... , as he says to himself, "Glamis, and thane of Cawdor! The greatest is behind." Macbeth is again influenced by the witches later in Act 4 scene 1 by their apparitions. The second apparition is especially influential. " The power of man, for none woman born shall harm Macbeth." Line 80-81. It makes Macbeth see himself as invincible and able to commit any crime he wants unchallenged. More ... proof that Macbeth has agreed to yield to the evil is shown in Act 1 scene 4, line 50-51, after Duncan announces Malcolm as his heir and ... bounces back and forth in his mind, but then is finally re...

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... is destiny, that it must be done, and even that he would be less of a man and a husband if he didn't follow his ambition. Slowly, Macbeth's brain becomes even more corrupted. He falls into the paralyzing trap of tricking his conscience whenever he can. He tries to destroy the visions of the good ... could he justify his horrific actions to the world, and to himself? Of course, the way is to deflect all thoughts of responsibility. It was Lady Macbeth that convinced him to commit the murder, it was the witches who say it was his destiny to become king, and the good qualities of ambition an...

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... to hide his evil desires. He does not want anyone to know what he has done. As Lady Macbeth here that Macbeth will be king, she is all for murdering Duncan. According to Choki Lady Macbeth asks the sprits to "unsex" her "make thick her blood" as to stop its access to remorse ... , and, generally, to give her the strength to do the evil deed. She too calls upon darkness to play a role in hiding the deadly act, or rather "assist" her in the murder. (Choksi) Macbeth and Lady Macbeth ... want darkness to surround them while they murder of Duncan. After the murder of Duncan, Macbeth is crowne...

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... the idea. She was the 1st person to openly to talk about killing Duncan. After their discussion, Macbeth weighed up the reasons to kill or not kill Duncan and had decided against the deed. Lady Macbeth immeadietly appealed for a change of mind. Lady Macbeth called her husband a coward, drunk and challenged him to prove his love to her by killing Duncan. If it wasn ... 't for Lady Macbeth's influence, Macbeth certainly wouldn't have killed Duncan. Deliberation and conflicting thoughts are another aspect of Macbeth which clearly shows all decisions were made by free will. If it was Macbeth...

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... the idea. She was the 1st person to openly to talk about killing Duncan. After their discussion, Macbeth weighed up the reasons to kill or not kill Duncan and had decided against the deed. Lady Macbeth immeadietly appealed for a change of mind. Lady Macbeth called her husband a coward, drunk and challenged him to prove his love to her by killing Duncan. If it wasn ... 't for Lady Macbeth's influence, Macbeth certainly wouldn't have killed Duncan. Deliberation and conflicting thoughts are another aspect of Macbeth which clearly shows all decisions were made by free will. If it was Macbeth...

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... and honour. The supernatural element of the play provides a dilemma for Macbeth, which ultimately leads to his tragic down fall. In the opening scenes Shakespeare introduces Macbeth as a courageous soldier and a nobleman. "What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won" Act 1 scene 2 Macbeth is thought of very highly and is pronounced Thane of Cawdor. I think Macbeth deserved this title, because he evidently showed great courage in battle ... the witches and demands they tell him what he wants to know. " Macbeth: Beware Macduff" The first apparition tells him to beware of Macduff, but Macbet...

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... and honour. The supernatural element of the play provides a dilemma for Macbeth, which ultimately leads to his tragic down fall. In the opening scenes Shakespeare introduces Macbeth as a courageous soldier and a nobleman. "What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won" Act 1 scene 2 Macbeth is thought of very highly and is pronounced Thane of Cawdor. I think Macbeth deserved this title, because he evidently showed great courage in battle ... the witches and demands they tell him what he wants to know. " Macbeth: Beware Macduff" The first apparition tells him to beware of Macduff, but Macbet...

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... It is easy to see that it was Macbeth who killed King Duncan but was there a stronger force than just his own greed that drew the dagger? Lady Macbeth is responsible for the death of King Duncan and therefore more evil than Macbeth. The first time that Lady Macbeth enters the play she is speaking to herself ... and trying to conjure evil spirits. She has just received a letter from Macbeth telling her of how he had spoken to ... they had prophesied that he would be king. They had also prophesied that he would become Thane of Cawdor which had already come true. Macbeth also tells her the...

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... power and magic, which they can use to disrupt anyone they wishes lives. They arrange to meet with Macbeth so they can put thoughts of murder into his head by chanting strange prophecies. Macbeth is deeply frightened by the witches and their prophecies and eventually starts to believe them and thinks that the ... only choice he has is to follow what they say for the prophecies will all come true somehow no matter what happens. ... Though we, the audience, know that the witches are only trying to stir up trouble with no real goal or purpose at hand, Macbeth falsely believes their magic a...

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... his downfall I believe that he is not totally responsible for what happens. Macbeth is extremely passionate about becoming king but in the first act, his motivation comes from his wife. Macbeth begins the play with no power but has a little control; hence Lady Macbeth had all the power and most of the control. ... would do as she requested she says such things as "when you durst do it, then you were a man" (Act one, scene 7, line 45 onwards). And Expecting Macbeth to follow her orders, but when he becomes indecisive about killing the king she labels him a coward when she says," ... his...

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... turns his back on friends and loved ones as he becomes obsessed with the witches prophecy. An important relationship is the one between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. At the start of the play, Macbeth cares deeply for Lady Macbeth. He calls her things like his "dearest partner of greatness" (Act I; v line ii). He sees her as his equal partner. At the start of the play, Lady ... he used the term "dearest chuck" which is a term usually used for a child or someone beneath you. Still, at the banquet, Lady Macbeth retains some control and tries to get Macbeth to act normally when he sees Banquo's...

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... the ideas we have of blood. Blood is mentioned often in the play and most times in reference to murder or treason. The first reference to blood is in Act 2, Scene 1, when Macbeth sees the dagger floating in the air leading him to Duncan"s room and he sees "on the blade and dudgeon gouts of blood", indicating that the knife has been ... visciously and violently stabbed into someone. The next reference, in Scene 2, is when Lady Macbeth smears the blood from the dagger on the faces and hands of the sleeping servants "I"ll guild the faces of the grooms withal, for it must seem their guilt"....

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... factor that lead to Macbeth's downfall was his greed. An example of Macbeth's greed is seen when he posses complete power over Scotland and yet believes it to be fruitless if his children were not also kings. In act 3, scene 2 line 65, Macbeth stated: "No son of mine succeeding, if it be so for Banquo's issue have I filled my mind, for them the gracious Duncan I have ... murdered." This track of thought leads Macbeth to kill Banquo. Killing him would have no doubt won Macbeth more enemies. His greed was the spade he used to ... 3 scenes later conversing with an unnamed lord. In this co...

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... factor that lead to Macbeth's downfall was his greed. An example of Macbeth's greed is seen when he posses complete power over Scotland and yet believes it to be fruitless if his children were not also kings. In act 3, scene 2 line 65, Macbeth stated: "No son of mine succeeding, if it be so for Banquo's issue have I filled my mind, for them the gracious Duncan I have ... murdered." This track of thought leads Macbeth to kill Banquo. Killing him would have no doubt won Macbeth more enemies. His greed was the spade he used to ... 3 scenes later conversing with an unnamed lord. In this co...

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... act 1:6 and 7, Macbeth is battling with his conscience and is very confused. He does not want to kill his king because he is afraid of what may happen to him as a consequence. "If th" assassination could trammel up the consequence" At the beginning of 1:7 he talks to himself and considers the points for ... no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition which o"erleaps itself and falls on th" other - Enter Lady Macbeth" Lady Macbeth sways Macbeth's troubled state of mind into comitting the murder by insulting his masculinity and blackmailing him with her love. "What be...

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... Macbeth, "They met me in the day of success; and I have learned by the perfectest report, they have more in them than mortal knowledge." (I, v). He obviously has great faith in the witches' words probably because of the success of the first two. "Two truths were told, as happy prologues to the swelling act of the imperial theme." (I, iii). Later on, when thirsting for ... greater knowledge Macbeth encounters three apparitions, called by the witches. Macbeth misinterprets these also, believing they make him invincible. The first an armed head, Macbeth should have taken great heed of, "be...

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... of many different factors. Between the influences of both the witches and his wife, it is Macbeth's ambition that eventually leads him to his tragic demise. Since the start of the play, Lady Macbeth is shown as an ambitious woman who can manipulate Macbeth very easily. In Act 1, Lady Macbeth states, "That I may pour my spirits in thine ear" (1.5.25), meaning that she wants to ... use her evil influence to convince Macbeth to act against Duncan. Even though she is not the only causing factor, Lady ... wishes that she was 'unsexed' of her feminine qualities so she can murder Duncan herse...

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... the lives and destiny of every single character in the play. Everyone's lives in this play wouldn't have been as drastically changed if it wasn't for the witches and their deceptive fortune telling. Actually, it should be called, "misfortune telling". Ever since Macbeth returned from his battle, he was intrigued by the witche's call that he would soon be King. "All hail ... King hereafter." (I.iii.50). The greed and pre-planning of his future rule was already taking place in Macbeth's mind. Macbeth might have even been able to accept his rule more gracefully if the witches wouldn't have...

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... no-regrets-type woman, but slowly changes into a mass of guilt and confusion by the end of the play. When Lady Macbeth first hears of the Witches" prophecy for her husband, she states that he is too cowardly to do what needs to be done, so she plans the first murder ... here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty (1. 5. 48)." In this line we understand that Lady Macbeth is asking for the traditionally male qualities of ruthlessness, lack of fear, and the means by which hideous crimes may be committed. These passages clearly convey a ... his occasional fits. La...

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... or depravity but by some error or human frailty." Macbeth serves as an example of a tragic hero in Shakespeare's Macbeth due to the fact that his desire for power causes his downfall. Starting from the beginning of the play we see that Macbeth has the potential of wanting to be king, thus having a tragic flaw. In Act one, Scene 1, three witches who in turn contribute ... has that which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem?" (Act 1, Scene 7, 39-41). Thus, she pressures him to commit the act for murder for her own sake and is aware of his ambition to ...

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... he? He changes from what seems good to evil; however, he always has a little piece of evil creeping through his thane-like facade. After the witches speak to him and Macbeth hears of his promotion to Thane of Cawdor, he even then contemplates the murder of Duncan. "My thought, whose murder is yet fantastical, shakes so my single state of man ... that function is smothered in surmise and nothing but what is not ". These tendencies are only thoughts for now, but Macbeth needs some more motivation to get him to believe the prophecy in fanatical fashion. Macbeth finishes the deed and kills ...

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... he will be king, which creates inner turmoil because he later hears Duncan's son Malcolm will be the next king. Consumed by his fury Macbeth constructs a plan to kill Duncan in order for him to be crowned king of Scotland. One is aware of his plan by: " First, as I am his Kinsman and his subject ... , Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderers shut the door, Not bear the knife myself." (Act 1 Sc 7-Li 13-16). In this quote Macbeth ... debates whether he should kill Duncan, he is aware of how murder will open the door to a sinful world. At the same ti...

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... is not something that needs to be questioned, Lady Macbeth makes him feel inadequate by questioning his manhood to the point Macbeth feels he needs to prove himself to her. In Act II Scene II, after Macbeth has murdered Duncan, Lady Macbeth still seems to be unmoved by what they have done. In fact, she chides a shaken Macbeth for being afraid. She even finishes the deed when ... Macbeth refuses. Lady Macbeth acts as if they have nothing to worry about ... believes this, or is just trying to put on a brave face for her husband. In Act II Scene III, the reader is also left to wonder if L...

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... -34. This statement was very true in the case of Macbeth. Although the witches did not directly lead Macbeth into a downfall, they set the mind frame for his actions. Lady Macbeth played a very persuasive role in the downfall of Macbeth. After Macbeth relayed to her the witches" predictions, she strongly encouraged Macbeth to act upon them. Lady Macbeth strongly expected her husband to murder Duncan, against his own judgment ... son, to interfere with the witches" predictions. The downfall of Macbeth was a combination of several factors. Macbeth was given predictions for his life that ra...

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... "is a step/On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap,/For in my way it lies" (Act I, Scene iv, li 48-50). Without the witches' involvement, Macbeth would not be obsessed with his future position as King of Scotland. Macbeth's moral code and loving personality falter under promises of power. When Macbeth is first described by Duncan, he says, "O valiant cousin! Worthy ... gentleman" (Act I, scene ii, li 24). This statement shows Duncan's high respect for Macbeth, and Macbeth's returned honor for Duncan is declared with "Duncan/Hath borne his faculties so meek ... , hath been/So clear i...

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