Read the passage from act 2, scene 3 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Porter. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery; it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.
Read the passage from act 2, scene 3 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Macbeth. Who can be wise, amaz’d, temperate and furiousLoyal and neutral, in a moment? No man:The expedition of my violent loveOutran the pauser, reason. Here lay Duncan,His silver skin lac’d with his golden blood;And his gash’d stabs look’d like a breach in natureFor ruin’s wasteful entrance: there, the murderers,Steep’d in the colours of their trade, their daggersUnmannerly breech’d with gore: who could refrain,That had a heart to love, and in that heartCourage to make ’s love known?
Read the passage from act 2, scene 3 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.[Porter.] Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery; it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.
Read the passage from act 2, scene 3 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.[Macbeth.] Here lay Duncan,His silver skin lac’d with his golden blood;And his gash’d stabs look’d like a breach in natureFor ruin’s wasteful entrance: there, the murderers,Steep’d in the colours of their trade, their daggersUnmannerly breech’d with gore: who could refrain,That had a heart to love, and in that heartCourage to make ’s love known?
Read the passage from act 2, scene 4 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Ross. Will you to Scone?Macduff. No, cousin, I’ll to Fife.Ross. Well, I will thither.Macduff. Well, may you see things well done there: adieu!Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!
Read the passage from act 2, scene 4 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Ross. And Duncan’s horses,—a thing most strange and certain,—Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,Turn’d wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out,Contending ’gainst obedience, as they wouldMake war with mankind.
Milo is drafting an essay about The Tragedy of Macbeth. He wants to use a rhetorical device to analyze ambition’s role in the play. Which option would be the most effective?
Read the passage from act 3, scene 1 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Macbeth. I did so; and went further, which is nowOur point of second meeting. Do you findYour patience so predominant in your natureThat you can let this go? Are you so gospell’dTo pray for this good man and for his issue,Whose heavy hand hath bow’d you to the graveAnd beggar’d yours for ever?
Read the passage from act 3, scene 1 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Macbeth. Upon my head they plac’d a fruitless crown,And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,Thence to be wrench’d with an unlineal hand,No son of mine succeeding. If ’t be so,For Banquo’s issue have I fil’d my mind;For them the gracious Duncan have I murder’d;Put rancours in the vessel of my peaceOnly for them; and mine eternal jewelGiven to the common enemy of man,To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!
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