... me from the crown to the toe tope-full of direst cruelty!" (Act 1 scene 5, Lines 42-45). Shakespeare makes it known that Lady Macbeth is strong in the most horrific of ways with her strong desires for power. Again she asserts her control, but this time over husband when she ... in thine own esteem, letting 'I dare not' wait upon ' I would,' like the poor cat I' th' adage?" (Act 1 scene 7, lines 42-48). Macbeth's straight mind was short lived, as soon as his wife spoke her words of cruel persuasion . . . "Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle ... back home barely ...

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... says "To know my deed, twere best not know myself./Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!- (Shakespeare 2.2.72-73). This shows that Macbeth is sorry for what he has done and regrets killing Duncan. His state of mind now, is no longer sane. He is now starting to go crazy ... free his mind from its old obsessive horror of dust and thickness, and he can actually invoke these conditions- (Swisher 123). As the murder takes place Macbeth's state of mind is becoming more and more insane. He knows that his deeds are no longer something he regrets. He knows now that the more ... i...

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