... Macbeth himself agrees that " "T was a rough night" (II.iii.57). So if the weather even worries the murderer himself, it must mean that it was truly an illustration of the evilness of the deed. The fact that such a great warrior, and killer of men, is so lost in terrifying guilt indicates the full extent of the evil he has committed. Nature thus foreshadows or exhibits a particular evil that ... as good and evil. It is important to acknowledge the fact that both Duncan's and Banquo's murder takes place in the dark. The latter notices, on the night of the king's death, that the stars are...

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... form him into a typical malcontent character. In defining the malcontent from the Shakespearean era, Christine Gomez writes that "The malcontent mood in late Elizabethan and Jacobean drama may be traced to the political, economic, social and intellectual conditions of the age."1 Politically, Hamlet feels left down and put aside for the crown. Claudius assures himself the crown by murdering the King while Hamlet is away at Wittenberg. Not only ... is going through Hamlet objectifies his position. Hamlet feels that even if these men are perfect in every other way that this flaw will be th...

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