... because of the position he held. He was a man for whom I held great respect, yet here I was planning his cold-blooded murder! The horror of these thoughts brought me to my senses and I told Lady Macbeth that we would proceed no further in this business. However, my ambition was too great and my will too weak as the words she spoke at ... me the comfort of sleep. My wife told me a little water would clear us of this deed but I could not see how even all Neptune's oceans could wash clean my blood-stained hands. My life had changed. I now had to live with the new man I had become. The man t...

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... the fastest way" for Macbeth to become king is by murdering King Duncan. Lady Macbeth's immediate thoughts may make her appear as thoroughly irreligiously cold and ambitious, but this is not so. To prepare for what she feels must be done she calls on evil spirits to "stop up ... it herself. Unsexed and Uncovered Lady Macbeth progresses throughout the play from a seemingly savage and heartless creature to a very delicate and fragile woman. In the beginning of the play Lady Macbeth manipulates her husband with remarkable effectiveness, overriding all his objections; when he hesitates to mur...

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... me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty!" Lady Macbeth wants to lose her femininity so she can be cold-blooded and commit murder like a man does. However, more than anything, it appears that Lady Macbeth is a very greedy woman, desirous of things that seem ... on securing her place as queen. She looks to the "quickest way" to shorten the pair's path to the throne. Lady Macbeth at this point in the play is quite certainly unaware of what she is getting herself into, having never contemplated anything of this degree before, let alone carried it out, ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School