... escalated into a massacre of people. Shakespeare's depiction of women in this play shows how manipulating they can become when they lack physical strength. Both the witches and Lady Macbeth played key roles in shaping Macbeth into a power hungry tyrant. But the blame for the murders cannot be places solely on one person for each one was guilty in their own way ... the power for herself and her husband. We see how badly she wanted this when she prays to the spirits to "unsex her" and to "stop up the access and passage to remorse" so that they could follow through with this cruel act. She...

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... is the only option they have left. Three features we have seen stand out clear in the general conception of Macbeth. There is his eminently practical nature, which is the key to the whole. And the absence in him of the inner life adds two special features: one is his helplessness under suspense, the other is the activity of his imagination ... it (Shakespeare, Act 1, Scene III). She is telling him that his face can easily be read and that he needs to act like normal, but underneath to be cunning. This passage takes an almost cheery moment and takes it back to a world full of betrayal. A...

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