... of wolf, Witches' mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark, Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark, Liver of blaspheming Jew, Gall of goat, and slips of yew Silver'd in the moon's eclipse, Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips, Finger of birth-strangled babe Ditch-deliver'd by a drab, Make the gruel thick and slab: Add thereto a tiger's chaudron, For ... concerned with the Craft of Living well in harmony with Nature, and with the Magick of the Earth, in the seasons and cycles and in the things we make with hand and Mind" (Buckland pgL2). Dr. Buckland also states "the charge of Devil worsh...

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... " Who can be wise, amazed, temp"rate and furious, loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man. The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason. Here lay Duncan, his silver skin laced with his golden blood, and his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature for ruin's wasteful entrance: there, the murderers, steeped in the color of their daggers unmannerly ... wife " Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, tell thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night, scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, and with thy bloody and invisible hand cancel and tear to pieces that great bond" ...

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... towards others. When "hands" is first used in Act I, it is meant to project a sense of familial unity. The witches chant, "The weird sisters, hand in hand,/ Posters of the sea and land./ thus do go about, about." (I.iii.32-34) The three witches, we are told, are sisters; this is one ... to project an acknowledgement of the kinship that exists between Macbeth and Duncan. "To beguile the time,/ Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,/ your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,/ but be the serpent under't" (I.v.63-66) Expressions and gestures using "hands" seem amicable i...

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... contrast each other to represent this battle and make it clearer to see. This play is all about darkness, murder and evil, and they all tie hand in hand. Shakespeare shows what a man consumed by darkness can do to an entire kingdom and himself. The second from of imagery used is that of blood, ... . He is developing a guilty conscience although he has not yet committed the murder. "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"(II, ii, 64-67) shows that Macbeth feels the a great ...

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... fear and guilt. When he was hesitating about killing the king, the floating dagger appeared in front of him with the handle pointed towards his hand. This was a sign which prompted Macbeth to proceed with the murder and caused great anxiety and confusion to him. "Art thou not, fatal ... see the inchoate destruction of his conscience, as well as the foreshadowing of chaos and disorder. After committing the murder, the real blood he saw on his hand and the guilt within his mind caused him to experience more hallucinations. "Methought I heard a voice cry, 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does m...

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... er-leap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand"" In this soliloquy Macbeth starts wondering if murder is the only way in which he can achieve the kingship. His ambition overcomes his finer nature. He ... black" desires come out, and he thinks the murder is too evil to be seen. Macbeth's image of the eyes' winking upon the work of the hand is expressive both of his intense hatred to the deed and of his intense desire to gain what the deed will accomplish. At the same time his ... point at which he is fascinat...

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... him to take charge and make the prophecies reality. Macbeth does not like being ridiculed by his wife. She dictates a plan to him before he has a chance to disagree. Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, but the serpent under it. He that's coming must be provided for: and you shall put this night's great business into my dispatch ... Duncan, he is worried that he will not be able to clean his hands of Duncan's telltale blood. 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 gre...

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... bloody child, "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth" (IV, I) held a hidden clue which Macbeth missed. The third a child crowned with a tree in his hand, "Macbeth shall never vanquish"d be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him" (IV, I) also held a hidden clue, and was vague, ... it did not say how the wood would move. After these three apparitions comes a vision of eight kings each holding a glass is his hand, and the ghost of Banquo following, the line of kings prophesised. In all of the apparitions Macbeth should have paid attention to the images that s...

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... she will never escape the guilt consuming her over these deaths, saying "here's the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand" (V.I.53-55). This statement is very similar to how Macbeth copes with the death of Duncan when he says "all great Neptune's ocean" (II.II.78) could ... not wash the [Duncan's] blood from his hand. Both at different points feel as if they are unable to evade the blood from their murders while their spouse feels the opposite. Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth "my hands ... transformation. He turns from a content, good man to ...

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... , is so deplorable that the natural order is inverted: an old man is astonished that Duncan's horses 'ate each other'. Under his reign, Scotland becomes 'a suffering country under a hand accursed', a sure sign of his evil. For these crimes, done of his own volition, Macbeth, and we, cannot blame the witches. Lady Macbeth is absent from the opening scenes of ... of Duncan, Lady Macbeth is the one who instructs him mercilessly to 'consider it not so deeply', to 'get some water, and wash this filthy witness from your hand'. Her ability to dissemble is palpable when she f...

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... I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires; The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see." (I.iv. 48-53) Macbeth is perturbed and confused to why he is not chosen to ... . He attempts to reach out to grab the dagger, but finds that he cannot grab it, he is appalled:"Is this a dagger which I before me,/ The handle toward my hand? ... A dagger of the mind, a false creation,/ Proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain?" (II,i, 33-39) Although Macbeth acts horrified of...

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... persisted in the face of this awareness, demonstrated a profound moral disorder.15 "Stars, hide your fires! Let now light see my black and deep desires: the eye wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see." In a few instances, Macbeth believed he could defy nature. For example, he tried to justify making ... throne. In another, Macbeth readily threatened Fate to fight him to the death, "Rather than so, come Fate into the list, and champion me to th"utterance." On the other hand, Shakespeare showed that the defenders of righteousness were associated wit...

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... will have to put on the appropriate expression and look innocent so that nobody suspects him. "To beguile the time, look like the time, bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under't." When Duncan arrives Lady Macbeth suddenly becomes this two-faced, deceitful creature imaginable. She praises and commends Duncan ... tells her husband to go and wash the blood off his hands and return the daggers to Duncan's room. "Go, get some water, and wash this filthy witness from your hand. -Why did you bring these daggers from the place? Th...

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... night while Duncan is a guest in his castle, Macbeth begins to hallucinate. He sees a dagger before him and speaks: "Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell, that summons thee to heaven or to hell". At ... , Macbeth realizes that he will never be able to forget what he had done this night and speaks; "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas in incarnadine, making the green one r...

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... himself, ?They hailed [Banquo] father to a line of kings. Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown And put a barren scepter in my gripe, Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding? (lines 64 -68). His believes that his only choice now is to kill Banquo and Fleance. He is trying to stop the prophecy. In scene ... to fear from Macduff, and also plans to kill him, just to insure that the prophecy does not come true. The third apparition arises: a child crowned, with a tree in his hand. The third apparition then gives Macbeth the third prophesy: "Be lion-mettle...

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... assassinating the king, his wife assuages his fears with aspirations of royalty. She instills her ideals of disloyalty in him. She describes to Macbeth how he must be devious. "Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, /But be the serpent under't." (Act I, Scene v) Lady Macbeth instructs her husband to appear loyal and trustworthy in his actions and his words ... he will seem inculpable. During Macbeth's dagger soliloquy, he is overcome with a false vision, as the following quotation supports: "Is this a dagger which I see before me, / The handle toward my hand? Come, let m...

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... found sleepwalking and talking to herself after the murders of both Duncan and Banquo. "Here's the smell of blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." Also, the imagery of blood is present with the witches, or "weird sisters" as they are referred to in the play. It is most evident in the scene where Macbeth ... able to cleanse his hands of the blood that stains them. "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No- Next, the image of blood is portrayed when Macbeth calls upon the "bloody and invisible hand" of night to help the mur...

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"If one abuses or neglects internal powers, external forces will act accordingly."-T.F Hodge. This quote illustrates the concept of both internal and external forces working hand in hand to produce an outcome. The play Macbeth, Shakespeare depicts the similar idea that both internal and external forces lead to Macbeth's downfall. This idea can be illustrated through Macbeth's fearful ... ...

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... the new title. Thinking to himself he states, "Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown/ And put a barren scepter in my grip,/ Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand,/ No son of mine succeeding. If 't be so,/ For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind." (III, I, 66-70) This quote conveys Macbeth worrisome feeling that if the crown is ... sees his "death." Macbeth speaks to Lennox in a distressed tone and says,"From this moment/ the very firstlings of my heart shall be/ the firstlings of my hand" (IV, i, 166-177) In this quote, Macbeth asserts that moving forward he will act on what ...

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... night to take away Banquo's life, because Banquo makes Macbeth "pale" with fear, "Come, sealing night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! " (3.2.50) In scenes after the Ghost of Banquo has ruined Macbeth's banquet Macbeth asks his wife "What is ... odds with morning, which is which" (3.4.125-126). Then Macbeth states his intention to continue his bloody course of action, and says,  "Strange things I have in head, that will to hand; which must be acted ere they may be scann'd" (3.4...

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... , the voice of the witches' prophecy impels him to murder Banquo as he serves as interference to his desire to be king. He states that "with [his] bloody and invisible hand " (3.2.50), he shall "cancel and tear to pieces that great bond " (3.2.51). This indicates that Macbeth's willingness to break the great bond between him and Banquo to get what he ... never undo what has been done with the evidence of guilt expressed in his actions as he asks Neptune, "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash [the] blood clean from [his] hand? "(2.2. 61-62). Macbeth's superego appears whenever he utters hi...

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... crimes. This causes him to go into a paranoid state and make bad decisions. After the murder, Macbeth asks himself if "great Neptune's ocean [will] wash this blood clean from [his] hand." (2.2.77-78). Macbeth is already feeling guilt towards Duncan's death and doesn't know whether the guilt on his hands will ever wash away. This guilt and remorse lowers his morale ... . Macbeth proves that he has this condition at many points in the play. During a soliloquy, Macbeth says "How is't with me when every noise appals me? ...No, this my hand will rather/The multitudinous seas incarnadine,Makin...

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... true. One doesn't have to look any further than Shakespeare's other great tragedies such as Othello to see that a classical tragedy needs neither moral nor underlying message. On the other hand, Macbeth, by many has always been seen as deviating from classical tragedy. While in the beginning both a tragic and moralistic interpretation of the play can be upheld, in the post ... are wound up in the quick paced "snowball" effect of Macbeth's impending doom. The audience feels his fear and anxiety and experience it for themselves. They get to witness first hand what fear can do to a person;...

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... use to ruin Farfrae "illegal or legal. To this Henchard answered, "By fair competition I mean of course."" (Page 179) Similarly, when Henchard asked Farfrae for a duel, Henchard tied his hand to his side to make the fight even, an indication of his honor. In contrast, Macbeth acted with honor when no more efficient choice appeared. He killed Duncan in complete ... my fury that I did kill them."" (II, iii) Macbeth did not learn from his error and correct it; instead, he fell deeper into his own lie. Henchard, on the other hand, learned from the mistakes he made during his life. After he ...

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... , quoted above, to Mac Beth's despairing "to-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow (v, v, 19) dirge, to Mac duff's triumphant entry with Mac Beth's severed head clutched firmly in his hand and his cry, "The time is free-(v, viii, 55). There is something conspiratorial about the opening of the play: we discover these hags as they end a cabal and plan their ... his better judgment and afterward stews in guilt and paranoia. Toward the end of the play he descends into a kind of frantic, boastful madness. Lady Mac Beth, on the other hand, pursues her goals with greater determination, yet she i...

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