The Once And Future King by Bloc Party

Well I guess This will be dismissed As bitterness And sour grapes Champion garage band With too much time with my own thoughts It should be my name on their lips But it's not And I will wait For my turn to come round again And I will wait However long it takes However long it takes See you're gonna Be the next big thing All the young girls You could ever want I heard your song on the radio Like a fire-brand on my skin So the war has begun A pox on your houses And I will wait For my turn to come round again And I will wait However long it takes However long it takes I say round of applause I say round of applause (You're making all the noises whenever he wants) I say round of applause I say round of applause (Objection, overruled)Passive yet aggressive Drunk on schadenfreude uccess has been cruel to me My time will come again And I will wait For my turn to come round again And I will wait

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Second Apparition:
Be bloody, bold, and resolute! Laugh to scorn
The pow'r of man, for none of woman born
Shall harm Macbeth.
4.1.79-81

Third Apparition:
Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care
Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are:
Macbeth shall never vanquished be until
Great Birnam Wood to Dunsinane Hill
Shall come against him.
4.1.90-93

Macbeth:
Bring it after me.
I will not be afraid of death and bane
Till Birnam Forest come to Dunsinane.
5.4.58-60

From what the apparitions have told him, Macbeth's state of mind is now this: I'm invincible. He thinks that no one can kill him and that he has nothing to worry about. Macduff's army has disguised themselves with branches from Birnam Forest as they advance up the hill giving the illusion like the forest is moving closer to the hill as the apparition said could happen. Macduff and Macbeth fight one another when they meet finally and Macbeth is killed, Macduff was born through a c-section, not "woman born" as the apparition had said. Macbeth was too overconfident in himself in thinking that he was invincible and that nothing bad could possibly happen. This turned out to be his greatest flaw that lead to his demise.

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Macbeth:
Your spirits shine through you. Within this hour at most
I will advise you where to pant yourselves,
Acquaint you with the perfect spy o' th' time,
The moment on 't; for 't must be done tonight,
And something from the palace; always thought
That I require a clearness: and with him-
To leave no rubs nor botches in the work-
Fleance his son, that keeps him company,
Whose absence is no less material to me
Than is his father's, must embrace the fate
Of the dark. Resolve yourselves apart:
I'll come to you anon.
3.2.128-139

Macbeth realizes that Banquo is the one that was there with him and knows the prophecies. Basically, Banquo knew too much and Macbeth wanted him killed. He hires three murderers to kill Banquo as well as his son, Fleance, but Fleance escapes. Macbeth is starting to feel paranoid by the witches' prophecies and takes as many precautions as he can including killing whoever is a threat to his life. To become king he murdered Duncan in the night with a well thought out plan with Lady Macbeth, he feels terrible guilt throughout the play. Now to insure his safety he takes to drastic measures.

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Macbeth:
Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more:
By Sinel's death I know I am Thane of Glamis;
But how of Cawdor? The Thane of Cawdor lives,
A prosperous gentlemen; and to be king
Stands not within the prospect of belief,
No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence
You owe this strange intelligence? Or why
Upon this blasted heath you stop our way
With such prophetic greeting? Speak I charge you.
1.3.71-79

This is right after the three witches have explained that he will be Thane of Cawdor and king. Upon first hearing these predictions he thinks it to be preposterous that this would happen and is very modest claiming he would never be king. In the beginning of the play he contemplates how being king would be great, but doesn't seem like a possibility. He doesn't believe the witches at first and it takes him a while to trust them until he sees some proof of their prophecy. He has been granted a great title by the king and is content with that, for now.

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