... praising his strength and bravery. Back in Inverness Lady Macbeth has gotten word from her husband on the prophecies of the weïrd women and the news lights a fire of cruel desires inside her. The Lady shows her darkest side when she says: "Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to ... toe tope-full of direst cruelty!" (Act 1 scene 5, Lines 42-45). Shakespeare makes it known that Lady Macbeth is strong in the most horrific of ways with her strong desires for power. Again she asserts her control, but this time over husband when she says,...

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... Desdemona to death. Contrasting Iago, who had no consciousness of good, Macbeth began with doubt in his ambitious plans. His doubts were stimulated by his subconscious recognition that there was no possible way to integrate his desires with the proper order of things.8 He wanted to be king, but he knew it wasn't his place to be one. "If chance will have ... values, and the fact that he persisted in the face of this awareness, demonstrated a profound moral disorder.15 "Stars, hide your fires! Let now light see my black and deep desires: the eye wink at the hand; yet let that be which the...

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... his son. He shows a desire to do so, saying to himself, "That is a step/On which I must fall down or else o'erleap...Let not light see my black and deep desires." (Act I. Scene iv). Although he already holds two high titles, Macbeth still lusts for more. His newly appointed position of "Thane of Cawdor" is afterthought to his possible future kingship ... . The witches perform a spell bringing about several apparitions that all speak to Macbeth, only telling him portions of the truth concerning the future. The elusiveness of the witches uses Macbeth's subconscious intentions to come to hi...

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... are not cursing or actually wishing bad luck towards Macbeth but greet him with pleasant news. However, is it possible that the witches are in fact a figment of Macbeth's imagination, a subconscious message revealing his inner ambitions and telling him what he would like to hear? It could be possible but Banquo does refer to them, therefore making them real characters. Macbeth ... . In Macbeth there are many soliloquies that are mostly Macbeth's conflicting thoughts. In Act 1, Scene 4 Macbeth says this: Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires; As the play cont...

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... fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition." Although aspirations and dreams are a healthy standard among society as a whole, what happens when these desires gain an "any means necessary" approach? In Macbeth, William Shakespeare show that blind ambition and greed can overcome any sense of decency remaining in individuals, turning them into soulless representatives ... goes completely mad. She begins to see things in blood: "Yet here's a spot. Out, damned spot out, I say. The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now?" In her subconscious, she rea...

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