... -struggle and guilt that are often buried under the stereotypical image. Shakespeare successfully separates Macbeth from these stereotypes, which appears startling among these hackneyed murder tales. In Macbeth, Shakespeare digs into the raw side of murderers, placing their inner struggle and guilt in the limelight. The characters, mainly Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, experience surprising stages of emotional metamorphosis - peaceful loyalty, cold-blooded murder, and hateful ... revenge v/s which, in the end, gradually replace their original behavior with their antithesis. In the early scene...

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... harassed her husband, that he was driven to commit all this evil. "... her blood thickened, her milk changed to gaul - into the inhuman, the distortion of nature..." (Ludwyk 233). This illustrates the complete metamorphosis of Lady Macbeth from a loving, beautiful, caring, kind wife to a ruthless, nasty, shrew of a woman. The women in this play distort Macbeth's intuition so much that he thinks he is doing ... the right thing. "... his liberty of free choice is determined more and more by evil inclination and that he can not choose the better course..." (Bloom 55 ... ). Even after the d...

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... of evil and eventually capitulate fully to it. However even towards the end he still retains some of our sympathy. We can still see that there is some humanity in him. The contrasts between the portrayal of Macbeth at the start of the play and the Macbeth at the end of the play are great indeed. At the start Macbeth is extremely well loved by King Duncan. This is ... illustrated by the king saying "Might have been mine! Only I have left to say / More is thy ... he calls lady Macbeth "my dearest partner of greatness" in his initial letter to her explaining his encounter with the witches...

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