... to meet with Macbeth, and the important imagery of "Fair is foul, and foul is fair," is first introduced. Throughout the play, the idea of things being other than they seem arises time and again. Soon thereafter, Macbeth himself says "So fair and foul a day I have not seen," implying the ... Cawdor and eventually King. Upon hearing this, Macbeths starts, and Banquo replies to this "Good sir, why do you start and seem to fear // Things that do sound so fair?" This is perhaps the moment in which Macbeth realizes his potential and his ambition takes over. When Macbeth learns that he ... at...

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... , ambitious and hard qualities possessed by the protagonist Lady Macbeth, were important in contributing to the overall impact of the play, as the rise and fall in her character, could also be compared to the rise and fall of the reign of her husband, Macbeth, as the usurping king of Scotland. However, towards the end, we see that Lady Macbeth is not ... after the murder, in the banquet scene. "Are you a man?" However, in this scene, after Duncan's death she says, "you do unbend your noble strength to think so brainsickly of things." And she resumes control again, as he has nothing furth...

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... is at once too ambitious to allow his conscience to stop him from murdering his way to the top and too conscientious to be happy with himself as a murderer. As things fall apart for him at the end of the play, he seems almost relieved "with the English army at his gates, he can finally return to life as a warrior, and he ... ...

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