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Gargoyles :: City of Stone, Part Three (02x11)
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| Title: | City of Stone, Part Three |
| Episode #: | 02x11 |
| Production Number: | 016 |
| Original Airdate: | Wednesday September 20th, 1995 |
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Shakespeare's influence: The beginning of MacBeth's story is very similar to the beginning of the play MacBeth: the three witches prophesizing about he being made king. The Weird Sisters, Fleance and Banquo are also characters from the play.
| Xanatos tells Owen that "mixing magics is dangerous." He is probably insinuating that Puck won't be able to solve the problem.
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Selene: All hail Duncan, king of Scotland, father of the king hereafter.
Phoebe: All hail MacBeth, king of Scotland and father of the king hereafter.
Duncan: You speak treason, old crone.
MacBeth: You are but half right, good mothers. Duncan is the right and proper king.
Luna: King now, he is, but each of you shall in turn be king.
MacBeth: I say thee nay, weird sisters. Prince Canmore is destined to be king after Duncan.
Luna: You would lecture us on fate?
| MacBeth: Oh, it's nothing. I go to see my cousin, the king. Oh, be of good cheer, hm. The journey will be brief.
You! You are the answer.
Demona: I am uninterested in the question.
MacBeth: Wait! Don't you remember me? Together, we defeated the Hunter.
Demona: That is the only reason I do not crush you where you stand.
| Demona: And what about my clan?
MacBeth: Help me now, and I swear to keep them forever safe.
Demona: You sing an old song. How do I know you'll keep your word?
| MacBeth: Let this mark the beginning of a golden age between all our clans, both human and gargoyle. Humans will learn to respect you.
Demona: I would rather they feared me.
MacBeth: They'll do that too, Demona.
Demona: Demona. I like the sound of that.
| Demona: (to herself) There are secrets about this castle even you don't know, Xanatos. Hmm, so nice of him to leave this computer online . . . that will make it easy to spoile his plans, but first I'll take care of some unfinished business...(facing a stone Elisa) I thought I rid myself of you long ago, human. Fortunately, that mistake is easily rectified...
| King Duncan: (to Macbeth) And now it ends, usurper!
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Why would Elisa be turned against the door that led to the balcony? If she was going to tell the clan about Demona's broadcast, she should be facing the balcony's doorway.
| If the alleged eyewitness never watches TV, how could she know that the reason for people turning to stone was the broadcast?
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Phoebe: Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
The scene and line are taken directly from Act 4, scene 1 of Macbeth.
| MacBeth: My king, we must not take seriously the ravings of three old bedlams.
Bedlam (the name is a variation of Bethlem, or Bethlehem) an old insane asylum, originally called St.Mary of Bethlehem, later a hospital for the mentally ill, in Lambeth borough, London, England. The term is used to describe any insane asylum, or any place or condition of noise or confusion.
| MacBeth: And as High King, I swear by the Stone of Destiny to protect Scotland and serve her people all my days.
The Stone of Destiny, was Scotland's coronation stone, also known as The Stone of Scone, named after a village in East Scotland northeast of Perth; site of an abbey that contained the stone on which Scottish kings before 1296 were crowned. The stone was removed by Edward I and placed under the coronation chair at Westminster Abbey. In 1996 it was returned to Edinburgh Castle.
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Demon, the mother -- Angel, the daughter
MacBeth was impressed with Demona's fighting skills, and named her Demona because she fought "like a demon." In Latin grammar, every name with the suffix "-a" is feminine, so MacBeth simply added it to 'Demon'. Demona's daughter is also named in the same fashion, by adding an "-a" to 'Angel,' and here lies an ironic contrast: Demon, the mother, and Angel, the daughter. In early times, Demona was called 'Angel of the Night'.
| The Weird Sisters, Part One
The Weird Sisters are based, of course, upon the three Witches of Shakespeare's play Macbeth. They have also characteristics of The Fates of Greek mythology and the Norns of Norse mythologies, who were both associated with destiny and were both portrayed as composed of three women. The individual names of the Weird Sisters also suggest a connection to the moon, since Luna is the moon Goddess in Roman mythology (and 'luna' is Latin for 'moon'), and Phoebe and Selene are the moon Goddesses in Greek mythology. Another moon-goddess in classical mythology was Hecate, protector of witches, who was also portrayed as a triple-goddess, and appears in Macbeth as the Weird Sisters' superior. (see also "Part Four" and "Avalon, Part Two")
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