... even more curious than ever, with the witches" greetings to him still fresh in his mind. His curiosity gets the better of him and questions Ross. "And, for an earnest of a greater honour, He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor: In which addition, hail, most worthy thane! For it is thine." "The ... your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: the eye wink at the hand; yet let that be, which the eye fears, when it is done, to see." In the next scene, Lay Macbeth reads a letter sent to her by Macbeth. She reads of the witches" prophecies and hears how Macbeth is the new ...

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... unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty." (Macbeth, I, v, 47-50) Immediately, Lady Macbeth begins to stand out of the "feminist norms". After hearing of her husband becoming king, she does not stand up to cheer and rejoice in a "womanly ... proper burial, Antigone will stop at nothing. "I will bury him myself. And even if I die in the act, that death will be a glory an outrage sacred to the gods! I have longer to please the dead than to please the living here" (Antigone, 85-89). While Lady Macbeth possessed the ... plotting with Macbeth over the ...

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... murder. However right at the opening of the scene the audience can tell that she is anxious; she repeats herself, "That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold" and "What hath quenched them hath given me fire." This reference to fire implies an interesting image. The situation she is in is not unlike a fire, it can easily become out of control; her ... off the job" and clean up the mess the Macbeth has left behind. We are already aware that Lady Macbeth thinks her husband is "too full o'th milk of human kindness" from Act I and had she not convinced his to murder the king none of t...

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... hide your fires;/Let not light see my black and deep desires."" He also proceeds to say immediately after, "The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be/Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see,"" which means that Macbeth is concerned with what will become of his soul ... , even when he is near death. He continues to descend into darkness, and even describes himself appropriately to Seyon in (V, v, 11-18): " I have supped full with horrors./Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,/Cannot once start me."" Macbeth, a few lines later, is also aware of his forthcoming demise: "Life'...

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... both agreed on the plan to murder the King that evening. Lady Macbeth was evidently worried about Macbeth when he left the dinning chamber. After she found him, her short breathed questions showed signs of fright and tension as if something might have went wrong with their agreement. Her outlook was ... an iron first. When she was reading Macbeth's letter about the Witches" prophecy and how it was coming true, she was willing to go the limits to get the throne for her husband and in return, power for herself. In her soliloquy she asked the spirits to: " Unsex me here, And fill me, from th...

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... felt he had, he abused it. This power turned around, only to spoil anything he could have had. Lady Macbeth had a power in which she controlled Macbeth. She felt that Macbeth had no manly side to him. Lady Macbeth was the one with the plans and who made it all happen. Without her Macbeth ... spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty..." (1, 5, 39-45). Lady Macbeth felt she had more manly power than her husband. She felt that she could do a better job of being king and murdering the present one. Lady Macbeth had...

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... , the previously kind Macbeth may have never listened to the witches without prompting from his wife Lady Macbeth. There is no doubt that Lady Macbeth played an enormous role in the egregious actions of her husband. She saw Macbeth as weak and questioned his manhood when he was unsure of his murderous task. Macbeth felt the wrath of his wife's manipulation and ... felt a need to prove himself to her. Lady Macbeth also faces her demise due to her ambitious ways. She is inevitably driven to insanity as guilt completely consumes her. As her husband grows more and more violent she begins to ...

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... Macbeth. Imagery reveals an insecure Macbeth plagued by his guilt, but also a resolute Macbeth determined to carry out Banquo's murder. First, he uses animal imagery to deliver the following statements: "We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it" (3.2.15)[,] and " O, full of scorpions is my ... beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath rung night's yawning peal" (45-47), and "[c]ome seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day" (51-52)[.] By invoking evil, the dark imagery reveals Macbeth's affinity to darkness as he resolves to have Banquo and ... to rekindle the relationship they onc...

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... the Anglican religion. Jealousy is a motive that leads the witches to strike and " The witch derisively sees her enemy as a sexual object whose role she intends to usurp " (Biggins 256). The witches uses women, who are sexually active to cast spells on just for the boisterous effect and to shame ... is foiling like his sanity. Everyone at Macbeth's castle is confused on why King Duncan is the one who is murdered because he is such an admirable king. Shakespeare is an expert on showing evil through darkness by comparing one of the most evil places in the world to a well-known location i...

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... human individual. This is the inescapable bond that keeps him "pale" and at Act 3 Scene 2, he states: "Come seeling night Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale" The above quote by Macbeth demonstrates ... of what he has done. Macbeth also feels that the killing of Duncan has cut him off from God, because before the murder the text is full of references to things being divine, but following the murder everything in the text becomes bleak and unholy. At this point in the play Macbeth does...

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