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20275793 No.20275793 [Reply] [Original]

Why does Macbeth recognise the weather as both foul and fare?

>> No.20275795

>>20275793
because it is.

>> No.20275819

>>20275795
But what does that mean if not a contradiction and mixing of what is right and wrong? As the witches repeated it earlier to mean exactly that.

>> No.20276121

>>20275793
Because the witches (creatures of contradiction) have just finished their weather magic immediately previous.

>> No.20276146

>>20276121
So what does the description say about the weather?

>> No.20276157

>>20276146
SECOND WITCH
I’ll give thee a wind.
FIRST WITCH
Th’ art kind.
THIRD WITCH
And I another.
FIRST WITCH
I myself have all the other,
And the very ports they blow;
All the quarters that they know
I’ th’ shipman’s card.
I’ll drain him dry as hay.
Sleep shall neither night nor day
Hang upon his penthouse lid.
He shall live a man forbid.
Weary sev’nnights, nine times nine,
Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine.
Though his bark cannot be lost,
Yet it shall be tempest-tossed.

>> No.20276165

>>20275793
How did Macbeth get so much wrong about the situation he wrote about?

>> No.20276248

>>20275793
>both foul and fare
Fair.

It's foul because it's raining and cold and windy and stuff (i.e. normal Scottish weather).

It's fair because he's just won a battle.

>> No.20276292

>>20276157
This isn't really relevant to what 'fare' meant though.

>>20276248
>It's fair because he's just won a battle.
This seems to me a little too much explanation than is given. Do you not think he's talking about the specific scene before him?

>> No.20276387

>>20276292
The line is "So foul and fair a day I have not seen" which clearly can be interpreted as a comment on the weather.