... between good and evil is eventually settled when Lady Macbeth accuses him of cowardice and lack of manliness with questions like "art thou feared?" and belittlements like "live a coward in thine own esteem"(33). Her final diatribe into Macbeth's anxiousness, "screw your courage to the sticking-place" (35), convinced Macbeth that "[he is] settled and bend up each corporal agent to this ... your thoughts" (47), to "consider it not so deeply" (45), to "retrieve we to our chamber" (47). Lady Macbeth has been the one doing all the ordering, which reveals her own selfish desires to kill Dunca...

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... Macbeth himself. We learn that she thinks he is "too full o'th"milk of human kindness" (Line 15). In line 24 Lady Macbeth says, "That I may pour my spirits in thine ear." The word "spirits" can be defined as her murderous thoughts. In the final three lines of the soliloquy, Lady Macbeth tries to remind him that it is his fate ... . This can relate to the witches, because like them, Lady Macbeth can no longer fit into the natural world. Her insights into Macbeth's nature seem to be supported by his own asides because his asides show him to be very indecisive and confused. This is because ...

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... the destruction and disorder they have created on land and sea. "The Weird Sisters, hand in hand/ Posters of the sea and land/Thus do go, about, about/ Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, and thrice again to make up nine." They do not feel anything for the suffering of others except content and satisfaction. It is evident that their ... show the glory of our art?/ And, which is worse, all you have done/ Hath been but for a wayward son/ Spiteful and wrathful, who as others do/ Loves for his own ends, not for you." It is not the witches who take control over Macbeth's actions, alternativ...

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... desire" of his to kill Duncan. Macbeth at this point must have been swinging either side of if he should kill Duncan. When Lady Macbeth ask him "live a coward in thine own esteem" I think he gets very annoyed this is shown by his reaction "I dare do all that may become a man" and after Lady Macbeth's has said that she has "given suck ... him realise his true potential. Even the witches didn"t do that they just said he would be king and not how he was going to become king. He decided his own course of action. ...

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... give her the strength to kill Duncan. Upon Macbeth refusal to proceed with the plan Lady Macbeth pressures her husband to commit the murder and states: "and live a coward in thine own esteem"(1.7, line 47). After the assassination of Duncan is complete, Lady Macbeth acquires the highest position for a woman, Queen of Scotland. Her dream is fulfilled, but the punishment of guilt ... ...

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... 't". When Macbeth tells his wife that he will not do it she turns on him and starts to insult him by telling him he is a coward "and live a coward in thine own esteem". Lady Macbeth uses this because she knows that he is a known as a brave soldier, in hope that he will defend himself by carrying out the murder. Another example where ... ...

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... Macbeth decides he does not want to go through with the killing of Duncan, she says to him, "Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem, letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," like the poor cat I" the adage?" (I, vii). Macbeth does not want to be a coward, both as a soldier and as a husband, so he accepts ... ...

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