... order to get what she wants and she would never break a promise; "How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, and dash'd his brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to ... They should be happy, but they are far from it. Once crowned, Macbeth rises in power as his wife descends in it. All affection is lost at this point in the play. Meanwhile Macbeth plans the murder of Banquo and, unlike the killing of Duncan, leaves her outside the plot: "Be ... innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuc...

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... him a coward before showing a truly monstrous side to herself when telling MacBeth what she would be capable of doing to her own child "Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out " MacBeth is impressed and persuaded by this final statement and we realize that Lady MacBeth ... capable of cutting a man "from the nave to th' chops " but he is now faced with terrifying guilt about killing Duncan which only emphasises the true evil of the deed he has committed. Lady MacBeth however does not share our sympathy with MacBeth, although she persuaded him to commit mur...

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... Duncan? Is she, like Macbeth just an ordinary human being overcome with ambition? Does she really lose her womanliness? Do the words(Act I, Sc. ii) "Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't" imply that she is still a woman with a woman's tendernesss? Does she show herself strong willed and more determined than Macbeth, Act ... her when she makes his consent to murder a test of his love? Is she being cynical when she inverts logic and reality in asking him if he is afraid to be what he wants to be and in suggesting that to be a true man he must take what he wants? Must sh...

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Macbeth "If Chance will have me king, why Chance may crown me Without my stir." Discuss how this quotation relates to the themes expressed in the text of Macbeth? It wasn't fate that guided Macbeth's course, ... However, the witches weren't able to directly control Macbeth's actions and had no real power to ensure their predictions came true. In Act I Scene III, one of the witches says "Though his bark cannot be lost, Yet it shall be tempest-tossed." The quote means that although the witches were unable to sink a sailor's ship ... had decided against the deed. Lady Macbeth immeadietly appeale...

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Macbeth "If Chance will have me king, why Chance may crown me Without my stir." Discuss how this quotation relates to the themes expressed in the text of Macbeth? It wasn't fate that guided Macbeth's course, ... However, the witches weren't able to directly control Macbeth's actions and had no real power to ensure their predictions came true. In Act I Scene III, one of the witches says "Though his bark cannot be lost, Yet it shall be tempest-tossed." The quote means that although the witches were unable to sink a sailor's ship ... had decided against the deed. Lady Macbeth immeadietly appeale...

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... made themselves, and that their fitness now does unmake you. I have given suck, and know how tender "tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this" , ... hereafter!" , this is how Macbeth's journey into inevitable darkness began, when he was led to believe that since some of the witches predictions have some true then he might be destined to fulfill the rest. "Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor . If chance will have me king, why, chanc...

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... author's use of characterization, Macbeth is shown spiraling into paranoia and fear, induced by his ambition, "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition". Macbeth fluctuates between moments of action, in which he will go to any lengths to secure his throne, and moments ... answer to continue to cover up Macbeths' wrong doings, lest he lose everything he has worked for. Lady Macbeth's initial influence on Macbeth exposes his true side of evil, and as the plot develops he no longer relies on his "dearest chuck", as she can no longer support him. ... It is ...

• Word Count: 882
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate