FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Raven
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Frog
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Bear
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Panda
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Act 1, Scene 5, Lady Macbeth declares that ‘the raven himself is hoarse’ and then follows up with ‘that croaks the fatal entrance of Macbeth’. By this, she is referring to the mythology around ravens as being portents of doom.
Detailed explanation-2: -This soliloquy demonstrates the moral and physical destruction of Lady Macbeth. She is now weak, vulnerable, and unable to care for herself. It also shows the guilt she feels because of the murder. In her speech, she first relives the murder of Duncan, then Macduff’s wife, and then Banquo.
Detailed explanation-3: -Shakespeare’s tragedies and histories are filled with crows, owls, and ravens, birds of evil portent, promising sickness and death.
Detailed explanation-4: -As she awaits her husband’s arrival, she delivers a famous speech in which she begs, “you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full / Of direst cruelty” (1.5.38–41).
Detailed explanation-5: -After the messenger has left, the first thing Lady Macbeth says is, “The raven himself is hoarse / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan / Under my battlements” (1.5. 38-40). The raven is a bird of ill omen, and Lady Macbeth means that the raven is hoarse from saying again and again that King Duncan must die.