 Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair. And make my seated heart knock at my...  The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare - Page 274by William Shakespeare - 1824 - 830 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Harp, Stanley Stewart - Drama - 2000 - 238 pages
...it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my...Are less than horrible imaginings: My thought, whose murther yet is but fantastical. Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smother'd in surmise,... | |
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...Macbeth — is, however, more easy of analysis. The crucial speech runs as follows: Why do I yield to that suggestion, Whose horrid image doth unfix...smother'd in surmise, and nothing is But what is not. (i. iii. 134) These lines, spoken when Macbeth first feels the impending evil, expresses again all... | |
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...it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my...Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose murther yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, That function is smother'd in surmise,... | |
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...given me earnest of success, / Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor: / If good, why do I yield to that suggestion / Whose horrid image doth unfix...less than horrible imaginings. / My thought, whose murther yet is but fantastical, / Shakes so my single state of man / That function is smother'd in... | |
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...143-44) — but he doesn't do so, nor does he ask what he should do. Instead, he says, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my...Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose murther yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smother'd in surmise... | |
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...Thane of Cawdor. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, 135 And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against...fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function 140 Is smothered in surmise, and nothing is Look how our partner's rapt. 142 rapt also used of Macbeth... | |
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...it given me earnest of success Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my...Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smothered in surmise, and nothing is But what is not. (1.3.129-41) Not the sisters nor Ross's report... | |
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...it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my...smother'd in surmise, and nothing is But what is not. [1.3.130-142] "My single state of man" plays upon several meanings of "single": unitary, isolated,... | |
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...given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor. If good? [ ] why do I yield to that suggestion, Whose horrid image doth unfix...smother'd in surmise, and nothing is, But what is not. For an instant he sways between 'ill?' and 'good?', unable to choose or to reject, and then he is falling... | |
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...becomes part of Macbeth's and the audience's dramatic understanding of his journey: Why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my...Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smothered in surmise, nothing is But what is not. (1.3. 133-41) These are difficult words which might... | |
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