... Lady Macbeth hears that King Duncan is dining at her castle, she says in her anticipation of his murder: "Make thick my blood" (1.5.42). By this, she is asking the evil spirits to allow her to cold-heartedly, and without emotion, participate in the murder of Duncan. After the murder of Duncan, blood becomes a symbol of guilt. Lady Macbeth smears Duncan's chamber guards with the ... King's blood, in order to make them look guilty of the "bloody business", as Macbeth calls the murder. The guilt theme now dominates the ... the Guilty Macbeth, and then is killed himself by the Honourable M...

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... 's weakening gashes are seen as heroic as Duncan states, "thy words become thee as thy wounds: they smack of honor both." However, as soon as Macbeth decides to kill Duncan in order fulfill the witches" prophecy, the blood motif embodies betrayal and corruption. Before Macbeth goes to kill Duncan, his wife calls upon spirits to stop her remorse and "Make thick my ... I did it. Never shake / Thy gory locks at me." Macbeth refuses to acknowledge Banquo's vitality, yelling, "quit my sight thy blood is cold." As Lady Macbeth tries to pacify her husband, Macbeth tries to justify his sin and a...

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... his mental state. Macbeth commands the ghost to, "Avaunt and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with" (III.iv.93-96). Macbeth wants Banquo's ghost to go back to it's grave where it ... know that it would come back to haunt him. When Macbeth becomes hysterical, Lady Macbeth tries to console him by telling him that it is only in his head and none of it is true. It is significant for Lady Macbeth to be clever because otherwise everyone would have found out the truth ... committed tr...

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... Duncan. The Relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth is heavily contrasted with the relationship between Macduff and Lady Macduff. Lady Macbeth, is in fact presented as very UN-lady-like, possessing more masculine qualities than feminine qualities. Lady Macduff, however, is the complete opposite of ... societies' definition of what a woman should be like; the kind, nurturing one and not the cold, ruthless, and scolding one. Shakespeare uses this contrast to emphasise the lack of feminine qualities in Lady Macbeth, which is vital to the drama of the play, as it is Lady Macbeth's inf...

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... can have a great deal of influence over men, using language and emotions to control their thoughts and actions. Lady Macbeth, wife to the protagonist in Shakespeare's Macbeth, manipulates her indecisive husband into slaying the Scottish king. Lady Macbeth is responsible for the death of Duncan, rather than her fickle ... force that is able to manipulate and sway Macbeth to do her bidding. Even though Macbeth is the one who assassinates Duncan in his sleep, he is very fickle in making the decision, and would not have come to the same conclusion if it weren't for his wife, Lady Macbeth. Sho...

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... to persuade Macbeth into killing Duncan, assuring Macbeth that it will succeed, as Lady Macbeth's ambition is far greater than that of Macbeth. This change in the character of Lady Macbeth is apparent after she reads the letter from Macbeth as she goes and talks to the evil spirits to make herself evil ... him and smeared them with blood and then told Macbeth to change into a nightgown. At this point Lady Macbeth is in complete control and has tried to make Macbeth free of guilt even though he in fact did perform the deed. Lady Macbeth is then able to exclaim in horror "What! In our Hous...

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... to live. Yet who would have thought the old man To have so much blood in him? What, will these hands ne"er be clean? Here's the smell of blood still. All The perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O! (V i 41-55) Lady Macbeth's cold, hard, supernatural disposition in the beginning of the play is one that is very capable of producing the ... desired effect, which in this case is murder. When the supernatural aid on Lady Macbeth's disposition ... runs out, the guilt of the crimes she has committed is just too much for her. The affects of her gender got to her when her...

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... his soul could never be cleansed no matter what he did. He said They pluck out mine own eyes!/Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood/Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather/The Multitudinous seas incarnadine, /Making the green one red (act II, scene iii, l ... and the "tomorrow and tomorrow" speech. Scotland makes accusations through Banquo's soliloquy and the nobles speaking of Macbeth in act five proving their beliefs of murder. The entire country believes he is covered in blood yet the reader is the only one who understands his reactions towards the deeds he has commi...

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... betrays his country, his king, and his loyal friend Banquo. Shakespeare uses symbolism, soliloquies, and dramatic irony to get this overlying theme of betrayal. In the beginning of Macbeth, three witches portray Macbeth's future by telling him he will become Thane of Cawdor, and then King of Scotland. When Macbeth ... the need for power that Macbeth as a human strives for, come together to kill King Duncan, being his first act of betrayal. In Macbeth's soliloquy regarding the dagger in Act 2 Scene 1, the reader understands that Macbeth does feel guilty about his plans to murder King Du...

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... killing the king. The superstitious opening of the play immediately implies doom and tragedy, and the audience would associate the witches with evil, as I said in the last paragraph. There would always be an undertone of evil beneath Macbeth following this association. I think that as they continuously pump ideas into his head ... but as soon as she gets the information it starts going through the cogs in her mind. She is cold about the whole thing, and says to herself about how Macbeth is not strong enough and too kind to murder in cold blood, and she hoes through what she will have to ...

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... because of the position he held. He was a man for whom I held great respect, yet here I was planning his cold-blooded murder! The horror of these thoughts brought me to my senses and I told Lady Macbeth that we would proceed no further in this business. However, my ambition was too great and my will too weak as the words she spoke at ... me the comfort of sleep. My wife told me a little water would clear us of this deed but I could not see how even all Neptune's oceans could wash clean my blood-stained hands. My life had changed. I now had to live with the new man I had become. The man t...

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... concludes that "the fastest way" for Macbeth to become king is by murdering King Duncan. Lady Macbeth's immediate thoughts may make her appear as thoroughly irreligiously cold and ambitious, but this is not so. To prepare for what she feels must be done she calls on evil spirits to "stop up th' access ... father as he slept, I had done't" the murder herself. Her conscience is trying to rid itself of the guilt by her "washing her hands" of the imagined blood. Macbeth, on the other hand, seems to do the exact reverse of Lady Macbeth. He begins as "the bravest soldier" with a good, clear con...

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... I believe that it is an injustice to describe him only as a butcher because he does have a conscience. With regard to Lady Macbeth the claim is, in my view utterly justified. I will explain my view of the statement by providing important evidence to support my claims. It is undeniable that Macbeth is a murderer. ... to kill him: "Then live Macduff, what need I fear of thee"? From the above evidence, it is reasonable to conclude that Macbeth has much blood on his hands even although he is pushed into committing evil by his wife. Macbeth is driven by the powerful contradictions with his cha...

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... we also dont sympathise with Macbeth during a lot of the play. In act three he says "By the worst means, the worst, for mine own good, all causes shall give way."He will destroy all obstacles in his way! He also says, "I am in blood stepped so far, that should I wade no more, returning were as ... tedious as go o'er." In this speech, Macbeth states that he's in a sea of blood, and now that he's got so far, its stupid to stop ... - because he will soon get caught, and he knows that even if he does stop, God will never forgive him for what he has done - so he's going to keep on committin...

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... is his conscious and it seems as if he is too tensed by the idea of killing the King. He imagines all the blood dripping from the dagger. He also sees the dagger directing him to King Duncan's chamber. While he is imagining the dagger, he ... did it: never shake Thy gory locks at me." In this part Macbeth is talking to the ghost claiming that he hasn't done the killing. Another example, "Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; thou hast no speculation in those eyes which thou dost glare with.", this is another ... part from the same scene when the ghost disappears and then reappear...

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... and belive they are worthless when the time for action is needed. The witches had provided the temptation for Macbeth at the beginning and later on in the play when they meet again, this time with Hectate, they feed his thirst for more prophecies, using apparitions. These apparitions tell Macbeth that, ... Lady Macbeth doesn't commit the murder of the King herself but only convinces Macbeth that it would be in his best interests. Macbeth has now made the transformation from a loyal subject of the king to a cold-blooded killer, a change that only he could have prevented. Another point to ...

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... essentially evil, ambition makes him strive for evil, and on the way, forces him to perform evil deeds. However, many of the traits that we see in Macbeth are commended, even if he is ruthless in his killings. He is not destitute of feelings, unlike a cold-blooded villain. He feels sympathy, remorse and pity. Lady Macbeth, on the other hand, is much more ... cold-blooded, and a character we fear because of that. Her obdurate strength of will and masculine firmness gives her the ascendency over her husband's faltering virtue. She at ... sleep-, "I am afraid to think what I have done;/Lo...

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... influenced. Macbeth puts power into the hands of Lady Macbeth by letting her arrange Duncan's murder. "Will it not be received, / When we have mark"d with blood those sleepy two / Of his own chamber, and used their very daggers, / That they have done't?" (I, vii, 82-85). Macbeth agrees with the plan ... reappears and Macbeth goes ballistic, saying, "Avaunt, and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee!/ Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold;/ Thou hast no speculation in those eyes/ Which thou dost glare with!"(III.iv.114-118) Lady Macbeth again says that Macbeth is ill, so the guests...

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... the fastest way" for Macbeth to become king is by murdering King Duncan. Lady Macbeth's immediate thoughts may make her appear as thoroughly irreligiously cold and ambitious, but this is not so. To prepare for what she feels must be done she calls on evil spirits to "stop up ... it herself. Unsexed and Uncovered Lady Macbeth progresses throughout the play from a seemingly savage and heartless creature to a very delicate and fragile woman. In the beginning of the play Lady Macbeth manipulates her husband with remarkable effectiveness, overriding all his objections; when he hesitates to mur...

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... But he can't grasp it, and he realizes that he's seeing the dagger which he will use in the murder, a dagger which motive him toward King Duncan's door, and a dagger upon which appear thick drops of blood. Macbeth knows that "It is the bloody business which informs / Thus to mine eyes", and he ... wants to be as bloody as that dagger. The feeling of the dark in the night and bad dreams come. The moods of darkness which Murder ... "alarum"d," called to action, by his sentinel, the wolf. But usually, a sentinel is keep an eye out for danger and call out a warning, but in Macbeth thought...

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... she herself would kill her own child rather then back down. This is a very powerful image, and further increases her mask of cold ambition, also suggesting more links in Lady Macbeth's mind between femininity and kindness, which she seems to think is the truth. Her manipulation is again, effective. She fills ... him with pride, and using that, suggests a seemingly easy way of dispatching the King in his sleep, and blaming the murder on the guards. Macbeth applauds her, and quickly psyches himself towards the task, steeling himself to put on a false ... a sign of weakness on Lady Macbeth'...

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... the audience all is not well. The fact that Macbeth still has hold of the daggers intensifies the tension felt in the scene. His hands would be covered in blood, which would make the drama explosive. Macbeth however, describes the horrors of the murder and cannot seem to believe ... he has committed such an evil crime, "This is a sorry sight". Thoughts of the murder plague his mind. He appears transfixed and very troubled by his deeds. Whilst Lady Macbeth in ... Shakespeare makes the audience aware of how much more confident than Macbeth she is by taking control of the situation. Macbe...

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... me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty!" Lady Macbeth wants to lose her femininity so she can be cold-blooded and commit murder like a man does. However, more than anything, it appears that Lady Macbeth is a very greedy woman, desirous of things that seem ... on securing her place as queen. She looks to the "quickest way" to shorten the pair's path to the throne. Lady Macbeth at this point in the play is quite certainly unaware of what she is getting herself into, having never contemplated anything of this degree before, let alone carried it out, ... ...

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... are born of woman. However, the opposite effect is produced when he learns of Macduff unnatural birth. Another aspect of Aristotelian thought that is exhibited in Macbeth is that the story is universal. A universal story is one that holds is value through time. Macbeth is considered to be a classic even ... is unwilling upsetting Lady Macbeth to the point that she states, "Come you spirits/ That tend on moral thoughts, unsex me here/ make thick my blood/ Stop up ht" access and passage to remorse;/ Come to my woman's breast,/And take my milk from gall (I.v..40-47). However, after accusing...

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