... - well he deserves that name - Disdaning fortune, with this brandish?d steel, Which smoked with bloddy execution, Like valour's minion carved out his passage Till he faced the slave;? (lines 18 - 22) These lines, as well as the imagery given shows us that Macbeth, a brave and honourable noble, has performed a great feat for his king, all is well. In act 1, Scene 3, the ... 's sense of loyalty and honour, Lady Macbeth sees these qualities as obstacles to obtaining the crown: "Yet do I fear nature; It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way" - lines 17 - 19. Howe...

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... and Lady Macbeth. "Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be What thou art promised; yet do I fear thy nature, It is too full o'th"milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false ... with her character, that has yet to have any substance to allow the reader to interpret her role by. She continues by expressing her fear over not being able to "catch the nearest way" due to Macbeth's overly kind character. This is demonstrat...

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... in reality. She thinks that her will to follow through with her thoughts outweighs Macbeth's determination. Lady Macbeth views her husband as "too full o" the milk of human kindness/To catch the nearest way," (I-v, 16-17). Within the first act, she deems herself the more committing and authoritative person in this couple. She claims that "that which rather [Macbeth] dost fear ... believes matters should be taken into her own hands from the moment she receives the letter about the witches" prophecies. Lady Macbeth believes that Macbeth doesn't have the "spirit" to "catch the nearest way"...

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... . He must be examined as a human being with human weaknesses. Is he one who, as Lady Macbeth says, Act I, Sc. v, "is too full of the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way" or is he the "butcher" that Malcolm considers him to be in the final scene of the play? Or is he a victim of his ambition or of ... has not yet committed wrong. * Compassionate - Lady Macbeth, who knows him best of all people, says in soliloquy that he is "too full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way". Does this suggest that he is compassionate? She says he is ambitious but "without the ill...

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... than Macbeth. She knew that Macbeth's sense of honour would not allow him to murder the king. "" it is full o" the milk of kindness to catch the nearest way,"" because Lady Macbeth knew that he couldn't "catch the nearest way," she also knew that she would have to urge Macbeth into becoming king. To do this she calls upon evil spirits. ""Come ... ...

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... mentioned he is described as a great war hero. He is an accomplished general with a thirst for killing. He even kills Macdonwald by, "unseaming him from the nave to the chops" (I, 2, 22). The rest of the play depicts scenes of blood through violence, murders, battles, and it all culminates with the final scene when Macbeth's head is chopped straight off by Macduff ... ). Then afterwards as Macduff and Ross are discussing the death of Duncan, Ross refers to the murder as a bloody deed, "Is't known who did this more than bloody deed?" (II, 4, 22) By referring to it as a "bloody deed" it ai...

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... the execution of their evil deed, her sinister, evil qualities are shown once again. "Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it." (Macbeth, I, v, 16-20) Now, Lady Macbeth has become so sinister and ... ...

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... his wife's mind. Lady Macbeth expressed her feelings to him in act one scene five, "Yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness, To catch the nearest way." Lady macbeth fears Macbeth's soft, kind-hearted nature, she thinks he's too nice and weak to take the easy route of murder to glory. Macbeth did not ... ...

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... person who wears the pants in their relationship. She proves this early on in the play by stating that Macbeth is 'too full o' the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way"(Shakespeare, Act 1 Scene 5 Line 16). She finishes her monologue by saying that she is going to "chastise with the valour of my tongue "(Shakespeare ... ...

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... only did Lady Macbeth convince Macbeth to kill King Duncan, but the lady vocalizes her doubts " Yet I do fear thy nature,? I is too full o'th' milk of human kindness/ To catch the nearest way " ( I.iv.16-18). Lady Macbeth worries that Macbeth is too much of a coward to deliberately get anything done. Near the end she sees that peace of mind ... ...

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... out of reach. She also prepares herself to work her husband into a murderous state of mind, as she believes him to be "too full o" the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way." Within the first act, she deems herself to be the more authoritative person in this couple. She believes that even if Macbeth is too scared or unwilling ... ...

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... the evil that needs to merge with is ambition. As said in her famous soliloquy, " Yet do I fear they nature./ It is too full o'th milk of human kindness/ To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great,/Art not without ambition, but without/ The illness should attend it."( I.V. 15-19) For this reason, she influences him to murder the King ... ...

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... 't sleep because they are feeling guilty about the things they have done. "Macbeth is occupied with images of nets and tangles, signs of traps and deceits that he fears will catch him for what he's done"(Dean 351). Lady Macbeth is seen to be sleepless and sleepwalking as well. At one point, she actually confesses to some of the evil her ... ...

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... 't sleep because they are feeling guilty about the things they have done. "Macbeth is occupied with images of nets and tangles, signs of traps and deceits that he fears will catch him for what he's done"(Dean 351). Lady Macbeth is seen to be sleepless and sleepwalking as well. At one point, she actually confesses to some of the evil her ... ...

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... she considers Macbeth as too kind and soft to murder the King. As she says: " Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way.'(Act 1, Scene 5, line 13-15) This shows that in the beginning Macbeth was considered as to soft to commit this kind of crime. So, she talks him ... ...

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... what the witches had to say, especially about becoming king. However, she doubts her husband has the guts (after the battle he should be covered in guts, everyone else's) to "catch the nearest way." After all, she claims Macbeth's nature "is too full of the Milk of human kindness." Talk to Macdonwald about that one, babe. Well, she figures Macbeth won ... ...

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... visit that night. "Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be what thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great; art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly, that wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false ... ...

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... Macbeth would not go through with the plan unless she pushes him to do it, "Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o" th" milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it. (p 256)" She knows that Macbeth is a loyal warrior and it would be ... ...

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... and the awfulness of the projected murder: "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly. If th' assassination could trammel up the consequence, and catch, with his surcease, success; that but this blow might be the be-all and the end-all"" At this point, Macbeth's character has come to the point where he has ... ...

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... and imagines scenes of murder and considers the consequences of them. The first time we see this is in his soliloquy "if th" assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease, success: that but this blow Might be the be-all, and the end-all" Again before he murders Duncan his imagination takes over he sees images relating ... ...

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... and works up the audience. This is because this is where Iago's plan seems to change everything so quickly. At the start of the scene Othello exclaims: "Excellent wretch: Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee: and when thee not, Chaos is come again." (III.3.98-100) He means that if he didn't love Desdemona, it would be chaos. This ... ...

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... mind focused on the prize: the crown. However, "Lady Macbeth's strength is really the mock fortitude of a mind deluded by ambition" (Coleridge). As the guilt of Duncan's murder begins to catch up with Lady Macbeth, she progressively changes into an unstable, despairing person. The first sign of Lady Macbeth's change was when she tells Macbeth that she cannot kill Duncan. She ... ...

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... too nice to get the greatness promised and decides to push him into killing Duncan. "Yet I do fear thy nature; it is to full o" the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way". To achieve her goal, Lady Macbeth gets rid of any kindness in herself that may stand in the way of her plans. "Come you spirits that tend ... ...

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... encounter we have with Lady Macbeth is when she is reading her husband's letter about the witches' prophecies, and then her reaction to the letter: "do I fear thy nature,"to catch the nearest way."" Some of the first words out of her mouth are the beginnings of a plan to kill the King, a hell-worthy sin of the greatest evil. She immediately ... ...

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... is better to "be with the dead, whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, than on the torture of the mind to lie" (III.II.22-24). Lady Macbeth holds true to this statement when she ultimately commits suicide after being driven insane by her guilt. By contrast, in the moments leading up to Macbeth's eventual ... ...

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