Macbeth" being a man" blogging assignment

Macbeth “being a man” blogging assignment

By: Michael Boarman

English 10: Guys 4^th hour

12/12/10

My first quote is on act 4 scene 3 lines 252 through 254. “Malcolm: Let’s make us medicines of our great revenge to cure this deadly grief. In this quote Macduff’s family has been savagely slaughtered and Malcolm tells Macduff to take it like a man and turn the sorrow into rage and anger towards Macbeth so that he will fight better.

My second quote is on act 5 scene 3 lines 38 through 40. “Macbeth: I’ll fight from my bones my flesh be hacked. Give me my armor.

Seyton: Tis not needed...” In this quote Macbeth knows he needed to fight his enemy like a man and do what a king and a man must do for his country. He is told not to, but he knows if he doesn’t he would be thought of as a coward and not a man.

My third quote is on act 5 scene 3 lines 19 through 20. “ Macbeth: Those linen cheeks of thine are counselors to fear”. In this quote the servant tells Macbeth of how many soldiers there are and that he should just give up, but Macbeth knows that the servant is a coward and a fool to try and give up so he knows that he must fight Malcolm and Macduff.

My fourth quote is on act 5 scene 5 lines 18 through 19. “Macbeth:  Wherefore was that cry?

Sayton: The Queen my lord, is dead

Macbeth: She should have died hereafter.”

In this quote Macbeth finds out that his beloved wife is dead, but he knows that to be a man you must take the sorrows out of life and turn them into anger which u can then use against your opponent.

My fifth and last quote describing how to be a man in the world of Macbeth is on act 5 scene 7 lines 1 through 4. “Macbeth: They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly, but, bear-like, I must fight the course. What’s he that was not born of woman? Such one am I to fear, or none.” In this quote Macbeth is surrounded in a tower and his enemies are all around him. He knows that a man would fight to the death and a coward would give up, so Macbeth fights the intruders like a man would.

Overall I believe that the quotes I have just stated really give a example for “being a man” in the life of Macbeth.