... 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 metamorphosis begins almost immediately after he receives the prediction from the witches. When two servants of King Duncan ... arrive to tell Macbeth that he has been named Thane of Cawdor, he comments on how the first two of the three predictions have come true just ... as the witches said they would. ...

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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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• Grade Level: High School