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In this essay i will be looking for quotes/deviance for Macbeth’s deteriorating state and hes mental placing in his life. in the first act and first scene Macbeth encounters three sisters who claim to be witches that can see the future say they l shall meet again upon the heath and thinks nothing of it for now. In act one scene two he is a brave and noble warrior who fights in the biggest fight of all time and he savagely kills a soldier unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps and then fixed his head on the battlements. Scotland win the everlasting battle and Macbeth is claimed to be hero by Duncan giving Macbeth a confidence booster. Macbeth once again encounters the three sisters nearby the battlefield as thunder and lighting strikes brightly down as Macbeth and ban quo approach them the witches hail down to the two men and call Macbeth thane of glamis Macbeth is confused to why he is named this as Duncan has never stated this. The three sisters then tell Macbeth that he will be the king of Scotland. Macbeth is stunned and enlightened by the idea of being a king and questions the three sisters for more information on how this is possible they ignore the three sisters. Further through the story Macbeth’s wife starts to hint towards killing king Duncan so that Macbeth will finally become a king and rule the throne. Macbeth feels uncomfortable doing the horrid deed as Macbeth is very close to Duncan and feels like it is wrong to do so. His wife starts to call Macbeth a coward and that he is scared. This eventually manipulates him to go forth with the plan to kill him but Macbeth still feels uncomfortable about doing so. Macbeth and his wife both go to the castle to complete their mission of executing him. Macbeth’s wife first gives the soldiers a glass of drugged wine to make them go to sleep. They enter the kings room to prepare to murder him Macbeth is scared to do it but his wife forces him to kill him Macbeth stabs him multiple times and after he murdered him he heard a knocking from the a door Macbeth thought it was god was coming for him as he committed a sin

I think Macbeth is trying to say that life is meaningless as he says “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day” what he is saying about life is that life is dangerous as time will try to creep up on you and try to attack when you are not ready as he says creeps in this petty pace saying time moves slowly but will catch up and get you with a surprise attack as you wont see it coming. When he says about all our yesterdays have enlightened fools. What he is trying to say about life is that people that are interested in others history are fools to be interested in people’s past/history. The way to dusty death is saying that as you live you are going to a journey to a dusty death and that no one will care when you die as this journey is pointless as a dry and boring life.

What Macbeth is trying to say about life in the tomorrow to tomorrow soliloquy. On the second line of the soliloquy Macbeth says that “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,” this means day after day it is the same then after this he says “Creeps in this petty pace from day to day”. He is trying to say that every day creeps up on him when he is not ready and that there is a pattern on a daily cycle as he is saying creeps in this petty pace. Petty pace as it has no importance and one day of this cycle and one day it will creep up on him and get him when he not ready or when he feels safe. After saying this he goes on saying “till the very last syllable” when he is saying this he means this cycle will go on till the very last word is said and when this happens every one will be dead to live the very next day and will stop the cycle.

The dagger shows how macbeth feels as he feels un sure wether to kill duncan or not. The knocking on the door after he kills duncan as he feels that god is comming to get him. Also tv wife shows how vunrble as he does what ever his wife wants to please her. When macbeth slays the many soldiers it prooves that macbeth is a blood thirsty killer but when it comes to killing duncan he is unable to do so only beacause his wife encourages him to kill him.

A dramatic device that allows the audience to be aware of things that some or all of charters in a text do not. For example if act 1 scene 4 of shake sphere’s Macbeth speaks in an aside (the audience) telling us that he’s going to have dispense with the king’s son Malcolm in order to become king himself.
pathetic fallacy is a way of showing human feelings or responses to imitate things or animals for example in act 1 scene 1 when Macbeth meets the three witches and he is told that they shall meet again. A paradox is a statement the contradicts against itself for example in act 1 scene 1 the three witches say that we will meet again when the battle is lost and won the foul is fair and fair is foul.

Beside this duncan heath borne his faculties so meek hath been so clear in his great office that his virtues will plead like angels triumphent tounged against the deep dominaion of his taking off.

Hes here in doubble trust first as i am his kingsman and his subject strong both against his murder shut the door not bear the knife myself

prince malcom there a step i must do i must kill him or remove him as he is in my way. My true desires i must keep them hidden from everyone else as they are evil.

it is strange often in order to do us harm the withces tell us the truth about matters of small importance and then betrey us in relation to somthing of importance

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I and I only was coming back from work and I was bored and tired and so I strolled down the street looking for something to do. I carried on strolling for about ten to twenty minutes until I crossed upon a forest the sign was very rusty and old and said old house forest it almost looks untouched by anyone but there looked as there was a recent struggle in the forest as there were many twigs and leaves near the gate scattered around the entrance gate it looked pretty rough. I thought to myself shall I call the police or an investigation group so I did and when I called I said to them

“I think someone has been taken by a man or woman can you please arrive here quickly”.

The police replied

“we are already on this case and we are working on it “

I don’t believe them they never do anything about anything. I plan to go here tomorrow as it is my day off and I’m free so I might as well go do something I’ll call a friend to come along with me as I’m not the bravest fella on the planet but at least I’m braver than the police.

At 12 pm I call my friend as I remember he’s on the night shift so it would be alright to call in. I asked him if it would be alright to go and go to a forest with me tomorrow after you have had a rest because we can them go out for a good while. He said why would you want to do that for a day out I said
“well I seen it and it looks pretty good so why not it will be fun”
“cool then”.
It’s around three o’clock in the evening and he still hasn’t called me yet and I’m still wondering if were even going to go out now so I stop questioning myself I go out a get a hot meal from prett I think I’ll get a mac and cheese costs £3.50 and a cup of coffee costs £1.20 jeez what a rip off these days I guess that’s what I get for going pretty eh. After eating the time is now quarter to four but still there is yet no phone call so at this point I feel like I should go and check up on him so I go and walk up to his house and after of an half an hour of walking up a hill I finally I reached his house and I rang his buzzer and he lets me in I run up the stairs and open the door I see him getting changed in a rush and I fall to my knees laughing so hard he looked a shambles when I seen him falling over trying to get his jeans on absolutely hilarious. He blushed and started laughing himself and I think my laugh because my laugh is pretty stupid. After this shambles we set of towards the forest we are scared for our lives but we still go on. Towards the forest we arrive at the entrance gate and once again I see the old rusty sign. I think twice to myself do I really want to come in here when police are even to scared to investigate the this place. Sure i do.

Here we go I throw my bag over the fence and climb over the fence and pat myself down from the dirt as I fell on my landing. My friend jumped over after me and made it look easy even half awake. We walked up ahead towards a two way passage left or right we both said left as there were more clear path so ventured forward and came across a cabin made of a old dark wood we didn’t know whether to go in or not as we were slowly becoming hungry and thirsty so we just decided to go in as it looked empty from the outside so we walk in and the kitchen table had been flipped over and all the chairs were ripped apart from top to bottom. So we went to the front part of the cabin looked like it was a living room as far as I can tell as it had sofas laid out like a family house with a TV which made me wonder how they were receiving electricity so I stepped outside to see a power box being charged by a nearby generator so I went back inside and me and my friend had some food we put in each other’s backpacks we stored sandwiches and bottles of water but we didn’t want to carry to much so we just brought the basics with us. So we quickly had a drink and half a sandwich each and headed on. We wanted to hurry as we wanted to be out of here before dark which was around 8 o’clock so we sped walked on towards a dead end so we looked for any other entrances before heading on back to the other route there was a little gap between the trees and I called my friend over to look at it. It almost felt never ending to be honest as we were walking for ages. So we carried on till we heard a branch snap we know it wasn’t us but we couldn’t see the branch so we stood dead still and silent. We could what looked to be a person’s footprint. We waited five minutes just in case he or she was to come back at all. After we were panicking on what to do next but I guess the whole point in this trip was to go and see what is so scary about this place and why there looked to be a struggle outside the gate so we go on even though the sun is slowly starting to go down why not. So we go the opposite way of the footprints to see where he or she may have come from.

So we carry on heading on and we see another generator but this one is off and there are even street lamps in this part of the forest. I decide to leave the generator for now and carry on through the dark and slated pathway my friend is filthy in dirt and has a large cut on his leg. I ask him he said that he fell over and a stone cut his leg. He’s now limping but he still can go on I fell concerned for him but ill take his word for it. He says “I can see a large beam of light coming from behind” I turn around and the light looks as it is getting closer and closer to us. I shout “RUN” I tell my friend to run up ahead as he is injured and if he slows down he will get pushed by me because I am not getting killed today. All i feel as i run is my weak heart racing and the trees and bushes flying past me i hear the man groan me and my friend follow or way got in and jump in a large bush.we her the person walk by with a huge machete and a night lamp he was breathing heavily and he had a mask but I couldn’t see what the mask looks but I see the back which was white the band was elastic and quite baggy and dirty. We went the other way and found the persons hideout I could tell by the smell of blood and corpses it stank flies flew everywhere we knew we had to go in we dashed in the old filthy cabin the door had a loud creek and slammed loudly as possible we were scared but we ran through the house and we heard screaming coming from the basement part of the log house we ran down the stairs as fast as we could every step creaked and one by one snapped but we were  safe there was raw meat it smelt gone off. Now that I look at it looked like human corpses as their skin was still decomposing labelled on each body was a news report on these missing people one was about a young girl called holly she was just graduating from college. A statement from her mum read “I pray I pray that the police can solve this case before it may be too late “ I felt so sorry for that family that has to go through the pain of losing their child I thought to myself about the screaming and ran before it was too late for this woman. We found her she was torn to pieces we were surprised to find her alive she had cuts all down her legs and arms she looked butchered. we couldn’t believe our eyes she said in weakest tone she could “save  me” we both carried  her on our shoulders and ran for the escape gate we weren’t as fast as when we first came as now there are two people injured my friend and the girl we are saving we followed back through the bush were we first saw the person guessing was a man as the footsteps that he left were huge. But we made it to the gate and I climbed over first so then the injured girl climbed over next and I caught her as she fell then I pulled my friend back over and we called an ambulance for help with the girls phone for her while waiting we noticed that we lost our phones we must have dropped them while trying to run away then we question if he’s got it.

We panic and wonder if he will find out about our details and who we talk to or where we live. We plan to- stay at a inn for the night and go and check on the woman and find out more about the guy with the white mask. We catch some sleep and wash ourselves and make a bowl of cereal and head back to the hospital and go and check up on her we find out that her name it read “Casey age 19 “we go in and ask if she is alright she replied “I’m doing alright I guess “she clearly didn’t look it but we went along with what she said and we asked her if she knew who that man was at all  she shook her head slowly and then we asked if she seen his face or not she said “scars scars  all over his face he looks like he has nearly killed himself more than a couple of times” we call the police. They arrive and they ask what is the matter is we tell them that there is a murderer in that forest the police seemed to ignore us. After a minute or so they asked us what we were doing in the forest in the first place we both said to the officer that “ the police are doing anything about this situation so we took into our own hands and we seen bodies many bodies the guy in this forest is a mass murderer”. The police don’t seem shocked and just stare at us and say a thank you and a farewell. We are all puzzled and look at each other and say that the police are behind this as they are doing nothing and dont seem to care about what is happening around in this forest. We head back there and this time its early and were more prepared for them and we are going to check out the power generator this time instead of following the path. once again we climb over the rusty old gate and find that the log cabin has changed its appearance from when we was last here the door was absolutely destroyed and by the looks as if he was looking for us in the cabin the half sandwiches were gone and so was the bottles of water someone was definitely here and not to long ago either. Like i said i would go and go towards the generators this time. The light grey boxes were cold and metal the sun was just about to rise the sky went pinkish blue and looked amazing well in my eyes it did. So once again its one of them secured doors and i give the code a go and out of nowhere i got it the code was 1967 i guess this was the guys birth date.

We open the door and there are night vision cameras covering almost everywhere of the whole forest i can see the outside of the guys cabin. There is a blood trail going up the stairs.