https://padlet.com/plindsey7385/w1qiywian0n697gj Kira Stokoe, Peyton Lindsey, and Hayes Heatwole en-us 2021-03-17 20:49:58 UTC 2021-03-18 12:47:13 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3eb.png plindsey7385 https://padlet.com/plindsey7385/w1qiywian0n697gj/wish/1322761296 Throughout Macbeth, blood represents remorse. As the play gains momentum and Macbeth and Lady Macbeth kill more people in their search of the throne, the symbol grows more powerful. Blood becomes a marker for the failure to reverse deeds like murder. For instance, in Act 3, Scene 4, Macbeth says: ''I am in blood / Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er.'' (3.4.168-170) Macbeth feels terrible for the atrocities he has perpetrated and realizes that his choices are immutable. He is drowning in his own conscience. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth contend with the failure to clean the blood off their hands no matter how hard they splash water over their skin. Since Macbeth and his wife are unable to properly wipe the blood off their hands, they are also unable to rid themselves of the shame precipitated by their conduct.]]> 2021-03-17 20:56:09 UTC https://padlet.com/plindsey7385/w1qiywian0n697gj/wish/1322761296 plindsey7385 https://padlet.com/plindsey7385/w1qiywian0n697gj/wish/1322769798 In Macbeth, sleep symbolizes harmony and innocence. Lady Macbeth's proclamation to her husband after noticing his troubled behavior highlights her loss of peace. She says in Act 3, Scene 4: ''You lack the season of all natures, sleep,'' which means that his lack of sleep is driving him mad. Sleep can help us remain in balance, but a lack of sleep disturbs one's inner peace. (3.4.173) Not only has Macbeth spoiled Duncan's night, but he has also harmed his own chance to sleep comfortably. The magnitude of his actions has triggered an unbearable internal struggle, locking Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's fates. Since murdering Duncan and having Banquo murdered, Macbeth is bedeviled with delusions and his wife sleepwalks.]]> 2021-03-17 20:59:24 UTC https://padlet.com/plindsey7385/w1qiywian0n697gj/wish/1322769798 plindsey7385 https://padlet.com/plindsey7385/w1qiywian0n697gj/wish/1322946787 Macbeth's Act 3, Scene 4 is essential to the drama because it is the first period in the play that Macbeth explicitly discloses his emotional distress to others; this revelation of his worries to others represents a turning point in the play. Since the events at the banquet illustrate that Macbeth can no longer pretend to be guiltless. Even with Lady Macbeth's efforts to explain to the guests that Macbeth's "fit is momentary," the guests are dumbfounded as Macbeth talks with the ghost of Banquo, even confronting it. Lady Macbeth has lost grip over her husband, so she demands them to leave before he confesses to Duncan's murder. In addition to exposing Macbeth's fears, Macbeth makes several connections to blood as well as the supernatural: "It [the ghost] 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 maggot pies and choughs and rooks brought / forth / The secret’st man of blood.—What is the night?" (3.4.151-157) With the omens he senses, Macbeth feels coated in blood, murder, and at the hands of the supernatural. In a nutshell, he is ambivalent and distressed. This disruption throughout Macbeth, and also the parallels to blood, foreshadow both his painful end and Lady Macbeth's deterioration.]]> 2021-03-17 22:16:32 UTC https://padlet.com/plindsey7385/w1qiywian0n697gj/wish/1322946787 plindsey7385 https://padlet.com/plindsey7385/w1qiywian0n697gj/wish/1323052246 At the finale of Act 3, Scene 4, Macbeth feels that he is a victim of fate. The ghost of Banquo has just disrupted his feast, and the murderers have alerted him of their failure to destroy Fleance. Fleance's escape offers credence to the theory that Fleance is destined to be King of Scotland, although some might concede that the cause is Banquo's exercise of free will. He chose to send Fleance away and challenge the murderers on his own. At this point in the play, however, Macbeth exemplifies that, far from being a victim of fate, he retains his tyranny through his own campaign. When Lady Macbeth asks how he knows Macduff has been evading him with reason, Macbeth responds, "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 tomorrow / (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 / Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o’er." (3.4.162-170) There are many points in this passage that engage with Macbeth's free will. The first is that he has established up a community of spies to monitor to him on the words and actions of all his thanes according to his own strategy. This seems to to be his innovative concept. He then proclaims that he will go pursue additional advice from the witches. He has not been summoned. He will approach them and pressure them to speak. Macbeth then states that all other recommendations must be subordinated to his "own good," a direct argument of self-interest and self-determination. He acknowledges that it would be "tedious" to try to be virtuous now, rather than that he is fated to continue killing. So, in this relatively brief passage, there are four distinct indications that Macbeth behaves on his own volition.]]> 2021-03-17 23:11:47 UTC https://padlet.com/plindsey7385/w1qiywian0n697gj/wish/1323052246