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welcome back tows the mbth course now as
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far as mbth act one is concerned this is
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the concluding scene and this to my mind
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is the most important scene as far as
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meth is concerned in act one in act one
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scene 7 is the most important because it
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involves the two most important
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characters of the play magb and his five
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lady magb we'll do this in two parts so
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in this first explanation video we are
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seeing that this is once again inside
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meb's cast Castle okay
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um there are various servants who enter
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and then meth enters and he's inside the
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castle alone while King dunan and others
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are having their dinner okay so hot boys
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and obeys I mean these words which are
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used this is a musical instrument which
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is made of wood which you play by
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blowing through it so the scene starts
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with the soli by magb which gives an
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insight into his thought process what is
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going on in his mind is what we come to
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know through this particular scene if it
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were done when it is done then it were
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well it were done quickly so what he's
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saying is that if this work that is the
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work of killing Duncan were to be
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finished when it is done then it would
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be best to get over with it
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quickly so if it gets done as soon as
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possible it's always better that way
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okay so uh the irony is that the irony
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in these lines if if you get these lines
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and if you are asked to point out the
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irony of these lines the irony is that
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even when the deed is done that is when
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they killed dunan act 2 scene 2 when the
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king is done and they think that the
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deed is done everything is done we are
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all very happy the irony is that no the
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troubles only begin at that point in
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time they think everything is fine but
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no that is the mistake they are making
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that is the wrong impression the magets
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are under that everything is fine no so
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this line is pretty ironic because the
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magets face the consequences for what
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they have done now what they will be
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doing inside the castle in act to scene
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two now he says if the assassination and
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please note this word
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assassination could tramel up the
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consequence and catch with his
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sir K success okay that but this blow
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might be the be all and the end all here
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okay so what he's saying is that if the
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assassination of the king of Duncan
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could tramel up the consequence could
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catch like in a net you know like in a
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net you catch tramel means to catch like
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in a net catching all the consequence of
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the ACT okay all the consequence of the
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act and catch success by Duncan's death
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as a result of Duncan's death catch all
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the success which would come means to
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Seas means to to end to
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seize seize word you would know right
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there is one famous fire extinguisher no
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called Seas fire or Seas fire that is
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end I mean stopping of hosp is pressing
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the pause button right so the word sees
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is there so he's saying out here that if
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the assassination of the king could
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catch like in a net it catching all the
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consequen of the act and catch the
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success by Duncan's demise then the act
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of the murder then the act of the murder
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would be the Beall and the end all of
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the whole Affair then all this time I
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would do it and risk the afterlife right
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so uh basically what he's talking about
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his thoughts about the assassination you
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know what he what is his position Visa
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the VIS a the possibility of him killing
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king Duncan inside his castle okay so
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that's what he's talking about out here
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now the interesting part why I as said
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that Mark this word assassination now
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the word assassination was actually
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first used in the year 1600 in a
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pamphlet but in terms of popular usage
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it was then used by Shakespeare in this
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play in 1606 in mbth until today it is
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used okay so
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uh this bank and Sh of time this bank
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and Sh of time what does it mean it
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means that Shakespeare is referring to
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life time as some kind of a sandbank
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which would be covered by a sea of
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Eternity So it's talking in a very in a
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very philosophical kind of a sense so
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it's it will sound very vague because
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it's not like you know every word has a
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specific meaning or particular meaning
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convey but this particular lines these
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lines are definitely very important
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because as I said they contain a lot of
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irony okay uh
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jump means to
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risk jump means to risk that we would
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risk the life to come that is the
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afterlife okay but in these cases
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there's another point that I written
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that what magb is saying essentially is
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that if the murder okay the meaning of
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the passage if the murder could be
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committed without any after effects that
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you know nothing will happen to us then
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I would be glad to get done with it
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immediately you know as soon as possible
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let's get done with it
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if I could be sure of success at the end
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of committing the murder then it would
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be good because if the if the murder was
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done okay so basically it shows his
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contemplation whether it will lead me to
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success or whether it will lead me to
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failure so he's kind of vacillating
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should I or should I not so that kind of
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shows a
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certain trait of his personality that at
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one stage he's ambitious what lady mbth
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told about him that you know is full of
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you know the milk of humankindness that
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you know he's not he he's ambitious he
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wants to achieve something but he's not
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willing to make that effort to achieve
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that particular uh stage so that is
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always the trait as far as magb
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personality is concerned and this
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particular passage shows that and then
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he says but in these kind of crimes we
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still have judgment here so he says that
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but for crimes like this there are
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consequences like punishments out here
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that we but teach bloody instructions
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which being taught return to plague the
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inventor what he's saying out here is
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that we teach other people to commit
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Violence by committing violent acts
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ourselves and the violence of our
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students will come to torment us as
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teachers right inventor means teachers
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that we teach
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others you know go and cheat in the
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examination and then you do the cheating
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you do the bad practice and then it
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comes to haunt us as the teachers you
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know who are the ones who taught them to
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cheat so that's why very important to
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always teach everyone to do the right
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thing in life very important always and
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this is something of a life philosophy
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always do the right thing in life always
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better so
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that there are two things which I always
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believe when you look into the mirror
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you should be able to look at yourself
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in the mirror if you have a guilt
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conscience you will not be able to look
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at yourself in the mirror always have a
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clean conscience so that you can have a
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peaceful night's sleep right that's very
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important this is apart from whatever we
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are learning in me my own life
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philosophy okay now then he says justice
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being equal for everyone
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right this even-handed Justice
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even-handed Means equal for everyone
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Justice for poor person is the same as a
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Justice for the rich man right this
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even-handed Justice commments the
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ingredients of our poison chalice to our
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own lips so he says justice being equal
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to everyone forces commments means
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forces us to drink from the same cup the
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ingredient mean being The Poisoned uh
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chalice you know that be drink that is
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poisoned and gave to others chalice
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means cup uh The Poisoned cup so he says
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the Justice being equal for everyone
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forces us to drink from the same cup
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that we poisoned and gave to others that
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we poisoned Justice Ensure that you know
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what others drink is the same as we also
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get to drink so we also get poisoned in
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the bargain so he has made the talking
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about the student and the teacher and
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now he's talking about the poison and
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the Justice part that we would also get
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punished if we do something wrong um if
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we have tried to poison others we would
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also get poisoned in the bargain
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okay so what does it essentially show it
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shows that meth believes that he will
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always get punishment in our own life in
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this particular life
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itself you will have to pay for your
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sins in this particular life itself and
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if I were to murder Duncan someone would
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plan to murder me so if I kill him
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someone will try to kill me so I will
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bear the consequences I will be punished
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for what I have done so if I gave poison
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to Duncan someone would try to poison me
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the theory what I say of karma okay okay
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so that's what he's saying and then he
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says he's here in double trust he's here
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trusting me in two ways one because I am
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his Kinsman and his
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subject okay so he's saying that one uh
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I am is Kinsman Kinsman means that
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someone who is a blood relation and
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we've already spoken about them being
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cousins and both uh and the fact that
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he's a subject means you know he's the
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king I'm the praja Raja and praja right
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uh and both are good reasons for uh not
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committing the deed right both are
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strong against committing the deed then
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the second is also as his host who
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should be against his murderer shut the
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door not bear the knife myself as his
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host I should not be holding the knife I
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should be against the person who is
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holding the knife but here I am going to
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be the person who is thinking of holding
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the
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knife bearing the knife
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myself besides and he's giving so if you
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get a a question about what are the
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reasons what mbth sites in order to not
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kill Duncan these are the reasons
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specific reasons kin Kinsman subject
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host and he has been doubly good and
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then besides this Duncan had Bor his
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faculty so Meek had been so clear in his
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great office besides he says he has been
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such a humble person right leader Bears
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his faculty so me means he has been such
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a humble person he performed his duties
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very humbly he has been free from blame
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Yan there has been no allegations of
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corruption Etc against him he has been
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great in his great office um referring
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to his honesty and not uncorrupt nature
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that his virtues make him like angels
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will plead for him that you know don't
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kill him right and cry out like Trum
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trumpets against the Injustice deep Dam
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deep damnation of his murder taking off
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right so he says against his taking off
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that even angels will say that don't
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kill him because he's such a nice person
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he has been honest he has been not been
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corrupt and uh he has I mean this person
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is also now a host and he has been a
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very humble kind of a leader born his
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faculties so Meek so if you keep reading
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the text you will remember a lot of
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these key wordss which Shakespeare is
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using okay uh the Deep damnation of his
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murder taking off and pretty like a
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naked newborn babe striding the blast or
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Heaven's cherubin host upon the cycles
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criers of the air so he saying but pity
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like an innocent newborn baby will ride
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the wind like a uh winged angel so he's
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personifying pity you know that people
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will be pity for King dunan right or
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Heaven's cherubin one of the highest
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orders of angels angels be different
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orders cherubin are considered to be the
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highest order of angels and cherubin
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what they will do um Heaven's cherubin
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they will ride on invisible horses
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sightless criers of the air the inv ible
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horses through the air uh and will
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spread the news of the horrible deed
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everywhere they will go and tell
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everyone that meth has killed King
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Duncan right to every person's eye so
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that every person people will shed a
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flood of tears and this these tears will
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drown the wind like a heavy downpour of
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rain right they will drown the wind I
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have no spur to pick the sides of my
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intent but only walting ambition that
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ambition is something which I have which
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over leaps itself and falls on the other
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so he says that I cannot bring myself to
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act that I have to do this foul deed I
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have no spur spur is basically a piece
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of metal used by Riders on the boot to
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make the horse go faster you know they
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kick the sides of the horse to make it
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Gallop faster right so that's a piece of
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metal so basically to say that to make
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it happen quickly that I have no spur to
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make it happen quickly as my only desire
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is huge ambition that even lady magba
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said that you are an ambitious person
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that he is ambitious meth is ambitious
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but whether he has the the you know the
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fire in his belly to do what it takes in
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order to achieve that ambition which
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over leaps itself and falls on the other
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side so what this ambition is doing it's
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it's overleaping and it's falling on the
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other side so walting ambition is
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comparing himself to a rider who leaps a
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bit too quickly right and goes and falls
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on the other side so at that point in
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time is when lady mbth enters so we will
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pause explanation video number one out
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here in explanation video number two we
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will finish off the rest of the act one
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scene two scene 7 which as I said is
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important because of the dialogue which
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will now take place between magb and
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lady magb so see you now in explanation
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video number two of act one scene 7 I
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hope this particular passage which gives
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you an insight into mab's mind is clear
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thank you very much
