... wise, amazed, temperate and furious, / Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man. / The expedition on my violent love / Outrun the pauser, reason Who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart / courage to make's love known?" This charade put on by Macbeth is an attempt to explain his unreasonable execution of the guards. In actuality, Macbeth killed them so ... pious rage the two delinquents tear, That were the slaves of drink and thralls of sleep? / Was not that nobly done? Aye, and wisely too; / For "twould have angered any heart alive / To hear the men deny't." Lennox a...

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... she is so sure Macbeth should kill Duncan. We also see how Lady Macbeth's influence has rubbed off on Macbeth, as he says 'False face must hide what the false heart doth know', which is very similar to Lady Macbeth's words of the 'innocent flower' earlier. All in all, in act 1 we see how Lady Macbeth has a power over Macbeth, she ... the play. When he visits the witches, he is told by them that 'Great Birnam Wood' will come against him. Macbeth replies 'from this moment the very firstlings of my heart shall be', implying that the first thought that enters his mind he will act on without...

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... es have told him none of women born shall hurt him. Yet he decides to Macbeth and his family just to make sure Macduff will not hurt him. When the attack on Macduff and his house comes, he is not there, however his family, servants, and property are slain and destroyed. When Macduff receives word of this he decides to challenge ... Macbeth, although just a fictitious play, can have real meaning in life for society today. It is better to listen to one's heart, than to listen to one's mind. The mind tells us what we truly want, but it is the heart that stops individuals from becoming gree...

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... looking down on them they would figure out no leader, no money. Sounds good. Battle's over right. No. It seems that Sweno, King of Norway, figured he could mount a second attack with fresh men; but Macbeth and Banquo fought like men possessed ("cannons overcharged with double cracks") Now the bloody whatever is too pooped to continue, so Duncan ever concerned with ... sons only. (Can you imagine how scary her daughters might be if she had them?) He agrees that the king will die and "False face must hide what the false heart doth know." See how cleverly Shakespeare gets Macbeth's last li...

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... my own, and yet another of my once great friends fell. Upon Banquo's death, my fears were eased for a while, but I then heard that Fleance, his son, had escaped the attack and so the threat of him being crowned king remained. This haunted me endlessly, most of all on the evening of the banquet. The horror of the deeds I had initiated ... . What if by some miracle you are not of woman born? I have seen stranger things recently! Then I will hold on to the only thing I have left: I am still a warrior at heart and I will stand again you and fight until the last drop of blood in my body and d...

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... , The instruments of darkness tell us truths." The fact that he did not want to compromise his own honour to gain more honour shows a strong character who is good at heart.The audience know this because he says to Macbeth, who is testing Banquo's allegiance in his support of Macbeth, "So I lose none In seeking to augment it, but still keep ... large a part in the play, but are also portrayed as heroes and good men are the other lords, who include Ross and Angus, who join Malcolm and Macduff in the attack against Macbeth at the end of the play. The mysterious Old Man is also portrayed as ...

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