... of his king, his kinsman and his guest. He is so horrified by what he has done that he cannot return to the chamber to leave the bloody daggers. Lady Macbeth does the job for him, thinking it a minor task that stands in the way of their triumph. She thinks "a little water clears us of this deed." How wrong she is. In ... Act 111, Banquo's murder provides the bloody backdrop for Macbeth's growing insanity. When Macbeth thinks he sees him at the banquet, he tells him "Never shake thy gory locks at me!" Of course there is no ghost. It is ... Macbeth's guilty conscience that afflicts him. ...

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... to evil spirits to give her the strength to kill Duncan. Upon Macbeth refusal to proceed with the plan Lady Macbeth pressures her husband to commit the murder and states: "and live a coward in thine own esteem"(1.7, line 47). After the assassination of Duncan is complete, Lady Macbeth acquires the highest position for a woman, Queen of Scotland. Her dream is fulfilled, but the punishment ... of guilt is yet to come. Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth suffer a tragic fall shortly after accomplishing their goal. This was seen in Act 2, scene 3 which depicts the panic that Macbeth suffers after...

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... day. "Thou shalt get Kings, though thou be none. / So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!" (Act 1.3, 67-68). As a result of the prophecies, this aroused Macbeth's curiosity of how he could be King of Scotland. As the play progresses, Macbeth slowly relies on the witches" prophecy's more. Macbeth comes to the realization that for him to in fact become King, he will have to defeat recently ... himself as a coward. All of this goes strait into Macbeth's mind, which is full of ideas for glory and honor. King Duncan is invited to Macbeth's castle, and it is there that he will be killed. Lady Macbeth...

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... warrior, loyal to the cause of Scotland, and his king, King Duncan, as one of Duncan's captain says early on- "But all's too weak for brave Macbeth -well he deserves that name -disdaining fortune with his brandished steel" (Act 1 Scene 2 lines 16-18) This quote shows that he is brave, and disregards such things, as fate in his battles, only going by his ... in the prospects though, and it only takes a matter of hours for him to start thinking about what he could do to become king, which shows what kind of person he is inside. When Lady Macbeth gets the news she is immediately quite calc...

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... something like it but Shakespeare has made Macbeth tolerate that and it has great effects on him. Because of Lady Macbeths influence it can be argued that Lady Macbeth is responsible for Macbeth's downfall. Her actions certainly help him decide on his deeds. Lady Macbeth's relationship with Macbeth goes deeper then that of the witches. The witches act only as a trigger to start the events in the ... play and Lady Macbeth herself is the driving force behind Macbeth's actions. Macbeth takes actions that lead to his downfall. Although ... the end of a play by " a man not born of woman" (M...

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... Act I, Scene 3 I think that the main idea is that there is a debate between Macbeth and himself. Lines 128 - 142 talk about Macbeth's new situation of meeting with three witches, who prophesise that Macbeth will become Thane of Cawdor, and then he will become king. This is made true when Macbeth becomes the Thane of Cawdor, and now Macbeth ... prophecy so it would come true, as in take measures to make sure he becomes king( ie. Killing Duncan). Then it is thought by Macbeth because he has become Thane of Cawdor that he will and must become king and when he doesn't think that may happen n...

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... goes through many changes in their lifetime. Not everyone, however, goes through such extreme life altering changes as the king's best general Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, in William Shakespeare's play. This concept is first evident in the first act of the play when the witches say, "Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air" (pg ... . 1). This suggests that some of the characters" lives were about to be changed by flipping their moral situations and standards. The witches" prophecy of moral transformation affects the character of Macbeth the most. His m...

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... turn to murder but the nature of it is too horrendous for him bear as he said, "Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, / And make my seated heart knock at my ribs". Thus begins the mental spiral that enraptures Macbeth for a better part of the play. For much of the remainder of this Act more so in close proximity of his wife the indecisiveness ... that Macbeth is facing in summoning the courage to murder King Duncan is evident. He is evasive of the topic and ... is heavily reliant on Lady Macbeth for reinforcement and conviction. Although his other soliloquy in scene VII, admist all th...

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... asking evil to make her witch because witches were thought to be of no gender. This relates to what Banquo said when he saw the witches for the first time: "By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me ... the letter. She tells him immediately what she wants to do and 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 ... is to fulfil his ambitio...

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... future, but Shakespeare made no reference to the witches predicting that Macbeth would ask for them to speak. Then they speak in act 2, scene 3, lines 46-48, "All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor All hail Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter" Banquo and Macbeth are startled by these predictions but Banquo is less convinced than ... mental weaknesses within the play which lead to him thinking wrongly and allowing others to motivate him. In act 1, scene 3, Macbeth is confronted by 3 witches and he is very curious to see what they...

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... passage to remorse" so that they could follow through with this cruel act. She was so heartless that she planned on framing innocent men for the murder of the king showing her masculine thoughts in this woman's body. Lady Macbeth knew that her husband would talk himself out of the plan and ... would not be so cold-blooded. One cannot force another into doing something because everyone has free will. Macbeth was contemplating to kill Duncan even before Lady Macbeth had suggested it. In Act 1, Scene 3 Macbeth says "My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, shakes so my single state ...

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... be an obstacle in the way of him becoming King. This is when Duncan praises Macbeth for his fighting skills but then elects Malcolm asPrince of Cumberland? and his successor. There is another of Macbeth's soliloquies at the end of this scene where he is thinking to himself of how ... and intimidated by his wife, another contradiction in his personality, as he is also supposedly a fearless warrior. At the beginning of Act Two the audience see Macbeth's evil and hugely ambitious side taking over as well as seeing that he is going slightly crazy, seeing things and illusions. His ... and am...

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... do anything to get what he wants... I think Mackbeth is a brave man in the battlefield. And people do talk about him like he is: "For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name- (Act I, scene 2, line 16). A situation that shows as he is very brave is when the norweyan lord sends new supplies of men to battle, he ... continues fughting, although it was a hard situation. I dont think macbeth is strong sicologicaly though, because we cann see that he is afraid about killing the ... it is, but later he wont care anymore about it, because his ambition will blind him, and will take him to kill...

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... 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 and passage to remorse" in order to be relentless. Apparently, her conscience would otherwise not allow her to act. Nonetheless, when Macbeth does as little as question her plan, she attacks him, telling him ... no steps against his former partner in battle. One reason for this is that he too is ambitious. If the prophecy has come true for Macbeth, he reasons, then perhaps it will too for him and he will father a line of kings. His ...

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... even went to England to tell Macduff. Ross likes being the messenger and he does it throughout the play, even at the end when he tells Macbeth that Lady Macbeth has killed herself. Ross has ways in some scenes of how he tells people the bad news. If it's a friend of his he shows ... of the play, when Ross tells the Siward that his son is dead, He says it with compassion because he had done a great deed by standing up to King Macbeth. The Siwards response is "why then, God's solider be he! Had I as many sons as I have hairs, I would not wish them a fairer death. ... quests know he sees a...

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... clever fashion which leaves a lot of different factors undecided. This means that there are many different viewpoints which one could take on whether or not Lady Macbeth was responsible for the murder of King Duncan. There is a lot of evidence suggesting that she either was or was not responsible. So it is necessary that I ... more and more sceptical of legends and myths, which eventually led to the belief of witches and the such to die out.) Macbeth was utterly astonished at these events for many reasons. First he could hardly believe his eyes when he sees three witches before him and ...

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Dear Journal, Today, we fought bravely in a great battle against Norway. It was an intense war and I fought fiercely, and honorably and defeated Norway! I have killed the traitor Macdowald, and stuck my sword to his pelvis and pulled up to his head. All the traitors will die a horrible death if caught. Well, on the way back to Duncan's castle, Banquo and I encountered 3 witches. These witches" prophecies tell me that I shall be king of Scotland, but I do not know if I should trust these witches. We then continue to Duncan's castle, and Ross and Angus then stop us and tell me that King Duncan h...

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