... his wife, another contradiction in his personality, as he is also supposedly a fearless warrior. At the beginning of Act Two the audience see Macbeth's evil and hugely ambitious side taking over as well as seeing that he is going slightly crazy, seeing things and illusions. His tone becomes ... paranoid and scared. His honest side takes over, realizing what a terrible crime he has committed. He shows the audience, who at the time of Shakespeare would?ve been very superstitious, that demonic and un-religious thoughts and things are happening to him: ??I could not sayAmen?; When they did...

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... Macbeth" by William Shakespeare, we see many common themes that emerge. One of the major themes is ambition, which in the end eventually leads to death. Ambition finds its most powerful expression in the play's two main characters, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. The ambition of these main characters leads to greed, insanity, and there own death. Macbeth ... castle be seized and cruelly, that Lady Macduff and her children be murdered. The murder of Macduff's family, marks the moment in which Macbeth descends into utter madness, killing neither for political gain nor to silence an enemy, but si...

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... anything about Macbeth and power until Macbeth persuaded them, so basically it was Macbeth's own fault for making the witches say what they said. Although other arguments could be that the witches knew that Macbeth was going to ask of their speech because they could predict the future, but Shakespeare made no ... reference to the witches predicting that Macbeth would ask for them to speak. Then they speak in act 2, scene 3, lines 46-48, "All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis All hail Macbeth ... , hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor All hail Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter" Ban...

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