... is about to crash with. "It was not the fear in the man's face that reached Robert Procter. It was the trust in the face of the sleeping girl." (pg. 131, paragraph 7) Right before he crashes into the car, he feels such fear for the innocent, little girl in the other car. He ... do anything he pleases. In the short story "Bluffing" written by Gail Helgason, one of the main characters are Liam who is critically injured from a bear attack. Liam and his girlfriend Gabriella were off hiking and exploring in the woods and while resting, they got into a little fight and Gabriella started walkin...

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... commit acts such as murder. (Moore, www.allshakespeare.com) After doing this, she and her husband conspire to murder Duncan while he sleeps and place the blame on the two sleeping bodyguards. In Act 1, Scene 7, she says: "But screw your courage to the sticking place And we"ll not fail When in swinish sleep Their drenched natures as in a death, What ... cannot you and I perform upon Th" unguarded Duncan? What not put upon His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt Of our great quell?" In this scene, she is trying to convince her husband to commit such a vile act as murder and in anoth...

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... love behind. The next day Juliet discovers that her father has arranged for her to marry someone else. Pain-struck and heartbroken Juliet doesn't know what to do. She can't bear to marry someone she doesn't love, let alone marry someone at all since she is already a wife to Romeo. And with Romeo being in Mantua she feels more alone then ... ever. Distressed at the prospect of a false marriage and going mad she turns to Friar Laurence for advice. He offers her a sleeping potion to make her appear dead for 42 hours. During this time, the Friar would send a letter to Romeo to return to Ver...

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... deceive everyone who observes him, he will have to put on the appropriate expression and look innocent so that nobody suspects him. "To beguile the time, look like the time, bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under't." When Duncan arrives Lady Macbeth suddenly becomes this two-faced, deceitful creature ... body again so Lady Macbeth decides to do it herself. Then she orders Macbeth to hand over the daggers to her and mocks his cowardice. "Give me the Daggers. The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures; "t is the eye of c...

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... , she preys on that convincing him the plan will work by saying: What cannot you and I perform upon The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt Of our great quell? (I.vii.71-74). She uses him in order to pursue her own goal of becoming queen. Also, it was her ambitious nature that motivated ... returns with the bloody daggers and is too shaken up to go back to the scene. So, Lady Macbeth yells at him: Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures:tis the eye of childhood, That fears a painted devil. (II.ii....

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... 's here in double trust: first, as I am his kinman and his subject, strong both against the deed; then, as his host, who should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan hath borne his faculties so meek " (Act 1; scene 7) As Macbeth plots to murder Duncan Lady Macbeth walks into the room and asks Macbeth is ... just killed that one person but he kept going and killing. He killed his king in his sleep which he clamed he loved him so much, he killed two helpless sleeping guards out side of the kings room, his then went on and killed his best friend...

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... , very important to note how significant Lady Macbeth is in the whole killing - she signalled the bell, she persuaded Macbeth When Macbeth enters the room in which the king is sleeping, he watches him for a while, perhaps second thoughts creeping in. The whole audience would be on edge, perhaps the groundlings shouting, but it would be a very cliff hanging moment. Duncan ... actually wakes up and Macbeth has to cover his mouth, this makes you question weather Macbeth would have gone ahead with this if the king had remained sleeping, but seconds after the awaking of Duncan Macbeth kills h...

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... to her. She uses demoralising language to convince Macbeth to murder the king. Macbeth is finally persuaded to commit murder. He sets off to kill King Duncan while he is sleeping in his chamber. Lady Macbeth has "drugged" the guards by getting them drunk, so Macbeth can sneak in and kill the king. Lady Macbeth waits anxiously for her husbands return ... how things have turned out when she begins to sleepwalk and says phrases such as "Out damned spot! Out, I say!" This could be her conscience showing out while she is sleeping. She also begins washing the blood from her hands as if to cle...

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... empty seat, he sees dead Banquo's ghost. Macbeth is shocked and loses his sanity for a brief moment and he is yelling at his hallucinations: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble And dare me to the desert with thy sword. If trembling I inhabit then, protest me ... since the ghost is of Banquo, Macbeth believes that it will haunt him for spilling his innocent blood. Macbeth says that his nerves world not tremble had it been a Russian bear or even an armoured rhinoceros but since it is his best frie...

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... of Macbeth's mental state. This hallucinatio! n takes place during a banquet at the castle of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Macbeth says: What man dare, I dare; Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm"d rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger, Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble. (3.4, 99-104) Macbeth is envisioning the ghost of Banquo and stating ... that he is more terrified of the form of Banquo than he would be in the face of dangerous animals such as a bear, rhinoceros or tiger. The use of the images of terrifying animals helps to emphasize the fear that...

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... the greatness they had predicted would fall upon us when I became king. I only hinted at what must be done to allow this third prediction to come true as I could not bear to put on paper the whole evilness my thoughts bore. It all happened quickly from then on. There was no time for further thought, only action. Everything was falling into ... everything you had if I could not reach you yourself. It was then that I lost my own wife. Driven insane by nightmares of our evil deeds, her body could no longer bear the horrors in her mind. I am therefore alone again. All I have left is the hop...

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... know, all mortal consequences have pronounced me thus: fear not Macbeth; No man that's born of woman shall e?er have power upon thee?'the mind I sway by, and the heat I bear shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.? Scene Five shows how emotionless and cruel Macbeth has become when he is told of his wife's death. He does not ... from the audience for the first time in the play, when his strong, warrior side takes over, hiding his evilness and casting a shadow over his previous deeds for the audience: ?Bear-like I must fight the course.? He is showing his courage out loud, but men...

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... deceive his own cousin, the king. She wants Macbeth to project an acknowledgement of the kinship that exists between Macbeth and Duncan. "To beguile the time,/ Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,/ your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,/ but be the serpent under't" (I.v.63-66) Expressions and gestures using "hands" seem amicable in Act I, but ... remorse. Macbeth says that the witches have placed a "fruitless crown" (III.i.60) on his head and given him a "barren scepter" (III.i.61) to hold. They have foreseen that he will bear no sons and Macbeth is bitter. He f...

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... to do with the crime, which, like the earlier example with the spirits, shows us that she needs to call upon super-natural powers and hallucinogenic drugs or she cannot bear to murder Duncan. Also, to be inspired violence is a very common reaction to large amounts of alcohol, so that fact is no use in proving her complete darkness. She also ... in the play, we hear her tell Macbeth: "A Little water clears us of this deed; how easy is it then?- but now, her guilty conscience is a burden she has to bear, and the rhyming couplet could be said to be the beginning of her descent into madness...

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... in this way when he is first faces with the task of eliminating Duncan. In fact, Macbeth wishes the King would just waken after he plunges the dagger into his sleeping body. However, after being made King and tasting the power that comes with it his conscience subsides him. Now King Macbeth will stop at nothing to keep Banquo's family line ... ...

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... Two, Scene Two, 43-44) When a person's mind is troubled, sleep becomes impossible and useless. This personification was referring to the fact that King Duncan was killed while he was sleeping peacefully, which left Macbeth tormented and struggled with sleep due to his fear and guilt. "Still it cried, 'Sleep no more!' to all the house. 'Glamis hath ... ...

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... scene of the crime, so Lady Macbeth takes them back without hesitation. She calls him a coward and a child before she leaves. "Infirm of purpose!/ Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead/ Are but as pictures. 'Tis the eye of childhood/ That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed,/ I'll glid the faces of the grooms withal,/ For ... ...

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... . This first occurs when Lady Macbeth asks "thick night" to come with the "smoke of hell," so that her knife will not see the wound it makes in the peacefully sleeping King (1.5.3).   She also calls for murderous spirits to prevent "heaven" from "peep[ing] through the blanket of the dark to cry 'Hold, Hold!'" she implies that light (here associated with ... ...

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... " (2.2.35) saying, "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep...Sleep that knits up the [ravelled] sleave of care " (2.2.35-38). Macbeth tries to console himself after murdering King Duncan by sleeping as he dreads that he will never get to have an "innocent sleep"" (2.2.35) again in his entire lifetime until he runs into his end. His conscience acts up again ... ...

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... of the prophecies therefore committing regicide in order to become King faster. By caving in to the pressure, Macbeth then kills the previous king being King Duncan while he is sleeping soundly in his bed, and is declared King a few hours after framing the guards for the murder. After this happened, Macbeth's figures that Banquo and his son pose a threat to ... ...

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... sleep, and therefore Cawdor/Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more." (2.2.43-44) At this point, Duncan is a symbol of innocence in Macbeth's mind. As Duncan was sleeping during his assassination, Duncan has "become" sleep. In other words, sleep in line 43 is Duncan, while in line 44 the word sleep means sleep. Macbeth's titles are ... ...

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... . Lady Macbeth plays an important role in Macbeth's demise since she provides the scheme for Macbeth to assassinate King Duncan because he reminds her of her father when he is sleeping. After Macbeth kills King Duncan he regrets his wrongdoing. At this point in the play we can note the change in Macbeth's character. Macbeth's first murder was a trying experience for ... ...

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... text of Act II, Scene i) Scene ii: The scene continues in the inner court, as Lady Macbeth appears on stage and says that she has drugged the soldiers guarding Duncan's sleeping quarters. Macbeth comes back and tells his wife that he has done the foul deed. He also says that he fear's God's wrath, that he can no longer pray, and ... ...

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... a lot about how he will murder without saying the actual word "murder." "If it were done, when "tis done, then "twere well It were done quickly". Macbeth talks about Duncan sleeping peacefully in his grave, nobody can touch him now because he's gone "Duncan is in his grave, After life's fistful fever he sleeps well, Treason had done his worst: nor ... ...

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... Macbeth, as well. As lady Macbeth smears the blood on the groomsmen, William Magunn describes it; " His lady imbrues herself in the crimson stream and, gilds, the faces of the sleeping grooms with gore . Gloom, ruin, murder, horrible, doubts, unnatural suspicions, portents of dread in earth and heaven, surround us on all sides"(Maginn, 193), Lady Macbeth is the one who ... ...

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