FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Macbeth
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Duncan
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Lady Macbeth
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Banquo
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Detailed explanation-1: -When Lady Macbeth says, “To beguile the time, / Look like the time, ” she’s riffing on the proverb, “to beguile the time with a fair face.” In other words, Macbeth should deceive Duncan and his court by acting like a smiling, welcoming host in order to hide his evil intentions.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lady Macbeth is determined to convince her…show more content… To beguile the time, Look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue. Look like th’ innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t.”(1.5.
Detailed explanation-3: -The serpent is a symbol used to represent treachery. Lady Macbeth warns her husband to ‘look like the innocent flower, /But be the serpent under’t’ (I. 5.63–4). Effect. The symbolism here shows that Lady Macbeth wishes her husband to appear well-meaning and gentle to hide his deceit.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lady Macbeth continues with another clothing metaphor, describing Macbeth as having dressed himself in hope. Then she equates Macbeth with hope personified: was hope (Macbeth) drunk earlier when it was so bold, and now has awoken green and pale with a hangover and become fearful?
Detailed explanation-5: -After announcing that his son is to receive the highest honor of heir to the throne, Duncan reassured Macbeth that other honors, like stars, will shine on everyone who deserves them (line 42). Here, Macbeth picks up on that simile, saying he does not want the stars to shine on him, lest they reveal his dark desires.