hi everyone welcome to Shakespeare's soliloquies Macbeth Soliloquy number five act three scene one to be thus is nothing but to be safely thus what I do in the series is I first provide context for the soliloquy then we do a quick comprehension check to make sure you understand the content and then we do a deep analysis of the text to identify important aspects of character theme and plot if you find these videos useful please like And subscribe and if you make a donation you'll get a complete set of the PDFs I use in this series see the description for details at the beginning of act 3 scene 1 Shakespeare sets up our anticipation for the great banquet scene where Macbeth goes completely off the rail so he has Macbeth announced the evening feast and announced that Banquo is the guest of honor but banquet says that he must ride out that afternoon and he will return late but he won't miss the feast now Macbeth just before uh banquil goes to leave right here in this 1979 version of Ian McKell and Judy Dench go back and watch it I've talked about it many times Macbeth asks uh Banquo does fleons go out riding with you of course the Tyrant wants to get rid of the father and the son of course we're going to talk about that today that the The Tyranny and the paranoia and the slippery slope of tyranny that's one of the themes we're going to talk about today so Macbeth then dismisses everyone including Lady Macbeth and he's all alone and then he summons his goon squads which is a pre-war requisite for every every Tyrant must have one of those okay so comprehension check quickly to be king is nothing unless I'm safely King so there's the paranoia of the Tyrant that we've talked about we're going to analyze that a bit more today so he's he's starting to feel the pressures he's killed someone he stabbed someone in the back to get to the top so he's he's ready for this the stab to come in his turn so our fears and banquil stick deep so I'm afraid of him and that fear is like a thorn in my side it makes me uneasy I can't I can't rest easy and in banquo's royalty of nature so Bank was got a royal nature he recognized that the bank was a good guy a better guy than Macbeth which is what we're going to talk about today in in banquo's royalty of nature it Reigns that which must be fear so there's something in him that must be feared now what is what is it that must be feared something tyrannical in bangkok's nature no not at all something Royal this it is much he dares which means he's Brave he dares to do a lot but to that bravery of his mind he has a wisdom and we've talked about another in other videos in this series this guy doesn't end Lady Macbeth neither of them have the wisdom that Banquo has but banquil has both the courage and the wisdom that does doth guide his honor do you see what I mean so it's not just courage it's wisdom together with courage that will make him that will that will that will help him act safely and wisely DC there is none but he whose being I do fear okay so that that's he's uh Banco is his number one uh uh number one fear at the moment once he gets rid of Banco of course there's another guy that comes up and it's McDuff uh and and Malcolm and everybody else DC so that's the slippery slope of tyranny uh but this is important too there's none but he now I'm going to talk about the brother murder the Cain and Abel story today and and and that's really important in in banquil Macbeth sees his better half and we're going to talk about that today so and under him my genius is rebuked as it is said Mark Anthony's was by Caesar now this is actually kind of interesting this is an old-fashioned way to use the word genius and it means a personal Guardian Spirit a Daemon or an A an angel or demon or an angel that is your your kind of your guardian Spirit Your Guardian uh uh um Fairy Godmother I suppose in in another context but they did believe that we had these kinds of spirits either good or evil DC and so what he's saying here is that that that banquo's genius Bank woes Spirit do you see his character his deep spiritual character uh rebukes Macbeth's so he sees him already we're doing a bit of analysis now but he sees banquil already as a better having a better Spirit than himself and he can't stand and that and so he he there's an allusion here to the story of Anthony and Cleopatra and Caesar there was a love triangle here and Mark Anthony was was was uh bested uh in competition for the crown of Rome and for the love of Cleopatra by a guy by Caesar DC so Macbeth sees himself in these terms as as the Caesar who is is sorry as the Marc Anthony who is going to be bested by Caesar so pretty pretty Epic uh so bank will chid the sister so now he's thinking okay he's he's getting into into banquo's character here and he remembers he asked the sisters when they first put the name of King upon me and bade them speak to him okay so now he's remembering what bank was said when I was talking to the witches and witches said good things about me the bank will immediately said well what about me what about me and fair enough you know Banquo did display some of his uh his own devious Ambitions there as well but uh Macbeth is remembering that and thinking uh oh Banquo is as ambitious as I am then Prophet like the witches hailed him father to a line of Kings okay so that's that's that's that's pretty straightforward here but this line of King things is what we're going to analyze today because it has to do with the manhood theme which is the dominant theme upon my head The Witches placed a fruitless Crown so upon my head they gave me a crown but they didn't give me any children to come after that Crown they didn't give me any successors to the crown because I have no foul I have no kids do you see and they put a Barren scepter in my grip so this is the scepter the scepter is one of the symbols of of uh of a kingship or of a kingdom of a monarchy DC and so in my hand they placed an empty scepter in my grip then to be wrenched by an unlineal hand so I will be king but that scepter will be taken away from me by someone who is not my Offspring DC and that's the manhood theme which we're going to talk about so no son of mine will be succeeding that's what the witches said and then he goes on and he says well what are the implications of that if that's the truth if my sons and daughters won't be kings and queens for Bank woes sons and daughters have I defiled my mind I've destroyed my character I've ripped out my own soul for who not for me and my family and Lady Macbeth's family but for Banquo for banquo's children I have killed good Duncan he loves Duncan he loved Duncan and he murdered him for them for Bank was children I have put rankers in the vessels of my peace I have poisoned my peace the vessel in the brain Soul at peace he's poisoned that DC only for them for banquil's kids have my eternal jewel is my soul so I've given my soul to the common enemy of man which is Satan the devil and we've talked about that before the alignment with Satan is exactly what he says I've I've given up my soul to the devil to make banquois kids Kings the seed of banquil Kings go back and watch this video he just spits that out he can't stand the thought okay so if that is the case then rather than so come faith into the list now what this means is this uh it says the list is for the tournament so he says come on fate enter the tournament I will joust with you you see it's an old medieval image come on fate into the list put your name on the list of competitors I will joust with you and I will Champion you to the utterance to the absolute ends of the of Doomsday I will fight against fate so again a very very uh tyrannical thing to say and then the murderers enter who's there all right good now let's get into the analysis as we've mentioned uh this this little bit of the speech reveals Macbeth's deep respect ironically for banquil for his better he recognizes that banquet is the better man and if you go back and watch my character videos and theme videos I talk about the brother murder and banquet as the as as the better half of of Macbeth's own psyche do you see what I'm saying and Macbeth recognizes that and sees that as a judge and that's one reason why he has to get rid of it that's why he's afraid of it he's afraid of it because he sees the eyes of Banquo judging him so banquet is the character foil and his nobility contrasts with Macbeth's baseness DC uh that's where you get the brother murder that's where you get the resentment and the brother murder theme so unlike Macbeth banquil has a strong moral sense okay uh no no sorry Macbeth does have a strong moral sense as I've argued a thousand times the difference is they both have a strong moral sense but the difference is is that Banquo is banquo's moral sense is not overwritten by crude selfishness crude selfish impulses and by edible fears and insecurities he is the better part of Macbeth's psyche genius spirit and character DC so Macbeth's problem is is that he they both have the same ambitions he'd hit the sisters we see that we're going to see that coming up here as well banquet did ask the sisters what about me can I can I be king can my sons be king will that happen to me so he is a human being but he's got the strength of character the royalty of Nature and the wisdom that Macbeth doesn't have to to temper that ambition to temper his courage to see his Valor so one of the themes that's developed here of course I've talked about in my other videos as well is the origins of evil where does evil come from and I believe I'm a firm believer that Shakespeare is saying in this play that evil comes from what we've just talked about real or perceived humiliations resentment that comes from that humiliation uh Macbeth is is a weaker man he's being bullied by his wife he's insecure in his manhood in on on in many many dimensions on many dimensions and that humiliation resentment causes a need for revenge and an elimination of the judge that humiliates him including his own self so I've argued before that Banco is uh uh he meets him when he meets banquil he's meeting himself and his better self Banquo is giving him the message dude you shouldn't be doing this you shouldn't be doing this you shouldn't be doing this and so Macbeth asked why where does evil come from why does Macbeth have to do it despite what his better half says it's because of his insecurity and his his need to prove himself a big strong man see what I'm saying that's resentment and it comes from humiliation and it's not only in in the in in this way that that Shakespeare develops it that's developed uh in in in through the witches and through the murderers as well go back and watch my theme video I talk about that okay so as we from as we've mentioned uh there is the brother murder theme being introduced here uh resentment Envy a confrontation with with the self as I've just mentioned a rebuke from the better part of himself leads to a desire to eradicate the figure of judgment that's the Cain and Abel story from the Bible uh Kane was resentful of Abel's a better performance in the eyes of God DC and so what does Cain do kill the brother get rid of it it's easier to destroy the ideal than to actually try to live up to it now we see this elsewhere as well now as soon it's really really interesting here that as soon as every time every single time that I think that's true every single time the bank that Macbeth encounters Banquo he has some kind of panic attack or he goes off the rails in some way so we see him here he encounters he encounters uh Banquo in this particular scene you see the early in the scene and he's thinking about killing him already and as soon as he encounters him he has these evil thoughts do you see and later on when he encounters uh when he encounters Bank well he actually no earlier on when he encounters Banquo uh uh his better self he has the panic attack is this a dagger I see before me that's when he has the dagger uh the the dagger um uh uh Soliloquy panic attack when you encounter yourself and your and you've and you're going against your own true name future your nervous system gives you signals that you shouldn't be doing something so yes so this confrontation induces panic attack so look at this and we see some more evidence of this thesis here when Banquo has been killed and they do have the banquet the big Feast scene the ghost of bank will comes back as you're probably aware because you should have watched the video over this already the ghost to banquil comes back and what Macbeth say he says oh go away go away you were dead thou Hast no speculation in those eyes your eyes are dead that should be shut which thou Dost glare with do you see so you see the glare and the eyes that's the Judgment that's the figure of judgment that that the brother murderer failed to eradicate because it's not something external to the self that that resentment and that that feeling of judgment is coming internally from Shakespeare from Macbeth because Macbeth knows that he's done wrong okay so let's move on to section number two he cheated the sisters when first they put the name of King upon me and bade them speak to him then profit like they held him live father to a line of Kings okay so a couple of things to unpack here we've already touched on a few of them uh first of all we see again uh Banquo he's Noble yet human Okay so he he he was tempted by the witches fair enough that's the test that Shakespeare gave these two characters that's what fiction very often does if not always does is you take a situation and you plunk into that situation character a and you see how they behave it's an experiment then you plunk character B into the same situation and see how that character behaves and by judging the the performance of both you get a good picture of of of the kinds of human beings we all are we've all got a bit of banquil in us and we probably all have a bit of a Macbeth in us as well DC so that's what's Happening Here sure fair enough banquet is tested but he passes the test because he's got more strength of character he doesn't have those weaknesses he probably doesn't have a a a wife that is constantly challenging his manhood those kinds of things so uh yes he isn't perfect but he possesses strength of character he is tempted by the wishes witches but he's able to resist so he is tempted he bathe and speak you know he cheated the sisters you know that's that's that's not nothing um we can also uh we can also pull out of this uh the manicism the the Dual nature of reality the Dual nature of the cosmos is divided into good and evil light and dark and the great chain of being now I see that in the word Prophet like and again I may be overthinking this but I don't think so because if you follow the motifs the motifs are these patterns that are repeated again and again and again uh you see there there are there are echoes of the of of Holiness of spirituality dark and light spirituality Unholy alliances Unholy rituals satanic dark black masses that Lady Macbeth undergoes do you see or she calls upon come you spirits that tend on Mortal Thoughts come evil spirits it's it's a very ritualistic play and here we again here we go again with the repetition of that Motif in the word Prophet so an Unholy alignment realignment with the satanic uh Powers uh and those are the prophets and of course the witches are indeed prophets they are millions of of Satan they're satanic they're satanic figures of course they are okay so you can you can bring in that again and again I've talked about the great chain of B and I explained that my theme video that's where God is the source of all good and Grace in the universe and the king is the conduit through which that Grace enters the universe and if you kill the king you sever the connection with good and that creates the Wasteland wonderful theme that I probably am beating to death but it's so cool I can't stop beating it to death all right this may you may think this is a bit of a stretch but let me just put run this behind you and see what you think uh love as a weapon again I've talked about that in uh in my theme video that's definitely the case Lady Macbeth is using love as a weapon for sure but how do we see it here I see it here in in the way that we have to answer the question the origins of evil with another great theme where does evil come from and it comes from a partly from it comes from Macbeth let's let's be straight about this it comes from Macbeth's own weaknesses his terrible terrible character flaws but it's exacerbated tremendously by his bad choice of wife who uses it's an edible situation it's a corrupt edible situation Macbeth craves the love of his mother figure Lady Macbeth and I've talked about this in the other video and so she knows that and she's as cruel as Macbeth ends up being and she she uses that to her own uh to her own benefit uh so lady Macbeth's Shadow rebuke stalks Macbeth always in the back of this play in the back of Macbeth's mind in the back of of of everything that happens in this play we hear the voice of Lady Macbeth saying you're not a man you're not a man if you were a man you'd do it if you were a man you'd do it you're not a man we see that constantly now that's both the voice of Lady Macbeth sure she's a horrible wife but it's more importantly the the voice of Macbeth himself it doesn't matter if he married somebody else he would go through his entire life aching to prove himself a worthy of of the love of someone probably because he didn't get enough love when he was a kid that's my thesis go back and watch my theme video uh okay so that emotional blackmail challenges the challenges to Macbeth's manhood make Macbeth desperate to prove himself to Lady Macbeth and so we see it here DC he's he immediately thinks about taking out all of his competition taking out all of the people who who he perceives as being better than him as having better relationships as having children DC uh so and the Mark Anthony Caesar rivalry uh it also involved love and as well as power and so there's the big question here of who's the better man and again ringing in the back of his mind it's like Bank was not the better man Bank was not there I'm as good as Bank well lady my wife my dear wife don't worry I'm as good as Bank well I'm better than bank or do you see what I mean so it may be a bit of a stretch to pull that out of this but but the the way his thinking his thinking he immediately jumps from A to B when he thinks about mcbank and when he thinks about banquo's Behavior he's got this as an impetus as an invisible hand pushing him forward to think certain things and then ultimately to act in a certain way it's really pretty tragic and really complex anyway we see the thinking of the the Tyrant here and the paranoia of the Tyrant of course the Tyrant knows what's waiting for him uh and and the next overly ambitious Thug is coming up the ranks to to to stab the tyrant in the back because that's how the game is played it's the slippery slope of murders to present prevent his own murder and that's exactly what's happening here that's how what Tyron thinks look in the world today today and in history full of it that's exactly how attire and thinks Hmm this guy he's smart he's smart everybody likes him he's a threat I gotta get rid of him do you see that's exactly what tyrants think and it's playing out in the world today ladies and gentlemen 2022 uh we see what we expect to see now this is a really cool theme too that I've explored quite a bit in all of my videos uh almost all of my videos because Shakespeare Shakespeare explores this so much DC it's the projection Macbeth is projecting his own corruption and insecurity on to Banquo these are the basically the thoughts that Macbeth has which is tell me I'm ambitious tell me what I want to hear I'm going to become king right good thank you now he sees Banco asking the same question to the witches and he can't even fathom the notion that banquil might be just curious which is what banquil is yeah ambitious but also like I wonder what they have to say about me Macbeth can't fathom that because inside him he has this over overweening ambition that corruption in him and so when he looks at Banquo asking the same question saying oh Bank was thinking the same thing as me Bank was thinking that I'm going to kill everybody to come become the king to have my sons become king DC what I'm saying so there's the projection there's that we see what we expect to see what we what is in US is what we see in other people okay so that's section two now this is a continuation of course section three okay as you can see just by looking at the bold faced words here is that the dominant theme in this section is the manhood theme they placed upon my upon my head a fruitless Crown that's a reference to childlessness Baron means empty and and and sterile like like a woman's womb who can't have a child or a man's life who doesn't have any children after them unlinial it doesn't follow in the line it's not my son or my daughter no son of mine for banco's issue that's The Offspring for them Bank was issue Bank was issue Bank was issue the C do you see how grotesque that is almost and the way Ian McKellen spits that out the seed of panquel Kings you just can't stand it to DC so absolutely this is the manhood theme the humiliated and the humiliation comes from the childlessness now remember uh this this was you know thousands of years ago well a thousand years ago I guess in terms of the Scottish history but you know 400 years ago in terms of Shakespearean history uh and the having children was important King Henry VII you know it's not not too long before Shakespeare's age he you know went through six different wives and murdered half of them DC because he didn't he needed a son it was a big deal it was a big part of of what it meant to be a man is to have sons especially but at the very minimum to have daughters do you see so that's humiliation the childlessness that insecurity insecure men commit Horrors to prove that they're men DC I am a real man uh the inner feelings of worthlessness are often the cause of Cruelty Revenge desire to prove worth now we just said that about men what about women uh sorry Lady Macbeth is a parallel character as I've said watch it go watch the go read it again go watch a good movie and you'll see that their absolute parallel characters different slightly different trajectories they start in different places but they their behavior and their attitudes are the same they're male female versions of the same character and this speech also explains her cruel huberistic ambition now this video this this is this is the 2022 Apple TV version of Macbeth and it's it's not bad it's got some flaws in it I think but it's actually pretty good and this is one thing that I've never seen before this is the famous Soliloquy uh a kind of soliloquy uh the the sleepwalking scene where Lady Macbeth is saying out damn spot where she's feeling the guilt in her her dream state is uh is revealing her her deepest secrets and here we hear the director and the actor probably collaborated to to choose how to do this and they chose to have her seen the blood spot turning it around and her as her she's cradling her her dead child to see and it's it's quite heartbreaking and I think it makes a lot of logical sense so what does what what am I trying to say here I'm trying to say that yes men do horrible things to to to prove that they're worthy uh but go watch Game of Thrones and you'll see women do horrible things in the same way do you see so they're parallel characters and again this is where the sympathy this is where the strange in my theme video I talk about the question of redemption does their Agony redeem them as humans big big question go watch that video and you you come up with some answers because I really don't know anyway okay so definitely all of these images the repetition of this the the the the near the neurotic repetition of this do you see the cycle is it psychotic I don't know there's this obsessive obsessive focus on the issue the seed of banquet DC suggests that this is what is primarily motivating these guys this is the primary source of the humiliation in this instance I think for Macbeth it goes even deeper for later Macbeth we don't see much else uh that I might be wrong about that but we don't see many other aspects of her character that will reveal her insecurities except the motherhood thing perhaps anyway go have a look okay so what else is revealed here uh we can talk about the origins of evil as well uh which we've already pretty much hit on it it's where does it come from from humiliation resentment Envy the childlessness Banco has kids he's got a son not just a kid but a son which back in those days was more important therefore the need for Revenge the elimination of the judge my life is really really good I'm living a good life what are you doing with yours loser do you see where that comes from that's where all modern day hatred and and resentment and ill feeling comes from as well DC the need to eliminate the superior being the being that humiliates simply by existing I have to destroy the better model of me that exists so that I don't have to look at it all the time and I don't have it have to have it looking at me and judging me that's the brother the murder exactly the resentment that sense of Injustice that humiliation and that judgment calls forth a desire to destroy it all D.C you see that again and again we can also see in this uh Macbeth's moral awareness as well I I've argued that many many times he does understand the spiritual consequences that's what I get from this oh he this is lamentation this is ache this is a real real ache that I've given up my soul to the devil I've given my soul to the Satan and I don't like that feeling because I'm not that kind of guy he doesn't have the satanic Psychopathic arrogance that someone like Iago in uh in Othello has he's a perfect model of a psychopath no nervous system No Remorse he doesn't know he doesn't even have a soul quite literally quite a chemically biologically in his DNA there's something wrong with the with a psychopath's brain that they can't they don't have a soul that's another way to define it do you see and and and Milton in Paradise Lost uh John Milton's satanic figure as well they've just furiously yeah fine get my soul to whoever I'm just going to do what I have to do do you see what I'm saying because I'm me that's that's a psychopathic attitude to the world so we can see here Macbeth is not that kind of guy because he's weeping he's we here he's raging he's raging for the loss of his soul but he's inwardly weeping as well connected to that is the great chain of being Wasteland that we just talked about the destruction of the soul the realignment with a satanic forces and as I've said there's an Unholy ritualistic aspect to this whole play uh and and that and the ritual is required because they are on the side of light and good and God and they've got to make the transition to the side of darkness and that has to happen through some kind of initiation and that's what both later Macbeth and Macbeth go through and here is an acceptance a recognition of the fact that they have crossed that threshold which I talked about in my last video manichaism that's what we just talked about the division of the cosmos and and the psyche that's what it is it's the division of the psyche really when we talk about the cosmos in literature we're talking about the psyche really it's the same thing the the macro the macro level is the cosmos the Meso Level is the society and the micro level is the is the is the the the self do you see the psyche the dichotomy of Good and Evil yes so he is definitely he's been well here it is here this is this is from my theme video he's Macbeth the both of the Macbeth have crossed over from the side of good this reverence for this good King Duncan a god figure the great father figure good man what are you gonna do you're going to kill it while you've crossed over you've you've made a pact with the satanic forces okay and macduff says this as well in act four he says Macbeth has no hath no children he has no children DC so there's another restatement towards the end of the play of of a major motivating factor for the whole for the whole play for the whole of the action okay section four okay so what's the result what's the result of all that real and perceived humiliation the result of all that Penta presentment the the the result of that perceived judgment from the better self from the better brother figure the result of that is nihilism and tyranny and so Shakespeare uh Macbeth says at the end here rather than so rather than have banco's sons my betters better than having them you know Ascend the throne come on as I've mentioned come on fate into the listen Champion me to the utterance I will go as far as I have to go to prevent that you see to salvage my ego I will go as far as I have to go so there's the grand theme of tyranny not not the paranoia this isn't the paranoia that we're talking about this is the other part of it the other important part that I've talked about it's the tyrant's willingness to destroy the world to support their own ego as I've just mentioned avenge real and perceived humiliation now the real and perceived is important too because it's not it's very often well in Macbeth's case it's all in his own mind they're both valued right at the beginning of the play We the the Shakespeare held the two up as wonderful brother figures that everybody loves because they both together saved the kingdom and they have the honor and the Privileges and the rewards the material rewards from The Good King Duncan so it's all perceived in in Macbeth in Macbeth's case in other cases like the Joker I think there is real humiliation well obviously he's humiliated all the time but it's it's the nihilism of the Joker that movie is wonderful that's a Shakespearean movie go watch that and you compare it to Macbeth and you'll see uh uh psycho psycho psychopathy uh socio cycle sociopathy arrogance and narcissism that's what that's what tyranny is all about now as we've argued that Macbeth doesn't quite have these he does have he does have the arrogance he develops the arrogance and the narcissism I think but he doesn't have the sociopathy or the or the or the pathology Psychopathology that we've talked about um so the nihilism again is is absolutely dangerous if you cut yourself off from everything that is good if you cut off yourself from the in the great chain of being however you conceive of goodness if you cut yourself off from that you've cut yourself off from Love And if you do that then you're a nihilist and if you're nihilist then sure burn it all down because nothing means anything anyway if everything is meaningless why not burn it all down and that's exactly his statement right here and he says it again a few more times later on in the play as things come to uh the conclusion why not burn it all down if love doesn't exist if goodness doesn't exist uh we are the Agents of our own destruction of course Macbeth challenges fate that's the hubris calling forth Nemesis and he will of course uh uh meet his Nemesis and he will be destroyed by it is he destroyed by Nemesis or is he described by himself again I've argued many many places we are the Agents of our own destruction Shakespeare loves that theme the ship of Fool's theme we don't know ourselves in the in the biblical tradition they have uh Christ on the cross uh saying the same thing to God he says forgive them Father they know not what they do we know not what we do DC and Shakespeare says the same thing in play after play after play uh we do get uh here as well I like to bring up the point uh Shakespeare spends a lot of time in this play uh focusing on the definition of a good ruler the definition of a good man for that matter so a good man to be a good ruler requires to be a good man I suppose that that the the the mix of the male and the female strength and compassion as I've talked about many times so here we see a contrast with the good ruler uh in in the kingly virtues are laid out in in painstaking detail perhaps kind of boring for for young people but I find it really really interesting uh in in act four Scene Three uh virtue and and patience and all of these great kingly virtues well here we see none of the kingly virtues do you see it's the exact opposite of that so again Shakespeare's plays very often work in contrasts and parallels contrast in two different characters like Bank One Macbeth uh Duncan and Macbeth and and paralleling characters like Lady Macbeth and Macbeth that's how Shakespeare works there's a there's a doubleness to it and as we talked about here this is this is the quote that she says uh Lady Macbeth says I have given second know how how tender it is to love the babe that milks me so there's there's her source of tyranny her source of nihilism is that nothing matters anymore I lost my child and the heavens have have the heavens have crapped on me damn it so I will crap on the heavens that's nihilism man that's nihilism and it's really really sad okay so let's do a little bit of uh post Soliloquy context and wrap it up who's there Macbeth says ending his Soliloquy and the murderers enter and Macbeth reminds them of the of of the wrongs Banquo has done to both of them uh he's convincing these guys to uh to kill banquil I don't know why he has to convince them uh he's he's the king he should just say go murder them because they're because Bank was a threat to the state but he doesn't he spends a lot of time getting to know them not kind of not really but he spends a lot of time explaining himself to these thugs now if you're a real secure man and secure in your kingship you don't have to do that DC so that shows how weak he is go watch that scene as well there's a lot to be there's a lot to unpack in that scene as well so he challenges them to defend their manhood and of course that should sound familiar he he says to the murderers to try to convince them to kill somebody which they would readily do anyway and these guys in this particular production these murders are kind of confused about what Macbeth is saying he's like dude just tell us what to do we'll do it just pay us I don't care what we do but anyway he goes on and on and on and he he uses the same uh line of reasoning on these guys that Lady Macbeth uses on him now do you see how Sinister that is to see how she's infected she's infected this already in man already infected mind uh in Macbeth and already infected I mean in his insecurities uh yeah it's it's so it's so multi-layered so make Beth provides details of banquo's evening travel plans that flight fiance is going together with banquil and so they should they say yeah sure well we'll kill them we'll do the job just pay us so here's a little breakdown of the uh quickly of the scene banquet basically says are you going to let banquil get away with this Macbeth says are you gonna let banquil get away with this basically the same thing as Lady Macbeth says are you a man is basically what it is and he says yeah we are men my leash and he says yeah and the catalog you go for men just like there's lots of different kinds of men okay now what kind of station of manhood what kind of rank of manhood are you in do you see it's the voice of Lady Macbeth That's How Deeply she's gotten into this poor man's mind and these guys reply uh with an origins of evil answer they say we are so we've been so jerked around by the world that we'll do anything at all they both say the same thing we've been so jerked around by the world that we'll do anything to get revenge and there's the origins of evil Motif and again this comment perhaps can be applied equally to Lady Macbeth and Macbeth they're willing to do evil because they've been buffeted they've been they've suffered the vile blows and buffets of the world too they lost their kid they lost their kids I don't know what kind of childhood he has but I suspected it wasn't a very loving one too so humiliation humiliation leads to horrible Acts and that was Shakespeare soliloquies Macbeth Soliloquy number five act three scene one I hope you found it useful and if you did please like And subscribe and if you need to copy the PDFs please pick them up thanks for watching