... she gave it unto her husband..." (Genesis 3.6). Eve, out of fear, beguiled Adam. In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and the witches, succumbing to greed, corrupted Macbeth. Lady Macbeth's actions parallel those of the witches. The witches planted the idea that Macbeth should become king. Lady Macbeth followed through with this idea by pushing Macbeth to kill Duncan. "... a very definition of the weird sisters - calling on them to unsex ... liberty of free choice is determined more and more by evil inclination and that he can not choose the better course..." (Bloom 55). Even after the deed is done...

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... It is these actions that allow both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth to suffer severe consequences. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, the imagery of blood is employed to employed to emphasized both Macbeth's and Lady Macbeth's state of guilt. This is significant because it enables the reader to understand the ultimate downfall of both characters. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth guilt is apparent when Macbeth kills the king (Duncan), hallucinates over Banquo ... 's ghost and Lady Macbeth's inability to sleep. Blood represents guilt, as it is a significant form of imagery in the play. Blood also represents murde...

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... - peaceful loyalty, cold-blooded murder, and hateful revenge v/s which, in the end, gradually replace their original behavior with their antithesis. In the early scenes, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth believe in different sets of morals. A Loyal Thane of Cawdor, Macbeth, in Lady Macbeth's words, is "too full othmilk of human kindness to catch the nearest way." (23) He is too decent and squeamish to murder Duncan for ... complex emotion and fear that stands out from the rest of the story, and provides a hint to the upcoming tragedies and transformation of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth's character. ...

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... And though she does not openly exercise her power over him in public, in private she often uses humiliation and emotional bribery to manipulate Macbeth to execute her will. Lady Macbeth is not a typical woman of Shakespearean time in this play. In that time a woman would just be at home cooking, cleaning ... and looking after the children. They wouldn"t have an active role in public life. However Shakespeare has created Lady Macbeth as untraditional. She talks to Macbeth about his problems, insults him, doubts his honor and courage. A woman might have been badly beaten for saying somethi...

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... audience to think badly of her. But after this scene people may begin to feel sorry for Lady Macbeth. To understand why the audience may feel this way towards Lady Macbeth we have to go back to earlier acts in the play. The audience believe that Lady Macbeth is evil as she wants to kill King Duncan in order for her to gain power as her ... to kill Duncan she would still get the same punishment as Macbeth. Until act 5 scene 1 Macbeth has been tormented with visions, nightmares and disturbances in his sleep while Lady Macbeth scolds him for his weakness. Now the audience witnesses the way...

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... in order to meet his fate or was it inevitable that certain things would occur? A third and final question that persisted throughout the play was the uncertainty of Lady Macbeth's feelings towards the murders. Did Lady Macbeth's guilt lead to compassion for the victims, thus showing that she did indeed have a conscience or was she purely evil, feeling no remorse at all throughout the ... should not murder Duncan, describing his loyalty and appreciation for the king. Lady Macbeth bluntly states that Duncan must be murdered and tells Macbeth that the murder is a test of his manhood, leavi...

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... is someone and something else, other than the witches that motivates him. Lady Macbeth and ambition, are both the other causes that lead Macbeth to change his plans. When Lady Macbeth finds out about the witches prophecy for Macbeth, she gets herself prepared to convince Macbeth. "Come you spirits that tend on the mortal thoughts, unsex me ... here and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty. Make my blood thick"" (Shakespeare 32). Lady Macbeth is willing to do anything to be the queen. Lady Macbeth's ambition will be strong enough to make her husband do the "deed "....

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... Not only is this important because it contains the murderous act, it also conveys to the audience the rapid disintegration of the relationship between the two main characters, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. In act 2, scene 2, the murder of Duncan takes place. The audience should be on the edge of their seats by now, wondering if ... side. She says that she would have killed Duncan herself, but the old man looked too much like her father. This small reminder of Lady Macbeth's humanity will be important to our understanding of what happens to her at the end of the play. As she waits she decides...

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... darkness. Nature behaves in frightening and strange ways in the play. In the first act, Lady Macbeth reads a letter that Macbeth wrote her. He tells her in the letter that he is now the thane of Cawdor. Then, the messenger tells Lady Macbeth that king Duncan is coming to her castle. At that point, Lady Macbeth invites "darkness" and evil to come live in her. She wants ... Macbeth to kill Duncan, so he can become the kind of Scotland. Macbeth tells her no, that he can't kill Duncan, because he has been good ... the daggers from him, to go smear the servants with the blood, so it appears...

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... and evil is the driving force behind the play and are both present throughout but one dominates as the play develops. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth both have good and evil within them but it is evil that usually conquered over good. When Lady Macbeth pushed Macbeth to murder Duncan, her "evil" side was conquering his "good" side. In this way evil triumphed over good. Throughout the ... out as good but soon became filled with evil which dominated his character and then made him obsessed with greed and power. Because of greed, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth want more power. Throughout the play their...

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... the play. Another example of bloods use as a symbol was Act 2, Scene ii. The symbol of blood was now used to show deceit and betrayal. Lady Macbeth starts this off when she asks the spirits to "Make thick my blood." What she is saying by this is that she wants to make herself numb ... says "Smear the sleepy grooms withe blood." and "If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, for it must seem their guilt." Lady Macbeth doesn't know that blood would become her worst enemy, in the long run, so as a reader we could kind of foreshadow, what would happen here on in ... "Out damn...

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... not keeping his word. She says that she would kill her own child if she had promised to. In these two ways, Lady Macbeth equates violence and dependability with masculinity. Lady Macbeth controls and manipulates her husband throughout the play in many situations, but she still maintains a shred of femininity. She expresses her desire to become "unsexed" so she can commit the ... a less violent place if more women were in power. The bottom line in this play is that the witches and Lady Macbeth, all women, are responsible for the provocation of all the events in this play. Certainly, the...

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... . Once they plant these thoughts in his head, he is taken over by this other. His transformation is obvious by the end of the play. MacBeth displays traditionally feminine characteristics, such as irrationality and emotional outbursts. Lady MacBeth must help him commit the murders because he cannot think straight and he is accused of being like a woman because he does not have the ... acting on the thoughts brought about because of the witches. They do not overtly try to corrupt MacBeth, as does Lady MacBeth. Lady MacBeth is a dangerous character because she is intelligent and she can ou...

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... example of the darker connotation to the word. After receiving Macbeth's letter, she reflects, "Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief. Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes" (I.v.57-59). Lady Macbeth is inviting night into her life, which is to ask for ... evil to wash over her. Prior to this quote, Lady Macbeth asks for the spirits to "Make thick my blood. Stop up th' access and passage to remorse" (I.v.50 ... -51). In this monologue, she is asking the spirits to take away all feeling a...

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... push of his wife, he murders the king to come into power. In this play Shakespeare uses Lady Macbeth to show that ambitious, lying, manipulative people don't finish first, to say the least. Lady Macbeth was a severely manipulative and deceitful character. It is shown throughout the play that, to further her ... his fingers, who plots evil with deceit in his heart-- he always stirs up dissension." This explains that deceitful people stir up trouble. Lady Macbeth's deceit extends even to the murder of the king. Her ambition clouded the soon to be Kings mind, because of her ambition, into t...

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... , she immediately wished for Duncan's death, in order to become queen herself. She was the first to decide that Duncan must die and even thoroughly planned out the murder. Lady Macbeth readily seduced Macbeth to the idea of killing Duncan by mockingly accusing him of being "too full o' th' milk of human kindness". (Shakespeare 1.5.6) She is telling him that he is ... too charitable to murder King Duncan and that he has to stand up like a man. However, after successfully committing the murder, Macbeth had a feeling of guilt and could not enjoy "his kingly state". (MOE, Par. 2) Lady Macbet...

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... taste. Shakespeare believed that the society which he lived in placed to much trust in the gender roles which they themselves had erected and used Lady macbeth's transgression from them as a warning against the ignorance that came with belief without reason. Throughout history women have been selected as the weaker sex ... understandings rob this theme of its greatest affect. Our modern understandings of gender change our perception of the themes Shakespeare was attempting to create through Lady Macbeth. In the present day, one of the strongest values upheld by our society is that of equ...

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... , and Kurosawa's took place in a feudal Japanese castle and surrounding forest. The Macbeths of the four pieces also deserve consideration. Wells" Macbeth was young, but he and Banquo almost seemed Mongolian to me. The furs and dark skin added an interesting Mongoloid quality, perhaps playing on the ... with slicked back hair. Whether this was just how the actor looked or a conscious choice by the director is unknown to me. Finally, Kurosawa's Macbeth is naturally much different. He dresses the part of a Japanese feudal lord and there's not much else to say about him besides he was ... ...

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... to. If something is meant to be, it will be, there is no way in changing it. One of the most well-known tragedies, Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, illustrates themes such as ambition, deception, treachery, and fate. Three witches known as the "Weird Sisters", decide ... Weird Sisters. The witches predict that he, Macbeth, will one day become king. Upon hearing this exciting news, Macbeth decides that he will murder King Duncan with the help of his wife, Lady Macbeth. As Duncan is asleep, Macbeth murders him, assisted by this wife, Lady Macbeth, smears the blood of the poor defenseless ....

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... relies on the witches' prophecies. In addition, the influence of Lady Macbeth also brings ruin to him. Lady Macbeth plays an important role in this play, because she provides a scheme whereby Macbeth can assassinate Duncan. She convinces Macbeth by questioning his courage and challenges him to kill Duncan. She ... says, "screw your courage to the sticking place, And we will not fail" (Shakespeare, 61). After the first murder, killing seems to be the only way for Macbeth ... For in my way it lies" (Shakespeare, 35). When Duncan arrives at Inverness, Macbeth controls his ambition for the ...

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... croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry "Hold, hold!"" (Act 1, Scene 5, lines 38-39, and 53-54) is a quote from Lady Macbeth as she urges Macbeth to kill King Duncan. It is apparent that she desires the throne for her husband, and is ready to do anything to achieve that for him ... and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself." (Act 1, Scene 7, Lines 12-16). Lady Macbeth persuaded him into the act, so therefore the death of King Duncan occurre...

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... a very important part of the play. In Macbeth, William Shakespeare uses sleep to symbolize the mental chaos experienced by the important characters in the play. In my opinion, I think Shakespeare best describe sleep is when Macbeth killed Duncan when Duncan was sleeping, Lady Macbeth sleepwalking "Sleep No More! Macbeth Does Murder Sleep" That is what Macbeth said after Macbeth killed Duncan. The quote explains that never again ... wills Macbeth, or his wife any rest, and from time to time throughout the play they will comment on ... imagery, the play will not be able to symbolize slee...

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... the use of birds to mirror what is happening in the play and also to deepen understanding of the strangeness that has set upon the scene. When Lady Macbeth finds that Duncan will be staying overnight at their castle, she states, "The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my ... battlements." The quote reveals the Lady Macbeth and Macbeth's plan to kill Duncan. The quotation is also important to the play in terms of tone. Ravens are generally recognized as evil, or as warnings of ill ... A main theme of the play is addressing the dark side of human char...

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... ." And yet, Scottish blood was shed defending the kingdom from him. In Act II, all the "bloody business" is afoot as Lady Macbeth and Macbeth plot Duncan's murder. They will stab Duncan, and smear the faces of his sleeping guards with blood. Macbeth returns from the king's chambers with bloody hands, wrongfully bloodied in the murder of his king, his kinsman and his guest ... . He is so horrified by what he has done that he cannot return to the chamber to leave the bloody daggers. Lady Macbeth does the job for him, thinking it a minor task that stands in the way of their triumph. She thin...

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... of Scotland, James 1st, was a firm believer in witchery and this placed a large influence on the audience that Shakespeare was to write MacBeth for. People of the time believed that witches had certain powers that included creating storms, having demon 'followers,' the ability to transform into animals ... sisters' defied all male power and thus were outcast and encumbered with everything society despised and feared. There is evidence of this ostracism throughout MacBeth. For example, the introduction of the witches in the very first scene is in a storm, immediately representing the cha...

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