Monday, June 11, 2012

Describe the murder plot macbeth devices in scene 1, please and thank you.

Well, here's the whole brilliant (sarcasm) plot in Lady Macbeth and Macbeth's own words:



LADY MACBETH:


...When Duncan is asleep—


Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey


Soundly invite him—his two chamberlains


Will I with wine and wassail so convince,


That memory, the warder of the brain,


Shall be a fume and the receipt of reason


A limbec only. When in swinish sleep


Their drenched natures lie as in a death,


What cannot you and I perform upon


The unguarded Duncan? What not put upon


His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt


Of our great quell?


MACBETH:


...Will it not be received,


When we have mark'd with blood those sleepy two


Of his own chamber, and used their very daggers,


That they have done't?


LADY MACBETH:


Who dares receive it other,


As we shall make our griefs and clamor roar


Upon his death?



So the plan goes as follows: When old and already tuckered out Duncan is asleep and his guards are almost dead from alcohol and drugs, Macbeth is to go in and kill the sleeping Duncan. Then he is to take the daggers from the knocked out guards, dip the daggrs in the King's blood, and smear the guards with the blood. Then he and Lady Macbeth are to quick put on their jammies and go to bed. Then when whoever finds the dead Duncan, Macbeth and his awakened Lady are to run downstairs and look all horrified and shocked. Does such a plan have a chance... are people that gullible?

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