 | Arthur F. Kinney - 2004 - 198 pages
...bell with which it was associated, it is taken by Macbeth to mean not refreshment but assassination: "I go, and it is done. The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell" (2.1.62-64). For Benedick, in his serious vein, the ringing of a... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 pages
...whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives: 60 Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives....invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven, or to hell. [he steals out by the open door at back, and step by step climbs... | |
 | Lisa Hopkins - 2005 - 180 pages
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 | Robert Cohen - 2005 - 312 pages
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 | Colin Butler - 2005 - 217 pages
...murderous intent, but at the same time exuding reluctance, craven obedience, and an acute sense of guilt:"I go, and it is done; the bell invites me. / Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell, / That summons thee to heaven or to hell." Macbeth 's exit shows him to be human in both senses of the word.... | |
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I go, and it is done: the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven, or to hell. 
