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[Anonymous No.14097786]

Summarise MacBeth as well as you can in two paragraphs only

[Anonymous No.14097820]

A scottish man gets told that he will be king of scotland by three witches. This feeds into his ambition that he had been supressing all his life and he losses himself to his base desires. He murders the king to take the crown while also lamenting about what he did. He projects his guilt onto his best friend and murders him too. The weight of all he has done starts to come down on him and he goes absolutely ballistic during court. All the nobles lose respect for him, and start planning a rebellion.

The scottish man greatly disturbed and paranoid seeks out the witches again, they tell him false prophecies to appease his fears. With this the man throws caution to the wind and publically orders to have the entire family of a rebel lord slaughtered. The rebels comes back and marches on his castle. His wife kills herself, causing the man to throw away the last bit of humanity he has left. The rebels slaughter his army and the man relises that all the prophecies were lies. He dies a spiteful, bitter thing

[Anonymous No.14097827]

>>14097820
You didn't include how much his wife goaded him into it, nor how he died

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14097841]

Over her second cup of tea my companion began to tell the plot of a detective story that had fooled her completely - it seems it was the old family doctor all the time. But I cut in on her.. "Tell me," I said. "Did you read 'Macbeth'?" "I had to read. it" she said, “There wasn't a scrap of anything else to read in the whole room." "Did you like it?" I asked. "No, I did not,” she said, decisively. "In the first place, I don't think for a moment that Macbeth did it." I looked at her blankly. "Did what?" I asked. "1 don't think for a moment that he killed the King," she said. "I don't think the Macbeth woman was mixed up in it, either. You suspect them the most, of course, but those are the ones that are never guilty or shouldn't be, anyway.” “I’m afraid," I began, "that I ---“. “But don't you see?" said the American lady. “It would spoil everything if you could figure out right away who did it.. Shakespeare was far too smart for that. I’ve read that people never have figured out 'Hamlet,' so it isn't likely Shakespeare would have made 'Macbeth' as simple as it seems." I thought this over while I filled my pipe. "Who do you suspect?" I asked, suddenly. "Macduff," she said, promptly. "Good God!" I whispered, softly.

"Oh Macduff did it, all right," said the murder specialist. "Hercule Poirot would have got him easily." "How did you figure it out?" I demanded. "Well," she said, "I didn't right away. At first I suspected Banquo. And then of course, he was the second person killed. That was good right in there, that part. The person you suspect of the first murder should always be the second victim." "Is that so?" I murmured. "Oh, yes," said my informant. "They have to keep surprising you. Well, after the second murder I didn't know who the killer was for a while." "How about Malcolm, and Donalbain, the King's sons?" I asked. "As I remember it, they fled right after the first murder. That looks suspicious." “Too suspicious," said the American lady. "Much too suspicious. When they flee, they're never guilty. You can count on that" "I believe," I said, "I'll have a brandy," and I summoned the waiter. My companion leaned toward me, her eyes bright, her teacup quivering. "Do yon know who discovered Duncan's body?" she demanded. I said I was sorry, but I had forgotten. "Macduff discovers it," she said, slipping into the historical present. Then he comes running downstairs and shouts, 'Confusion has broke open the Lord's anointed temple' and 'Sacrilegious murder has made his masterpiece' and on and on like that" The good lady tapped mc on the knee. "All that stuff was rehearsed," she said. "You wouldn't say a lot of stuff like that, offhand, would you - if you had found a body?" She fixed me with a glittering eye. "I-" I began. "You're right!" she said. 'You wouldn't! Unless you had practiced it in advance. 'My God, there's a body in here!' is what an innocent man would say." She sat back with a confident glare.

[Anonymous No.14097850]

>>14097841
That qas fuckimg bad

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14097855]

>>14097850
No sense of humor

[Anonymous No.14097865]

>>14097786
Summerise your homework as well as you can in one sentence only

[Anonymous No.14097882]

>>14097855
Notice how I purppusefully put speling errors in my response? If your posting actual pross do a grammer check before you post faggot

[Anonymous No.14097887]

>>14097855
Also your satire was basic ass shit, add more layers of irony next time

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14097889]

>>14097882
What did you want me to grammar check?

[Anonymous No.14097890]

>>14097786
The king must be killed, so I'll do it. And now the king is dead, so I'll do that too.

And now the king must die. And so I did that too.

[Anonymous No.14097906]

>>14097889
Your fucking prose passage numb nuts
Posting shit like
>I had to read. it
>1 don't think for a moment that he killed the King
Is completely fucking unacceptable, a single skim would fix this shit
Put some fucking effort in if you effort post

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14097923]

>>14097906
It’s Thurber.
The mistakes aren’t mine.
http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/anthro/jbeatty/COURSES/Macbeth/thurber.htm

[Anonymous No.14097940]

>>14097923
>Thread about writing your own shit
>plagiarize instead of writing your own shit
>can't be bothered to fix errors from the original source
>use plagiarism to defend yourself for not fixing errors
>can't even be bothered to plagiarize something good
How are you finding new ways to be a gigantic faggot

[Anonymous No.14098088]

>>14097940
Holy shit mothnigger BTFO hard

[Anonymous No.14098096]

>>14097820
I read Macbeth a while ago; I dont remember and false prophesies, what were they?

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14098159]

>>14098088
>>14097940
No sense of humor