PLEASE HELP ME ( I NEED AN OVERVIEW LIKE AN INTRODUCTION AND TWO PARAGRAPHS) Macbeth

Read the following extract from Act 1 Scene 3 of Macbeth and then answer the question that follows.

At this point in the play Macbeth is discussing the moral implications of the Witches’ predictions.
[Aside] Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme.--I thank you, gentlemen. 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 the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings: My thought, whose murder 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.

Starting with this extract, explain how Shakespeare presents Macbeth.

Write about:

· How Shakespeare presents Macbeth in this speech

· How Shakespeare presents Macbeth in the play as a whole