“The Prince of Cumberland: that is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap, for in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires, the eye wink at the hand. Yet let that be, which the eye fears when it is done to see.”
The PoC (Prince of Cumberland), is the son of the King and is also the heir to the throne. Macbeth says ‘that is a step on which I must fall down… for in my way it lies’. This means that he will try to kill Malcolm, the Prince of Cumberland in order to be next in line for the throne. ‘Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires’, this means that he does not want the stars(representing God) to see his black and deep desires (killing Malcolm).
October 17, 2016 at 12:48 pm
Good stuff.