 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 ribs, Against...  Macbeth: A Tragedy in Five Acts - Page 11by William Shakespeare - 1847 - 60 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Arthur F. Kinney - Meaning (Philosophy) in literature - 2004 - 196 pages
...progress is similar, except that he is aware of the disjunction between the world's time and his own. Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. My...smothered in surmise, and nothing is But what is not. (1.3.136-41) Having committed regicide in time, he cannot get himself out of time again: "Had I but... | |
 | Peter Holland - Drama - 2004 - 380 pages
...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...heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature? (1.3.126-36) As Thane of Cawdor he prepares for the kingship as James, in his Basilicon Doron, argued:... | |
 | Piotr Sadowski - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 336 pages
...under his wife's influence. The terrible possibility first enters Macbeth' s consciousness only as a suggestion, Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair,...Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose murther is yet but fantastical, Shakes to my single state of man, That function is smother'd in surmise,... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 460 pages
...in a tortured soliloquy, Macbeth reveals that he is deeply baffled by his own murderous fantasies: My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes...smothered in surmise, and nothing is But what is not. (1.3.138-41) At the center of the familiar and conventional motive there is a dark hole — "nothing... | |
 | Bernice W. Kliman - Drama - 2004 - 260 pages
...Present fears Are less than [hesitates] horrible imaginings. My thought, whose [hesitates] murther yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, That function is smother 'd in surmise, And nothing is, but what is not. (I.iii.137— 42) But Williamson's Macbeth... | |
 | Laurie Maguire - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 260 pages
...The common denominator of these three parts is fear. Thinking about Duncan's murder causes fear: it "doth unfix my hair / And make my seated heart knock at my ribs" (1.3.135-6). Murdering Duncan causes fear: "I am afraid to think what I have done; / Look on't again... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...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...smothered in surmise, and nothing is But what is not. BANQUO Look how our partner's rapt. MACBETH If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,... | |
 | Niels Bugge Hansen, Søs Haugaard - Drama - 2005 - 170 pages
...externalised emotion becomes part of Macbeth's and the audience's dramatic understanding of his journey: Why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image...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 leave the audience... | |
 | 2005 - 68 pages
...success. Commencing in a truth? l am Thane of Cawdor. lf good, why do l yield to that suggestion 135 Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my...imaginings. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical. 140 Shakes so my single state of man, That function is smother'd in surmise, And nothing is, but what... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 340 pages
...his mind until it is too big for its place, and his heart beats as if it were choking in its chamber. Why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image...Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. My thoughts, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smother'd... | |
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