FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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The Witches
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Lady Macbeth
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Macduff
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Porter
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Shakespeare’s works, the word “durst” means “dare” or “dared.” Here are some examples from Shakespeare’s plays: 1. “
Detailed explanation-2: -Macbeth declares that he no longer intends to kill Duncan. Lady Macbeth, outraged, calls him a coward and questions his manhood: “When you durst do it, ” she says, “then you were a man” (1.7.49). He asks her what will happen if they fail; she promises that as long as they are bold, they will be successful.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lady Macbeth asks Macbeth, “you were a man; / And, to be more than what you were, you would/ Be so much more the man.” (1.7. 51-53). Lady Macbeth repeatedly questions Macbeth’s manhood since he lacks the strength to do what needs to be done. She berates and humiliates Macbeth in order to manipulate him to do her will.
Detailed explanation-4: -This symbolically foreshadows Macbeth’s fate at the end of the play: because by ‘daring to do more’ with his murders of Duncan, Banquo and Macduff’s family, he ultimately dies, thereby losing his state as a ‘man’ and becomes, literally, no-one – ‘none’.