... honesty. Macbeth does not want his morals to interfere with his inner ambitions. His conscience warns him not to commit the regicide, but Macbeth's ambition and Lady Macbeth's power of persuasion are strong, and they defeat his morality. Evil, his ˜black and deep desires', is begin to take control of him. Light and darkness are also used to illustrate life ... is no longer seen. In the same way that sight and light, and blindness and darkness are used together in this analogy, Shakespeare uses these symbols together to amplify the themes certain scenes. When Macbeth is imagining what w...

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... a matter of minutes. His character turns from strong to weak and he appears reduced from a warrior to a fragile, scared little boy all because of his wife's influence and persuasion. Through this characterisation, the themes of power, lust and corruption emerge. We see how this lust for power combined with the powerful personality of Lady Macbeth drives Macbeth to cross the boundary between ... ...

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