FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Macbeth’s mental torment following the death of Duncan.
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Macbeth’s inability to accomplish anything as king.
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the witches’ prophecy that Banquo’s descendants would be kings.
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Macbeth’s suspicions that his subjects did not respect him.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In this metaphor, Macbeth notes that the witches handed him a scepter by prophesying that he would become king. But the scepter is barren, or infertile, because they also predicted that he will not have male heirs, and thus the scepter and the kingship will pass to an unrelated person.
Detailed explanation-2: -"Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, and put a barren scepter in my gripe, Thence to be wrenched from an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding.” Macbeth: Means that he cannot have children( barren scepter, unlineal hand)
Detailed explanation-3: -unlineal hand ] a hand of one not belonging to Macbeth’s lineage.
Detailed explanation-4: -Once the servant has gone, Macbeth begins a soliloquy. He muses on the subject of Banquo, reflecting that his old friend is the only man in Scotland whom he fears. He notes that if the witches’ prophecy is true, his will be a “fruitless crown, ” by which he means that he will not have an heir (3.1.62).