... the three witches' prophecies of Macbeth becoming king. "Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty." (Macbeth, I, v, 47-50) Immediately, Lady Macbeth begins to stand out of the "feminist norms". After hearing of her husband becoming king, she does not ... Lady Macbeth is plotting with Macbeth over the execution of their evil deed, her sinister, evil qualities are shown once again. "Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, Ar...

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... Duncan so they can elevate their positions to become monarchs. Soon after she manipulates him further when he has doubts by emasculating him as a 'coward' who is 'too full o' the milk of human kindness'. Macbeth is distraught by the impending murder and when Duncan arrives, it is Lady Macbeth who greets him, prompting the king to question: Where is ... a 'dead butcher'. Ultimately, Macbeth's attempts to secure his own passage to the throne and to remain 'safely thus' are no more than 'a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury' – a point reinforced when M...

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... something far more precious that temporal goods. His being has shrunk to such little measure that he has lost his former sensitiveness to good and evil; he has supped so full with horrors and the disposition of evil is so fixed in him that nothing can start him. His conscience is numbed so that he escapes the domination of fears, and ... are fashioned; it is endowed by the dramatist with an astonishing abundance and variety of potentialities. And it is upon the development of these potentialities that the artist lavishes the full energies of his creative powers. Under the influence of s...

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... really shows no signs of dignity, even when he is near death. He continues to descend into darkness, and even describes himself appropriately to Seyon in (V, v, 11-18): " I have supped full with horrors./Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,/Cannot once start me."" Macbeth, a few lines later, is also aware of his forthcoming demise: "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player/That ... struts and frets his hour upon the stage/And then is heard no more. It is a tale/Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/Signifying nothing."" Macbeth knows that his "play,"" or his life, is ne...

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... to see her true character straight away revealing her cruel and cold nature. She is determined to persuade Macbeth to act on the supernatural prophecies knowing his nature "Is too full o'th'milk of human kindness- and any sympathy the audience may have is directed towards Macbeth rather than his wife. She, too, is intensely ambitious, and cannot bear to even ... less ready to consider secondary matters such as her conscience than Macbeth. She embraces the spirits saying "Unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty."" The word crown' gives the idea of...

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... do it, then you were a man." Despite Macbeth's warrior status, he believes killing Duncan is a subhuman act and "who dares do more is none." Macbeth is too full of 'human kindness', yet is a loyal husband who feels that he must prove himself as a man, which allows Lady Macbeth to use her mental strength to associate the act ... ...

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