... but is being lead to do so. Since Lady Macbeth is convinced that Macbeth is not man enough to fulfill the prophecy and kill Duncan himself, she desires to become more like a man, so that she will be able to help with the action. She asks the spirits to make her blood thick, which means that she wants to become evil so that she can ... . It is revealed that she has become regretful when Lady Macbeth sleepwalks in the castle and thinks she sees blood everywhere. She tries to get the blood off of her hands but it will not come off. The doctor observes Lady Macbeth crying, "Yet who would hav...

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... 5 she is sleep walking and revealing secrets about the murders. In this quote she says, "Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him?" (78) She is talking about Duncan's murder. The quote makes the reader relive Duncan's murder. Shakespeare does this to make the reader understand how bad and bloody the murder was by talking about how much blood there ... was. The theme of guilt consumes people can be also be ... . Guilt is like an invisible brick tied onto a track stars leg. The invisible brick can only be felt by the track star. The spectators may not know why t...

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... reach her breaking point after she finishes her task. It is not until Act V that the reader is able to clearly see Lady Macbeth's insanity. The act opens with a doctor speaking to Lady Macbeth's gentlewoman about her reoccurring sleep walks. ... "r to accompt?/ Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood on him?" (V, i, 34-39). Lady Macbeth repeatedly washes her hands of the invisible blood stains. This is the single moment when she has truly shown her loss ... of strength and ambition. Lady Macbeth then lingers on by speaking to the doctor, or rather herself, "Here...

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... his plan to kill Duncan and take over Scotland. This is a plan which Macbeth is unable to refrain from forgoing it and ends up digging himself into the ground. "Methought I heard a voice cry {sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep.}" Macbeth is paranoid because has just killed Duncan and thinks someone ... what he could have had. "Come, seeling night, scarf up the tender eye of pitful day and with thy bloody and invisible hand cancel and tear to pieces that great bond which keeps me pale." Macbeth wants the evil spirits to break the future bond between Banquo and his families' fate. S...

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