.

“Cut short all intermission; front to front bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself; within my sword’s length set him; if he ‘scape, heaven forgive him too!” Said by Macduff, this is his tipping point, he now is setting out for revenge against Macbeth.

Macduff leaves scotland and his wife isn’t happy with this as he didn’t inform her he’d be doing so. She feels betrayed by him. One of the muderes also arrive on stage. They were told by Macbeth to kill Macduff and his family. The murderer only manages to kill one of the family members, Macduffs son.

“I have done no harm. But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harms often laudable” Said by Lady Macduff, she means that even though she hasn’t done anything of harms way, her husband has therefore she will also pay for the crimes of what he as done.

The three witches spoke to Macbeth, offering him three “apparitions” these apparitions are horrifying, vivid objects that assist with helping Macbeth diminish his fears. The three apparitions consisted of a head that had been cut off, a bloody child and a royal child holding a tree in hand. The first apparition, the severed head, was a way to tell Macbeth to fear Macduff. The cut off head itself speaks, saying “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff; Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough” The second apparition, the bloody child, told Macbeth to not fear any women. The final apparition, the royal childing holding a tree, sais “Macbeth shall never vanquish’d be until great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him” the third apparition told Macbeth to not be fearful unless Birnam wood comes to Dunsinane Hill.

Hecate is a special character that the witches fear. It is both a man and a women at the same time. It speaks in Trichaicpentametre meaning it is an outer world creature. It has made its word to grant Macbeth with the gift of immortality.

Macbeth: Act 3 Scene 6

In this scene Lennox and the lord are speaking. Lennox sais various things about what happened with the murders of characters, parts of what he said weren’t necessarily true. Both Lennox and the lord believe it was Macbeth himself who killed Duncan and Banquo. The lord also mentions that Macbeth is preparing for war

MACBETH

You know your own degrees; sit down: at first

And last the hearty welcome. 

(Welcome everyone, come sit down and enjoy.)

Lords

Thanks to your majesty.

(Thank you your majesty)

MACBETH

Ourself will mingle with society,

And play the humble host.

Our hostess keeps her state, but in best time

We will require her welcome.

(we will talk with everyone as well as playing the host, we will wait for when Lady Macbeth will welcome everyone.)

LADY MACBETH

Pronounce it for me, sir, to all our friends;

For my heart speaks they are welcome.

(Say welcome for me, to everyone.)

First Murderer appears at the door

MACBETH

See, they encounter thee with their hearts’ thanks.

Both sides are even: here I’ll sit i’ the midst:

Be large in mirth; anon we’ll drink a measure

The table round.  

(And they will respond to you with their hearts as well.

The table is full on both sides. I will sit here in the middle. Be free and happy. Soon we will toast around the table.)

Approaching the door

There’s blood on thy face.

(There is blood on your face.)

First Murderer

‘Tis Banquo’s then.

(Then it must be Banquo’s)

MACBETH

‘Tis better thee without than he within.

Is he dispatch’d?

(it is better without him here. Is he dead?)

First Murderer

My lord, his throat is cut; that I did for him.

(My lord, I cut his throat.)

MACBETH

Thou art the best o’ the cut-throats: yet he’s good

That did the like for Fleance: if thou didst it,

Thou art the nonpareil.

( you are the best to cut the throats, did you do the same to Fleance, if you did, you are supreme )

First Murderer

Most royal sir,

Fleance is ‘scaped.

(Most royal Macbeth, Fleance has escaped)

MACBETH

Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect,

Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,

As broad and general as the casing air:

But now I am cabin’d, cribb’d, confined, bound in

To saucy doubts and fears. But Banquo’s safe?

( I am angry, everything else had been perfect, as perfect as a whole marble, stong as a rock, as big as the air, but I am now restricted, bound into my own doubts and fears, but is Banquo safe?)

First Murderer

Ay, my good lord: safe in a ditch he bides,

With twenty trenched gashes on his head;

The least a death to nature.

(Yes my lord, he is lying dead in a ditch with gashes all over him)

MACBETH

Thanks for that:

There the grown serpent lies; the worm that’s fled

Hath nature that in time will venom breed,

No teeth for the present. Get thee gone: to-morrow

We’ll hear, ourselves, again.

(Thanks for that. The adult snake lies in the ditch. The young snake that escaped will in time become a threat, but for now, he has no fangs. Get out of here. I’ll talk to you tomorrow.)

Exit Murderer

LADY MACBETH

My royal lord,

You do not give the cheer: the feast is sold

That is not often vouch’d, while ’tis a-making,

‘Tis given with welcome: to feed were best at home;

From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony;

Meeting were bare without it.

(king there is no joy, we have given the welcome but now they are waiting to be fed)

MACBETH

Sweet remembrancer!

Now, good digestion wait on appetite,

And health on both!

(oh no! It’s ok the food will be out soon.)

LENNOX

May’t please your highness sit.

(Please sit your highness)

The GHOST OF BANQUO enters, and sits in MACBETH’s place

MACBETH

Here had we now our country’s honour roof’d,

Were the graced person of our Banquo present;

Who may I rather challenge for unkindness

Than pity for mischance!

(We would have everyone noble in Scotland here if Banquo was present, I hope that he is late and nothing bad has happened to him)

ROSS

His absence, sir,

Lays blame upon his promise. Please’t your highness

To grace us with your royal company.

(He’s absent sir, he broke his promise. Please your highness, grace us with your company)

MACBETH

The table’s full.

(the table’s full.)

LENNOX

Here is a place reserved, sir.

(There is a place reserved for you here, sir.)

MACBETH

Where?

(where?)

LENNOX

Here, my good lord. What is’t that moves your highness?

(Here my lord, what’s wrong with your highness?)

MACBETH

Which of you have done this?

(which one of you did this?)

Lords

What, my good lord?

(What, My good lord?)

MACBETH

Thou canst not say I did it: never shake

Thy gory locks at me. (You can’t say that I did it, don’t shake your head at me)

ROSS

Gentlemen, rise: his highness is not well.

(Stand up gentlemen, his highness is not well)

LADY MACBETH

Sit, worthy friends: my lord is often thus,

And hath been from his youth: pray you, keep seat;

The fit is momentary; upon a thought

He will again be well: if much you note him,

You shall offend him and extend his passion:

Feed, and regard him not. Are you a man?

(Sit down my friends, my husband is often like this, even when he was a child, please sit down. This is just a brief fit, he will be well again, don’t pay attention to him or he will be angry, just eat your food. Are you a man?)

MACBETH

Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that

Which might appal the devil.

(Yes and a bold one, a daring look that might appeal to the devil.)

LADY MACBETH

O proper stuff!

This is the very painting of your fear:

This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said,

Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws and starts,

Impostors to true fear, would well become

A woman’s story at a winter’s fire,

Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself!

Why do you make such faces? When all’s done,

You look but on a stool.

( Oh proper stuff! This is your fears, the murder weapon that you killed duncun with, these flaws and starts are not close to what real fear is, what would become storys pasted down generations. Shameful! Why do you make those faces, when everything is done, you look like a king on the throne.)

MACBETH

Prithee, see there! behold! look! lo!

how say you?

Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too.

If charnel-houses and our graves must send

Those that we bury back, our monuments

Shall be the maws of kites.

(Please just look over there, look! (To Ghost) Look, see, what do you have to say? What do I care? If you can nod then speak as well. If the dead are going to return from their graves, then there is nothing to stop the birds from eating their bodies, so we might as well not bury our people at all.)

GHOST OF BANQUO vanishes

LADY MACBETH

What, quite unmann’d in folly?

(What? Has your foolishness paralyzed you?)

MACBETH

If I stand here, I saw him.

(As sure as I’m standing here, I saw him.)

LADY MACBETH

Fie, for shame!

(Nonsense!)

MACBETH

Blood hath been shed ere now, i’ the olden time,

Ere human statute purged the gentle weal;

Ay, and since too, murders have been perform’d

Too terrible for the ear: the times have been,

That, when the brains were out, the man would die,

And there an end; but now they rise again,

With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,

And push us from our stools: this is more strange

Than such a murder is.

(blood has been shed now, and in the past. Horrible murders happen everyday, but now they have come back as ghosts.) 

LADY MACBETH

My worthy lord,

Your noble friends do lack you.

(my worthy lord, your noble friends miss you.)

MACBETH

I do forget.

Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends,

I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing

To those that know me. Come, love and health to all;

Then I’ll sit down. Give me some wine; fill full.

I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table,

And to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss;

Would he were here! to all, and him, we thirst,

And all to all.

(I forgot about them. Don’t be shocked on my account, my friends. I have a strange condition which doesn’t surprise those who know me well. (raising his glass to toast the guests) Come, let’s toast to love and health to you all. Now I’ll sit down. Give me some wine. Fill my cup.)

Lords 

Our duties, and the pledge.

(Hear hear!)

Re-enter GHOST OF BANQUO

MACBETH

Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!

Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold;

Thou hast no speculation in those eyes

Which thou dost glare with!

(Go! Out of my sight! Stay in the ground. Your bones no longer contain marrow, your blood is cold. You’re looking at me with eyes that can no longer see.)

LADY MACBETH

Think of this, good peers,

But as a thing of custom: ’tis no other;

Only it spoils the pleasure of the time.

(Good friends, this is nothing more than a habit. It’s nothing else. It’s only spoiling our pleasure tonight)

MACBETH

What man dare, I dare:

Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,

The arm’d rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;

Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves

Shall never tremble: or be alive again,

And dare me to the desert with thy sword;

If trembling I inhabit then, protest me

The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow!

Unreal mockery, hence!

(I am as brave as any other man to come at me in the form of a rugged Russain bear, the armed rhinoceros, or a tiger from Iran. Take any shape other than the one you have now and I will never be scared . Or come back to life again and challenge me to a duel. If I am scared then call me a little girl, get out of here you horrible ghost, you’re a hallucination, get out!)

GHOST OF BANQUO leaves

Why, so: being gone,

I am a man again. Pray you, sit still.
( Look, now that it has left, I’m a man again, please stay seated.)

LADY MACBETH

You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,

With most admired disorder.

(you’ve ruined the whole dinner party)

MACBETH

Can such things be,

And overcome us like a summer’s cloud,

Without our special wonder? You make me strange

Even to the disposition that I owe,

When now I think you can behold such sights,

And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks,

When mine is blanched with fear.

(How can such things happen, overcome us without our curiosity? When you look at these terrible things, you keep a straight face, whilst mine is white with fear)

ROSS

What sights, my lord?

(What things my lord?)

LADY MACBETH

I pray you, speak not; he grows worse and worse;

Question enrages him. At once, good night:

Stand not upon the order of your going,

But go at once.

(please don’t speak to him, he’s gone a bit mad. I’m sorry you all have to leave in such a hurry and I hope you had a good night.)

LENNOX

Good night; and better health

Attend his majesty!

(Good night, and i hope his majesty gets better soon.)

LADY MACBETH

A kind good night to all!

(Good night everyone.)

Everyone leaves except Macbeth and Lady Macbeth

MACBETH

It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood:

Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;

Augurs and understood relations have

By magot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth

The secret’st man of blood. What is the night?

( everything will have blood and get revenge for unnatural things have come alive, what is the time of night?) 

LADY MACBETH

Almost at odds with morning, which is which.

(almost morning, hard to tell whether it’s day or night)  

MACBETH

How say’st thou, that Macduff denies his person

At our great bidding?

(Why do you think that Macduff refuses to come when I command him?)

LADY MACBETH

Did you send to him, sir?

(Did you ask for him sir?)

MACBETH

I hear it by the way; but I will send:

There’s not a one of them but in his house

I keep a servant fee’d. I will to-morrow,

And betimes I will, to the weird sisters:

More shall they speak; for now I am bent to know,

By the worst means, the worst. For mine own good,

All causes shall give way: I am in blood

Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more,

Returning were as tedious as go o’er:

Strange things I have in head, that will to hand;

Which must be acted ere they may be scann’d.

(I have paid for a servant to spy. Tomorrow I will go find the witches and I will make them tell me what is going on. My safety is the most important thing to me, I have caused so much trouble that I can’t go any further. I cannot go back. I have plans that i need to put in action before i think about it.) 

LADY MACBETH

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

(You don’t seem like yourself, you should get some sleep)

MACBETH

Come, we’ll to sleep. My strange and self-abuse

Is the initiate fear that wants hard use:

We are yet but young in deed.

(Let’s go to sleep, My strange delusions are what causes my fear: We are new to crime)

End

Lady Macbeth and Macbeth both have secretive thoughts on how they actually feel. Lady Macbeth has the feeling of dissatisfaction even though she has gotten what she wanted. This is also the case with Macbeth.

“O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!” Macbeth said this, he means that his mind is full of bad things, he is referring bad things as scorpions.

Macbeth: Act 3 Scene 3

The two murderers Macbeth hired find Banquo and his son, Fleance. Along with the two murderers there is a third that they were not informed about. Banquo ends up suffering the fate of death but he bought enough time so his son could make it out of there alive. This is bad for Macbeth as Banquo’s son is now a witness to what just happened.

After a few short minutes of Macbeth killing Duncan, he becomes king. Everything the witches told him would come true, came true. Although he has everything he wants, he still has this extreme feeling of guilt which has lead him to having paranoia. This paranoia is messing with his mind. He has hired two murderers and ordered them to kill Banquo and his son Fleance. Although Banquo was his friend the paranoia that has built up in Macbeths mind has led him to doing this.

Pathetic Fallacy is used a lot in this scene. Due to King Duncan being killed, Ross and the old man mention how although it is day, it feels more like night time. This is a perfect example of Pathetic Fallacy as it shows that the sun seases to go up because King Duncan is dead. Malcom and Donalbain have both ran away which causes them to not be heir to king now, giving MacBeth the perfect opportunity to become so.

“Gainst nature still! Thriftless ambition, that will ravin up thine own life means!” said by Ross, he is referring to Macbeth on how he has “thriftless ambition” he will go beyond his morals and values because of this ambition he has inside of him; His ambition is the a prime reason he actually went along with the murdering of Duncan.

After the night of the muder, the two guards wake up to find their master dead. They’re instantly accused of killing king duncan and are then executed. King duncans son, Malcmom, is also a suspect as he ran away from the castle. The truth is Macbeth did the dirty deed and the only reason Malcom has ran is because he knows he would be next to die as he was heir to Duncan.

“Here lay Duncan, His silver skin laced with his golden blood.” said by Macbeth, he means that Duncan had a heart of gold. He was nice and humble. Ultimately Macbeth acting out this greif helped with him getting away with the murder.