FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Question
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Makes plans to kill the king.
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Lies to Macbeth about who will be king.
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keeps a sailors thumb as a toy
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gets drunk
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Detailed explanation-1: -They are also deeply vindictive. The First Witch vows to make the sailor suffer simply because his wife refuses to give in to her gluttonous demand. Her reaction is shockingly, disproportionately cruel: she vows to drain the life out of him until he is ‘dry as hay’ (1.3.
Detailed explanation-2: -One of the Witches describes how a sailor’s wife has insulted her and how she plans to take her revenge (’I’ll do, I’ll do, and I’ll do’). She plans to follow his ship (The Tiger) and drain the life out of him by not allowing him to sleep.
Detailed explanation-3: -The witch, with the help of her sister witches, will control the winds so that the sailor won’t be able to come into port. Contending with the storm, he won’t sleep and so he will “dwindle.” The witch gloats that “Though his bark cannot be lost, / Yet it shall be tempest-toss’d” (1.3. 24-25).
Detailed explanation-4: -First Witch All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis!