Not the hero, the warrior, the king, but the tyrant-again-the monster, the freak. People will point at you, and laugh, and mock you’ll be the prime exhibit in a freak-show, like one of the rarer monsters, a two-headed calf, a mermaid-you’ll be the headline attraction, on the posters, painted upon a pole, letting everyone know, ‘here may you see the tyrant’. (Again it’s a nod forward to Antony and Cleopatra: that public humiliation in a Roman triumph is what Cleopatra dreads and refuses.) You’ll be blinking in the glare of the flashbulbs, unflattering angles on the television news, unkempt and shambling. He discovers Duncans body and becomes Malcolms chief supporter, following him to England to support him in raising an army against. And live to be the show and gaze of the time, to be paraded in front of all the troops, ours and those few who’ve remained on your side. Macduff, the Thane of Fife, is Macbeths deadly enemy. Macbeth talks a little trash in return, saying hes already got enough Mac-blood on his hands (from having Macduffs entire family killed). Then yield thee, coward, says Macduff, uncompromising, turning the knife with coward. I’ll not fight with thee, he says to Macduff. They’ve destroyed me through their deceptions I believed them and it’s all come crashing down. They keep the word of promise to our ear, kept telling me everything would turn out well, that I was untouchable, invulnerable-and then break their word to our hope. Unsurprisingly, he takes the deception personally he’s been let down by voices and words that he trusted. He is a man of great integrity yet he is. ![]() ![]() I’m not going to believe these juggling fiends any longer, these trickster devils, who cheat and lie, palter with us in a double sense, deceive with their equivocations. Shakespeare uses the character of Macduff largely as a foil to show the shortcomings of his tragic hero Macbeth. But, cursing aside, that news has cowed Macbeth’s better part of man, his courage, unmanned him, he would say. Accursed be the tongue that tells me so, Macduff that is, who was (technically at least) not of woman born, untimely ripped from his mother’s womb. Temporarily at least, all the stuffing goes out of Macbeth, and he falters in the fight, and turns his ire on the witches, the apparitions, the spirits whose prophecies he trusted utterly, and which have, one by one, been shown to be so false. We’ll have thee, as our rarer monsters are, I’ll not fight with thee.Īnd live to be the show and gaze o’th’ time. That keep the word of promise to our ear,Īnd break it to our hope. While doing Macbeth in English I realized that Macbeth and Macduff were really gay for each other and had to write something for it.MACBETH Accursèd be that tongue that tells me so,Īnd be these juggling fiends no more believed, MadameAthena Fandoms: Macbeth - Shakespeare !This is a joke omg what has happened to my life yes i did this instead of revising please don't take this seriously! Language: English Words: 8,881 Chapters: 5/5 Comments: 7 Kudos: 29 Bookmarks: 8 Hits: 505 It appears that the prime reason for Lady Macduff being included in the play is to paint a human face on yet another victim of Macbeth as his acts of evil become even more blatant and. ![]() Macbeth learns Macduff is the child of a caesarean birth (loophole), realises he is doomed, and submits to his enemy.
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