... him just enough so his murderers can see what they're doing) is snuffed out the moment he is killed (3.3.5). Lastly, Macbeth responds to the news of Lady Macbeth's suicide by proclaiming "out, out brief candle" (5.5.3), using the candle's flame as a metaphor for her short life and sudden death. The image of the candle is used to show how vulnerable life is. It does not last for a long ... time and it is easily blown out. Macbeth learns this at a very high cost: his tragic end. The association of light and darkness does not only ... ("start") out of his head and make him blind. Like Mac...

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... on a killing spree that doesn't end until both partners" demise. However, Macbeth could not have committed the first few crimes without the help and insistence of his wife. She acts as the fate the witches spoke of to make him king and yet ironically is mainly responsible for aggravating Macbeth's struggle between morality ... herself into a murderous state of mind, crying out, "Come you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty!" Lady Macbeth wants to lose her femininity so she can be cold-blooded and commit murd...

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... gripe, Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding. For Banquo's issue have I files my mind; For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered. (p 280)" and decides that Banquo and his son need to be killed. He will have a dinner and Banquo ... he was invincible. The last apparition had said that the woods would march and defeat him. Meanwhile at the castle, Lady Macbeth was caught sleepwalking by the gentlewoman and she also noticed that Lady Macbeth could not be in a dark room without a candle lit. The gentlewoman had called the doctor to investigate what ... w...

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... or more unusual scenes in Macbeth, for example the murders, Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking scene, and the appearances of the witches, all occur when it is dark outside. Lady Macbeth's sleep walking scene is the perfect example of the light and dark symbol. She once wanted darkness to hide herself, but she carried a candle so she contradicted herself. The line, "She has light by her continually; "tis her ... command.", symbolizes Lady Macbeth's fear of darkness and or evil. The image of blood also plays an important role in the play. From the first appearance of the bloody Sargent in the se...

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