...bloody knives, / . . . All which we pine for now" (III.vi.33-7). In an earlier scene, Macbeth would "let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds...of these terrible dreams, / That shake us nightly" (III. ii. 16-19). Dining and repose most famously intersect again in . . . the innocent sleep, Sleep...

...king, who has murdered his predecessor, Duncan, only to be overtaken by horrible torments of mind: ... we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction...dreams, That shake us nightly: better be with the dead . . . Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave: After life's...

...that occupied Freud, has a remarkable moment of anguish when he seems actually to envy his victim: Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace,...Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst;...

...(this world and any other) to escape the bad that he has brought upon himself and to salvage some good: "But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds...of these terrible dreams, / That shake us nightly" (3.2.16-22; see also 4.1.50-60). Some of the bad in our world, then what we are most apt to regard...

...it, but when it may react on the tragedy by harmonious contrast. Ib. sc. 2. Macbeth's speech : — * But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds...affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly. Ever and ever mistaking the anguish of conscience for fears of selfishness, and thus as a punishment...

...our meal in fear and sleep In the affliction of these terrihle dreams That shake us nightly: heuer he with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent...Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst;...

...and sleep, therefore his punishment is a living death, without peaceful sleep or peaceful feeding : But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds...affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly . . . (in. ii. 16) So Lennox prays for the time when Scotland may again Give to our tables meat, sleep...

...us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence. Banquo — Macbeth I.iii Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace,...Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Macbeth — Macbeth IIIM The time has been, That, when the brains were out, the man would...

...has become a fact, and the past cannot remain the past because it is related to him and to no other: Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace,...Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. (III.ii.19-22) Macbeth makes three revealing remarks to the ghost of Banquo that are based...

...soul ("Stars hide your fires," I.iv.50). In his anxiety before Banquo's assassination, Macbeth swears, "But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, /Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep/In the affliction of these terrible dreams, /That shake us nightly. Better be with the dead."49...