... devil. If he do bleed,/ I'll glid the faces of the grooms withal,/ For it must seem their guilt."(II, ii) She then smears blood on the servants to make it look like they killed the king. Later on in Act II Scene iii, Lady Macbeth pretends to act shocked and sadden by the murder of the king when Macduff tells her about ... Banquo and Fleance, but she was aware of it. Her guilt starts to show a bit more, but she still supports her husband's plans. Macbeth later kills Macduff's family. This pushes her over the edge. She begins to act crazy. She starts sleepwalking. She tries to wash the bl...

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... free will, who does 'the deed', and is therefore the most responsible for the bloody murder of King Duncan, and the murders that follow in the aftermath. The Three Witches' predictions influence Macbeth's thoughts, and plant in his mind the idea that he will be king. In Act I, scene iii, Macbeth and Banquo first meet with the witches, and learn of their prophecies. The ... any time ignored his wife's influences, and put a stop to the murder plan that she devised. In the aftermath of King Duncan's death, Lady Macbeth's mental strength gradually crumbles until her eventual act of suicide....

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... sense of morality. This proves that he may lie somewhere on a spectrum in between the two labels. The scene ends when Macbeth is outside Duncan's chambers and he says "Hear it not Duncan, for it is a knell/ That summons thee to heaven or hell" (63-64). The manner in which he says ... this creates a very evil vibe, almost as if he has convinced himself that Duncan is deserving of this horrible fate. In scene 2, Macbeth is violently awoken by the act he has just ... in the sense that he is regretful and disappointed in himself. This shows that Macbeth is an anti-hero. Subsequently, Macbet...

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... like Macdonwald, a no good rebel trying to overthrow Duncan and cut a deal with the King of Norway, was going to win for Fortune was smiling on him. But Macbeth hacked his way to meet Macdonwald and meeting him face to face he split him in two ("unseemed him from the nave to th ... aren't so funny (as if they ever were--this is a tragedy remember). How is this possible, Cawdor lives? Yes but not for long, he's a traitor, blah, blah, blah. Now Macbeth is no longer laughing and asks Banquo if this is good news or what: I'm Thane of Cawdor and you might father kings. ... did get that one) ...

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... this situation in Shakespearean plays; in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Claudius commits his evil acts because of his greed for the throne; in Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is so moved by her greed for wealth and power that she forces her husband to commit murder, and in Othello, Moor of Venice, Iago rips ... already remarried to Hamlet's uncle, Claudius. Hamlet, upon returning, sarcastically describes his feelings toward Claudius as "A little less than kin and more than kind." (Act 1, Scene 2) referring to his awkward position of now being the stepson of his uncle. In this play, Claudius not only ...

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