... prophecies, and therefore Macbeth cannot be held totally responsible for what happens to himself. The witches make it their business, their enjoyment, to play with Macbeth's mind. For everything they say is meant to harm the foolish Macbeth, without him realizing it. [T] The early actions of Lady Macbeth create a tone of apathetic ... and willpower to commit it. Although she knows that she may not be able to commit these heinous crimes herself, Lady Macbeth has the piece of mind to calls upon evil spirits and other demonic entities to give her some aid. Lady Macbeth, at the beginning of...

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• Grade Level: High School

... could be mainly a love story or a comedy of humors. Shakespeare is both polishing his craftsmanship and exploring new facets of his experience, so that the play has the buoyancy of a mind exhilarated by discovery, testing one human impulse against another, and satisfied with a momentary state of balance which seems all the more trustworthy because its limits have been felt and recognized ... underlying themes that often manifest themselves only indirectly below the surface action (Williams, 1961). The ridiculous mistakes that control the plot incite superficial laughter and at the same ...

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