... use of the witches, the murders that occur, and the conflicts that Macbeth faces with his mental health exemplify the function of night. In Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, he uses the motif of night to show the mystery that surrounds Macbeth's fate, and the evil that infects and later consumes him. The uncertainty of Macbeth's fate ... the fog and filthy air" (I.i.12-13). This is mantra is an ideal example of the dark and dirty atmosphere that surrounds the witches. Further proving the connection between night and evil, Hecate exclaims, "Hark! I am called. My little spirit, see, Sits in a...

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... and dramatic effects, contributing to the gradual development of the play. Take Lady Macbeth's first invocation to darkness in Act I, Scene V: "Come, thick Night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of Hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor Heaven peep through the blanket ... deed and the cry envisions the imaginary voice which MACBETH hears as he 'murders Sleep'. This encompasses the central action of the play, murder. On the night MACBETH brutally kills the King of Scotland, Banquo fearful of his own 'cursed thoughts' observes that: "There's husbandry in heaven; Their ...

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... Come to my woman's breasts, And my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of ... and is obsessed by the witches" prophecies to Banquo. He feels that Banquo is a threat to him, and so he decides to have him murdered at night. The three witches, and their queen Hecate contribute a lot of evil to the play by interfering with human lives. They lead Macbeth to his downfall: Hecate...

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... wash this blood clean from my hand? No- Next, the image of blood is portrayed when Macbeth calls upon the "bloody and invisible hand" of night to help the murderers he had hired carry out the assassination of Banquo and Fleance, his son. The Macbeth realizes that "blood will have blood," and ... dwarfish thief." Finally, Shakespeare also uses the imagery of animals as well. "It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman, which gives the stern'st good-night." In Act two, scene two, Lady Macbeth waits anxiously for Macbeth to return from killing Duncan, the King of Scotland. This goes ag...

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... are many different references to these two elements, and each one is connected to certain symbols which take the form of animals, plants, day, and night. Ultimately, light and darkness represent good and evil.  In the first scenes of Act I, the imagery of light is used when King Duncan names ... start of darkness taking over Scotland, but can also be seen as a metaphor for Duncan's life being ˜strangled' by Macbeth, ˜the dark night'. Another example of darkness overtaking light occurs when Banquo's torchlight (the one that illuminates him just enough so his murderers can see what the...

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... from then on. There was no time for further thought, only action. Everything was falling into place. Duncan was to come to stay at our home that night. If the deed were to be done, then it would need to be done quickly and the opportunity was there. I hurried on to Inverness ahead of ... felt after the deed was done. I deeply regretted my crime as soon as I"d done it. I prayed that Duncan would wake from his sleep but from that night even sleep was murdered as my conscience would not allow me the comfort of sleep. My wife told me a little water would clear us of this deed but I ... have ...

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... sit a-top the throne and be king, fulfilling both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's dreams. Along with many other darkness images, Ross talks how the "dark night strangles the traveling lamp" (2.4 9). This symbolizes that darkness is taking over. Therefore, the reader assumes that since darkness represents death, death and despair are ... taking over. In reality, it is merely a solar eclipse, which has covered up the sun, making it dark for a few hours. In conclusion, night imagery creates a dark path for each reader's mind to follow. Along with darkness, the comparison and use of animals to peo...

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... mirrors the emotion felt when in the midst of war, and in the same way the storm is mirroring the battle. Weather also plays a role on the night of King Duncan's murder when Fleance is expressing his worry to his father, Banquo, "The moon is down; I have not heard the clock" ... place because one most often correlates darkness with this emotion. This is effective because it hints at the fact that the king is going to be murdered that night, a doing most certainly evil. Another example takes place just before Banquo is murdered. Entering on his horse, Banquo says, "It will rain tonight& ...

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... it not, Duncan, for it is knell that summons thee to heaven, or to hell" (Act 2, scene 1). Macbeth leaves to kill Macbeth then later on that night he meets up with Lady Macbeth, they speak of Duncan and of the deed has been done. Lady Macbeth is proud of her self for putting the kings guards ... a crown but would his best friend do something like that? Moments later Macbeth enters and begins to talk to Banquo about a feast that he is having that night. Macbeth tells Banquo that the feast is going to be held in his honor. Banquo says he will be there but he must go but that he will ... a...

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... , they are often a bad omen., just as they are in Macbeth. Birds such as crows, vultures, and ravens are all signs of death. The birds of prey that hunt at night and the soaring raptors that can kill with one mighty swoop are much like the title character himself: powerful but mortal. Macbeth may have been able to control certain events ... on his bloodthirsty journey for power in the monarchy. "Light thickens; and the crow/ Makes wing to rooky wood:/ Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; While night's black agents to their preys do rouse" (3.2.53). Macbeth boasts this to his wif...

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... that he cannot carry out the murder. As soon as Lady Macbeth sees her husband she pressures into killing Duncan. After finding out Duncan is staying at their castle that night, she immediately says, "O never/ shall sun that morrow see." B7y this she means that Duncan will never see morning again as he will be dead. She tells Macbeth to deceive ... no spur/ but only/Vaulting ambition o"er leaps itself- Immediately after this soliloquy where Macbeth ponders over regicide, Lady Macbeth enters. She asks Duncan whether he will murder Duncan that night, and when he replies that he will not be...

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... them. In between the end of act 1, scene 5 and act 3, scene 1 a banquet has been held and Macbeth has agreed to murder Duncan. Late at night, under Lady Macbeths order he goes to murder Duncan. After he has done the deed he reports to his wife with the dripping daggers in his hands. Macbeth shows ... and Lady Macbeth act very innocent and no one suspects them and suspicion is hanging over the guards because Lady Macbeth had covered them in blood the night and rested the daggers next to them before so Macbeth had them put to death. Duncan's sons, Malcolm and Donalbain had fled to England ...

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... Bradley said about Macbeth:" Darkness, we may even say blackness, broods over this tragedy . all the scenes which at once recur to memory take place either at night or in some dark spot." Shakespeare used symbols of darkness to describe a character that was changing from a valiant nobleman to a murderous tyrant. I agree with ... at Macbeth's castle, Dunsinane, he is met with a "false face must hide what the false heart doth know" (1.7.82). During the darkness of the night, Macbeth plans go to work. He kills Duncan with his guards" swords, and then kills the guards out of "vengeance" for...

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... started to eat each other. Day also turned to darkness, your emphasise this by personifying the 'dark night'. "By th'clock 'tis day and yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp". Darkness suggests evil and the evil act of killing King Duncan is committed at night. The daylight, however, does not regain its rightful place during the say to show that something evil ... and unnatural occurred the night before. Through this inversion of nature the world is turned upside down. I can see that you were a truly prophetic playwright Mr. Shakespeare, as you wrote 'Macbeth' in 1605 and as ......

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... be crowned. She figures that she will have push him to do it. An attendant enters the room to tell Lady Macbeth that the King is coming to stay that night. Lady Macbeth reacts shocked but covers it up and soon sends him away. At this point Lady Macbeth feels that she will have to encourage Macbeth to commit the murder ... that the sun will not be shining for Duncan. "O Never Shall sun that morrow see." Macbeth is shocked to learn that Lady Macbeth is planning to kill Duncan this very night and at how straightforward she puts it to him, and Lady Macbeth notices this on his face. She tell...

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... for her husband but when asked to be included in other discussions, Macbeth merely says, "Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck/Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night/Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day" (3.2.47-49). He implies that she no longer needs to help him carry out any of his evil plans. He tells ... out the accomplishment after it has been achieved, that way she may applaud her husband from the sidelines. He also mentions to her to beware of the night since the day is kind but the night is not. In addition, although Lady Macbeth wants to know more, she stays ...

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... ' and that she should have 'no compunctious visitings of nature' that might prevent her from murdering Duncan. We now find her sleepwalking and her mind is continually reliving the night of the murder. While she is sleepwalking she mumbles: "Who would have thought that the old man would have had so much blood in him?" Sleepwalking is a sign ... that the person feels guilty or worried about something. This makes Lady Macbeth seem weak and vulnerable. On the night of the murder Lady Macbeth wanted it to be dark, 'come thick night' so that the darkness would cover up her evil deed...

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... wine, so as to send them into a stupor, followed by Macbeth killing Duncan with the Chamberlains" daggers. This organization and shamelessness is blatant throughout the beginning of the play. The night of Duncan's murder, Lady Macbeth anxiously awaits the completion of the act by her husband, who returns distraught, covered in blood and still holding the daggers. While he recites the ... begins to feel the stresses of the situation. Even so, she encourages her husband to "Sleek o"er your rugged looks. Be bright and jovial among your guests tonight (3. 2. 31.)" That night, after Banquo's...

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... natural and unnatural occurrences are evident, along with natural and unnatural personalities. Early on in the play Lennox talks about the unusual things that happened on the night that Duncan was killed. He says, "The night has been unruly. Where we lay our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say, Lamentings heard I" th" air, strange screams of death- (II, iii). This ... tells us that the night was full of evil and everyone was aware of it. As discussed before Lady Macbeth's overall personality towards the beginning of the play is flat out ruthless. She sees nothing ... ...

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... that Macbeth has indeed been named Thane of Cawdor. Intrigued by the possibility of becoming king, but uncertain of what to expect, Macbeth invites Duncan to dine with him that night and writes ahead to his wife, telling her all that has happened. Lady Macbeth suffers no uncertainty; she wishes the kingship for her husband, and wants him to murder Duncan ... in order to obtain it. When Macbeth arrives at his castle, she persuades him to kill Duncan that very night. When Duncan's death is discovered the next morning, Macbeth takes charge of the group of Scottish nobles, easily assuming t...

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... 's death. An old man (Act II Scene IV) describes many of these things. He says he sees strange things on that night OLD MAN: "Withing the volume of which time I have seen Hours dreadful, and things strange; but this sore night Hath trifled former knowings." ROSS: "Ha, good father, Thou storey skies, stars moving addly with man's act" Ross's speech means that ... Macbeth and tells the lords he is fine. "Are you a man?" she asks him. Lady Macbeth asks them to leave kindly. The evening didn't go well for them. "A kind good night to all." Macbeth acted cowardly towards the lords, seeing a vi...

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... could not have murdered Duncan without the help of Lady Macbeth. In Act 1, Scene 5, Lady Macbeth devises a plan to kill Duncan while he visits Macbeth. and you shall put This night's great business into my dispatch. (Lady Macbeth: Act 1, Scene 5, 74-75) She explains to her husband of how she will manage everything, except for the killing. The plan is that ... true feelings begin to reveal. Therefore he leaves the grand banquet that he throws for the king, so he can have time to think about Lady Macbeth's plans for the night. The thought about killing the king appalls Macbeth, yet the th...

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... in singular words as well as full phrases for instance words like "unseamed" and phrases such as "Like strange garments, cleave not their mould- The theme sleep and darkness or night is shown early in the play. In scene three is the first main quote we get associating the theme sleep to the text. "Sleep neither ... night nor day hangs upon his penthouse lid." This means that Macbeth will be unable to sleep night or day and his eyelid slope down like a roof. Darkness in this quotes," Stars hide your fires, let not light see my ... ...

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... in the play and to show where evil is hidden in different acts. In the first act, the play opens with thunder and lightning, and the description is of a dark night. This sets the play with an eerie feeling, perhaps one of danger. The bad weather is then followed by the arrival witches, who with their "Fair is foul, and foul ... (goodness) or the goodness in his own heart to see that he is willing to murder Duncan to get the crown. Lady Macbeth also implores in I, V, 57-60, "Come, thick night/ and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell/ that my keen knife see not the wound it makes/ nor ...

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... that she would be very glad to be queen and she is fairly ambitious. The attendant then arrives and announces that king Duncan will be staying at the castle that night and that Macbeth is coming with them. When the attendant leaves she reveals her extremely evil intentions on her being queen in her small soliloquy. In act 1, scene5, she says ... ," That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan". This infers that Duncan shall arrive that night and something fatal will happen to him. Lady Macbeth has already planned what will happen to Duncan and she is full with evil ambitions for Duncan. In t...

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