... formally names his son Malcom as his successor. "Stars, hide your fires; / Let not light see my black and deep desires: / The eye wink at the hand! yet let that be, /" (I, iv, 57-59). Macbeth is vexed at the Duncan's choice of successor and wishes to overleap the situation with murder. No ... the use of soliloquy's that reveal these inner conflicts. MACBETH is imaginative, responsive and as his evil actions continue, increasingly violent. His conscience, on the other hand, before and after the murder of Duncan, is unstable. A further exhibition of conscience can be seen in his nightmares,...

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... to make them seem more mysterious. This would have frightened and alarmed an Elizabethan audience. An example of this in act 1 scene 3 when the witches mysteriously chant; "The weird sisters hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land, Thus do go, about, about, Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, And thrice again to make up nine." Shakespeare may also have ... jealousy which he feels towards Banquo when he exclaims; "Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding." During his rule as...

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... that he is going to be Thane of Cawdor then the king of Scotland. Macbeth is drawn in and is frightened and surprised. Banquo on the other hand is not drawn in at all ands jokily asks them to tell him his future. When they tell him that his children will be kings he is ... She keeps referring back to events on the night of the murder, "To bed: there's knocking at the gate. Come, Come, come, come, give me your hand. What's Done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed." Here Lady Macbeth is referring to when someone knocked at the gate and Lady Macbeth and Macbeth ... the castle and admit...

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... , like starts, shall shine/ On all deservers" (I.iv.39-42). Malcolm, who is known to be of good nature, is thus related to the stars and light. On the other hand, there is Macbeth who wishes to be in the dark to be able to commit his evil acts: "Stars, hide your fires!/ Let not light see my black and deep ... a dark cave around a boiling cauldron. Along with this eerie setting comes the constant rhymes. Indeed, from the beginning, the witches" speeches all rhyme unlike other characters": "The weird sisters, hand in hand,/ Posters of the sea and land,/ Thus do go about, about:/ Thrice to ...

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... increasingly sinister, Macbeth takes actions to remove those in his way, like Banquo, and "the very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand," not caring who he harms and how he harms them. This phrase is brutal in its simplicity; an earlier Macbeth would never have said this. [M] ... 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 conscience. Further into the play...

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... 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 58-62). This shows that he really didn't want to kill Duncan, but ... was convinced by his wife to kill Duncan. Macbeth conscious becomes guilty after he kills Duncan when he said, will all great neptunes ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?(act2 sn2 lines 79-80). He is thinking that nothing can take back the murders...

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... cunning and scheming, as they tell truths about little matters but lie about big matters and tell half-truths - equivocations. He does not trust them, where Macbeth on the other hand does. This is the first instance of Macbeth being a tragic hero in the play, as the audience feel that he should not trust the witches because he doesn't know about ... her every command without any complete. For example when he hasn't washed the blood off his hands, she says, "Go get some water/ And wash this filthy sickness from your hand" He does this straightaway without any reply. In Act3, Scene 1, we ...

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... into guilt induced madness and despair we may still think of her as human. "Here's the smell of blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O." (Act 5 Scene 1 Page 84) It is only later that Lady Macbeth sees the full consequences of the king's murder and her guilty conscience takes over. She realises the she had ... to gain the power which Macbeth and she so eagerly wanted, afterwards she regrets what she and her husband did. She has hallucinations involving the blood she had on her hand after she had wiped the daggers on the guards faces. Lady Macbe...

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... complete her task. "Your face, my thane is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, look like the time; bear welcome in your eye. Your hand, out tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't." In this quote, said by Lady Macbeth she is explaining to her husband that if he wishes to ... attempt to remove King Duncan's imaginary blood from her hands. She also says "Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand" This is clearly because she cannot get the experience off of her mind. Her conscie...

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... 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 him and talks to it. Here, Macbeth does not ... ...

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... obviously a dangerous thing for them both. The most relevant quote is when she tells Macbeth to maintain a good public image- "Look like the time, bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue, look like th" innocent flower, But be the serpent under't" (Act 1 Scene 5 Lines 63 and 64) She is saying to Macbeth that he should be evil and calculating ... ...

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... tells him that he has to hide his inner feelings and not show them on the outside. "Your face, my Thane, is a book where men May read strange matters." "Your hand, your tongue; look like th" innocent flower, But be the serpent under't. She is telling him here that he has to be kind and innocent in outward appearance, but mentally ... ...

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