... of the play, Macbeth is so mad in his power that he puts too much faith into the apparition warnings. He takes them as they are, and does not read into them. Macbeth deteriorates throughout the play with power going to his head and ends in his own death. One of Macbeth's many tragic flaws ... real, "dagger of the mind, a false creation / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain," (II.i.38-39). Killing Duncan was the first thing to start Macbeth's noticeable madness. Macbeth starts to lose his mind and speaks, "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my ...

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