... is foul, and foul is fair" (I.i.10). This could foreshadow Macbeth's future connection to the witches, the dark forces, and eventually, his place in fate. Also, this line foreshadows Macbeth's future feelings and self-conflict when he is thinking about killing the King, because of the contradictory nature of these ... his morals. Also, because of the war between good and evil going on inside Macbeth's mind, his mental stability cracks and he starts hallucinating. In the courts of his castle, Macbeth is by himself thinking about killing King Duncan, when he starts hallucinating and sees...

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... his soul could never be cleansed no matter what he did. He said They pluck out mine own eyes!/Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood/Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather/The Multitudinous seas incarnadine, /Making the green one red (act II, scene iii, l ... and the "tomorrow and tomorrow" speech. Scotland makes accusations through Banquo's soliloquy and the nobles speaking of Macbeth in act five proving their beliefs of murder. The entire country believes he is covered in blood yet the reader is the only one who understands his reactions towards the deeds he has commi...

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... killing the king. The superstitious opening of the play immediately implies doom and tragedy, and the audience would associate the witches with evil, as I said in the last paragraph. There would always be an undertone of evil beneath Macbeth following this association. I think that as they continuously pump ideas into his head ... but as soon as she gets the information it starts going through the cogs in her mind. She is cold about the whole thing, and says to herself about how Macbeth is not strong enough and too kind to murder in cold blood, and she hoes through what she will have to ...

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... concludes that "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 th' access ... father as he slept, I had done't" the murder herself. Her conscience is trying to rid itself of the guilt by her "washing her hands" of the imagined blood. Macbeth, on the other hand, seems to do the exact reverse of Lady Macbeth. He begins as "the bravest soldier" with a good, clear con...

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... influenced. Macbeth puts power into the hands of Lady Macbeth by letting her arrange Duncan's murder. "Will it not be received, / When we have mark"d with blood those sleepy two / Of his own chamber, and used their very daggers, / That they have done't?" (I, vii, 82-85). Macbeth agrees with the plan ... reappears and Macbeth goes ballistic, saying, "Avaunt, and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee!/ Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold;/ Thou hast no speculation in those eyes/ Which thou dost glare with!"(III.iv.114-118) Lady Macbeth again says that Macbeth is ill, so the guests...

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... after seeing Banquo's ghost and cries; "Avaunt and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with." Witches were thought to have allowed the Devil to suck their blood in exchange for an evil servant or a "familiar" such as: a bird, beast or reptile. This is displayed ... in the first scene, where the witches mention their "beasts"; "I come, Graymalkin. "Paddock calls." It was supposed that witches could predict the future ... murdering Duncan. This may be because she wants her husban...

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... murder. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth act very innocent and no one suspects them and suspicion is hanging over the guards because Lady Macbeth had covered them in blood the night and rested the daggers next to them before so Macbeth had them put to death. Duncan's sons, Malcolm and Donalbain had fled to ... again and Macbeth exclaims at the ghost, "Avaunt! And quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare" This is showing that Macbeth is trying to convince himself that this ghost of Banquo is no...

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... she herself would kill her own child rather then back down. This is a very powerful image, and further increases her mask of cold ambition, also suggesting more links in Lady Macbeth's mind between femininity and kindness, which she seems to think is the truth. Her manipulation is again, effective. She fills ... him with pride, and using that, suggests a seemingly easy way of dispatching the King in his sleep, and blaming the murder on the guards. Macbeth applauds her, and quickly psyches himself towards the task, steeling himself to put on a false ... a sign of weakness on Lady Macbeth'...

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