... starts hallucinating. In the courts of his castle, Macbeth is by himself thinking about killing King Duncan, when he starts hallucinating and sees a dagger to which he respond with, "Is this a dagger I see before me, The handle towards my hand? Come, let me clutch thee" (II.i.33-34). In this part of the scene, Macbeth believes he sees a dagger before ... important. Also that he has already killed so many, so it would be just as hard to go back to being good as it would be to continue with the murders. Here, Macbeth is implying that he does not want to stop his quest, and will continue t...

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... My genius is rebuk"d" Macbeth states here that when Banquo is out of the way then his path is clear for him and Lady Macbeth. Macbeth is becoming more evil the further we go through the play. Later on in the scene Macbeth lets Lady Macbeth know that something bad is going to happen but ... that Macbeth is trying to convince himself that this ghost of Banquo is not really there so it cannot hurt him. He also tries to command the ghost to go away. This is a very graphic speech because it really shows us what I s going on inside Macbeths mind we see how he attempts to be brave. ... After L...

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... it is Macbeth who listens to her demands. "This night's great business into my dispatch; / Which shall to all our nights and days to come / Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom" (I, v, 75-77). Macbeth could have told his Lady to stop her plans. Instead, he lets himself be influenced. Macbeth ... other hand, is the total opposite Macbeth says strange things about his bloody hands and doesn't think rationally. He forgot to place the daggers in the drunken guards hands and refused to go back. Lady Macbeth fearlessly grabs the daggers and returns them. Lady Macbeth doesn't seem to have m...

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... are; "Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him." Macbeth's confidence in the Witches" protecting his power has been strengthened by the predictions of the first and second apparitions. The prediction of the third apparition confirms his confidence; Macbeth is positive that moving ... by summoning spirits to make her stronger in order to perform this sinister act. In the 5th scene of act 1, Lady Macbeth says; "Come, spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here." These words mean that Lady Macbeth wants the spirits to t...

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... end of the play when Macduff came back to murder Macbeth. Macbeth would never have guessed that Macduff would come back for revenge for the killing in Macduff's household. This nemesis shows an additional force beyond Macbeth's control. Because of Macbeth's strong beliefs in ambition and the witches, when he found out Macduff ... Lady Macbeth manipulated his mind to think the right thing to do was kill Duncan. Macbeth had decided in order to prove his manhood he must go through with this horrible act. After Macbeth had committed the crime he felt that his soul could never be cleansed no ...

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... to the calling of his execution. The King later thanks Macbeth for his performance in the battle. The King was overwrought with worry. The prophesy of the Kings death to come by the witches reach Macbeth's wife. Lady Macbeth wanting her husband to be full of power planned to kill the king. She knew her husband was to full of the ... he still has the daggers. Frustrated Lady Macbeth goes to place the blood from the daggers on the King's sleeping servant's rooms and to place the daggers back with the King. They exit back to their quarters. The next morning Macduff and Lennox go to wake th...

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... soliloquy. Macbeth thinks about taking the prophecies into his own hands to become King. However, while he is thinking about this, I still believe that he wouldn't go as far as to actually turn his thoughts into actions, as he is too afraid. The use of sibilance when he says, "Shakes my single state of ... seems to be mentally weaker than his wife, she is the stronger one of the two. While Macbeth is suffering form a breakdown, she is pulling him back together, and seems to have complete control over him because he is so afraid, he doesn't know what to do. He follows her every command wit...

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... the heat oppressed brain? The dagger disappears but his thoughts of murder continue. He tells himself that he has to be bold and sure about what he is about to do. He has to go about the murder carefully, meaningfully and without a single doubt in his mind. "Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design ... Moves like a ghost." A bell rings and Macbeth is signalled to go and murder Duncan. Scene two starts with Lady Macbeth awaiting the return Macbeth. She has made the guards drunk and set-up an easy entrance for him. She hears...

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• Grade Level: High School