... 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 stand up to cheer and rejoice in a "womanly ... proper burial, Antigone will stop at nothing. "I will bury him myself. And even if I die in the act, that death will be a glory an outrage sacred to the gods! I have longer to please the dead than to please the living here" (Antigone, 85-89). While Lady Macbeth possessed the ... plotting with Macbeth over the ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... hide your fires;/Let not light see my black and deep desires."" He also proceeds to say immediately after, "The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be/Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see,"" which means that Macbeth is concerned with what will become of his soul ... , 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'...

• Word Count: 1270
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate