“Besides, this Duncan
Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
So clear in his great office, that his virtues
Will plead like angels.”
In this passage Macbeth says how great a king Duncan is because he is stating that even if he gets assassinated today he will be greeted by angels to take him up to heaven because all he did in his life time was treat people with kindness and he was a really good person to everyone and to Macbeth as well.
“then, as his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself.”
In this he is contemplating his murder by saying he as the host should be against the murder of his king and he should be the one protecting him at his house but he is going to be the one holding the knife to kill the king who has done nothing wrong to him at all.
October 3, 2016 at 5:00 pm
This is very nicely done, with much greater detail than most. Nice.
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