Macbeth: '"Disdaining fortune smok'd with bloody execution"'
Meaning of "smoked"
Connotes to heat and hell, foreshadowing his malevolent nature, he will later facemoral andpsychological ramifications for
Meaning of "disdaining fortune"
Shows a disregard of his fate and his attempt to manipulate the natural order, this later becomes evident in his disruption of the divineright of kings
Macbeth's character
Although he receives a commendation for his stoicbravery as a soldier in act1, the syntax implies a symbioticrelationship between his downfall and his intrinsic proclivity
Positioning of "fortune" preceding "execution"
Foreshadows Macbeth's acquisition of an illegitimate title and wealth through violent means, but how this will also lead to his eventual execution
