... 's telltale blood. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red. (II.ii.77-80) This shows guilt is beginning to build up within him, because of the life-altering effect that Lady Macbeth has had on him. She corrupts his life, and sets him, too, on ... raging within her becomes much too strong for her to handle. The first evidence of her guilty conscience is after Macbeth follows through with the plan to kill Duncan. Give me the daggers; the sleeping, and the dead are but as pic...

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... ). Kenneth Muir also sees a connection between light and darkness representing the fight of good verses evil; he "also observes a contrast between the powers of light and darkness in Macbeth. Darkness pervades all the action in Macbeth's world where as light manifests itself in the scenes in England and those in which Malcolm and Macduff restores order at the end of the play"(Muir, 4). He goes on to state " there is ... Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red"(II, ii, 64-67) shows that M...

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