... her own evilness. This is seen when she says "out dammed spot! Out I say!... Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him (5.13.39-45). Within every tragic hero, Shakespeare instills a tragic flaw. Macbeth's weakness in character is often considered to be the ambition which he seemingly shows. The quest for security and the ... form murdering his way to the top and too conscience to be happy with himself as a murderer. Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's character disintegrate through involvement with evil, manipulation, and vanity. They both realize that everything t...

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... are many different references to these two elements, and each one is connected to certain symbols which take the form of animals, plants, day, and night. Ultimately, light and darkness represent good and evil.  In the first scenes of Act I, the imagery of light is used when King Duncan names ... start of darkness taking over Scotland, but can also be seen as a metaphor for Duncan's life being ˜strangled' by Macbeth, ˜the dark night'. Another example of darkness overtaking light occurs when Banquo's torchlight (the one that illuminates him just enough so his murderers can see what they...

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... a-top the throne and be king, fulfilling both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's dreams. Along with many other darkness images, Ross talks how the "dark night strangles the traveling lamp" (2.4 9). This symbolizes that darkness is taking over. Therefore, the reader assumes that since darkness represents death, death and despair ... over. In reality, it is merely a solar eclipse, which has covered up the sun, making it dark for a few hours. In conclusion, night imagery creates a dark path for each reader's mind to follow. Along with darkness, the comparison and use of animals to people and events ...

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... uses dark imagery such as "ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath rung night's yawning peal" (45-47), and "[c]ome seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day" (51-52)[.] By invoking evil, the dark imagery reveals Macbeth's affinity ... to darkness as he resolves to have Banquo and Fleance killed. Macbeth calls on night to fall so darkness will hide his horrible deed. Thus, imagery reveals an insecure and resolute Macbeth. Furthermore, diction reveals a weary Lady Macbeth and Macbeth's ... foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further"[,...

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... being performed. There is an obsession with mortality because at that time, and still today, death intrigues people to watch. Darkness and night both exemplify the image of evil and the tone for the play. The obscurity of night conceals all the underlying burdens. When major confessions are confessed many of them happen in the witching hours causing many people, like Lady ... crime. Banquo notes the sky as clear by saying " There's husbandry in heaven;/ Their candles are all out " (II.i.4-5). Banquo says this to his son, Fleance, about the night coming faster than a usual night in Scotl...

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... to lose the nature she has in order to accomplish her purpose" (Bloom). Lady Macbeth, in fact, says, "Come to my woman's breast / And take my milk for gall- ( I.v.38 -39). She is so determined to become queen that she says violent, repulsive things to prove it. She also mentions that she would "have plucked my nipple from his (a babe's) boneless ... in him? She recalls Lady Macduff. She recalls her husband's dangerous starting. She smells blood still. She remembers her fearful admonition to Macbeth on the night of the murder to put on his nightgown, on the night of the feast to put away...

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... would be a dream come true. "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..." (1, 5, 39-45). Lady Macbeth felt she had more manly power than her husband. She felt that she could do a better job of being king and murdering the present one. Lady Macbeth ... welcome in you eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like th" innocent flower, But be the serpent under't he that's coming Must be provided for: and you shall put This night's great business into my dispatch- (1, 7, 62-66). Lady Macbeth showed Macbeth who ...

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... supernatural elements were at work. The Elizabethans had always been susceptible to belief in the supernatural. As May notes, these people more that other people questioned matters beyond their vision (39). Shakespeare was clearly influenced by his race. He had an inquiring mind that refused bondage by the limitations of matter (Mish 28). Listing the numberless superstitions that Shakespeare gathered from ... a young man so he was happy to enjoy the realities of life rather that ask about its meanings (Schiller 200). The form of supernatural used by Shakespeare in Mid-Summer Night's Dre...

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... supernatural elements were at work. The Elizabethans had always been susceptible to belief in the supernatural. As May notes, these people more that other people questioned matters beyond their vision (39). Shakespeare was clearly influenced by his race. He had an inquiring mind that refused bondage by the limitations of matter (Mish 28). Listing the numberless superstitions that Shakespeare gathered from ... a young man so he was happy to enjoy the realities of life rather that ask about its meanings (Schiller 200). The form of supernatural used by Shakespeare in Mid-Summer Night's Dre...

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... wife, Lady Macbeth, encourages him to murder Duncan to remove the obstacles in the way of his future reign on Scotland. The two devise a plan to murder Duncan and that night, Macbeth heads to Duncan's room to stab him. On the way to Duncan's room, Macbeth hallucinates and sees dagger floating in front of him. He attempts to reach out to ... is appalled:"Is this a dagger which I before me,/ The handle toward my hand? ... A dagger of the mind, a false creation,/ Proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain?" (II,i, 33-39) Although Macbeth acts horrified of the idea of killing Duncan and seei...

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... to create his being is where social order and morality is broken. " I collected bones from charnel-houses and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous fingers of the human frame"(Shelley 39). Going against moral order, Victor assembled his creation of stolen limbs to finally create life. "Born" benevolent, the creature is abandoned and soon grows a great resentment for Victor and all ... threatening his well-being and that of his family. The creature demonstrates his capacity for evil at it's greatest extent when he murders Victor's newlywed bride, Elizabeth, on their wedding nig...

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... your teacher announces that you have thirty minutes to write an analysis of this poem and when you look the poem spits in your face and stops." (pg. 169, line 39-44) It has betrayed "you". In the same way, Macbeth's ambition to be king was so great that he was willing to do anything to gain the crown. And that ... thee." (Act 2, Scene 1, line 33-34) "I see thee yet, in form as palpable At this which now I draw Thou marshall'st me the way I was going." (line 40-42) The night Macbeth kills Duncan, a floating dagger appears before him pointing towards Duncan's chamber. Macbeth unconsciousl...

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... thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feelings as to sight? Or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heart-oppressed brain? (2.1.33-39) Macbeth begins to see visions even before the murder of Duncan, which signifies that he is may be having second thoughts and foreshadows that Macbeth will eventually completely lose control ... reality. Macbeth" mind becomes so paralyzed that he does not see the consequences of his actions and heads strait towards a tragic ending. All events in this play, take place at night, in a dark environment, or dur...

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... Lady Macbeth the they will "proceed no further in this business" because he is well thought of by others and does not wish to lose their good opinion? Is this vanity or fear? What do you think persuades him to agree to the deed? Is he afraid that Lady Macbeth will consider that he lacks manliness? Does he value her opinion ... ...

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... is the sort of man who would be riled at having his courage and purpose questioned, least of all by a woman, and she knows this. She knows that her husband's vanity and desire to prove himself will prevail, and he will do as she wants him to do. He will wish to seem as if he is in control, though as ... ...

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... ] thought, whose murder is fantastical " (1.3.142) turns him into a completely different individual. His ambition of getting the throne and power causes him to ask himself if "a dagger of the mind " (2.1.39) is just the mind's way of giving him signs to do the evil deeds or just a hallucination of his that is done by his confused mind. Macbeth's ego influences him ... ...

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... , we may even say Blackness, broods over this tragedy. It is Remarkable that almost all the scenes which at once recur to memory take place either at night or in some Dark Spot"(Bradley, 214), such as "the vision of the dagger, the murder of Duncan, the murder of Banquo, and the sleepwalking of ... hell, that my keen knife see not thee wound makes nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark"(I, v, 51-53). Macbeth calls on thick night to come cloak in darkness the evil deed he is about to do, he wants this so that it will not be revealed and no witnesses ... throughout the play betwe...

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... says 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! Make thick my blood. (1.5.39-42) At this moment it appears that Lady Macbeth also succumbs to evil. During Macbeth's hesitation before the murder of Duncan, Lady Macbeth attacks his pride and therefore further pushes ... ...

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... : Come you spirits And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood, Stop up th' access and passage to remorse. (Mac.1.5.39-43) Lady Macbeth is the evil and cruel power that caused Macbeth to kill the King so that he takes his place. Rephrasing what Charles Boyce says, "that Macbeths ambition ... ...

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... from then on. There was no time for further thought, only action. Everything was falling into place. Duncan was to come to stay at our home that night. If the deed were to be done, then it would need to be done quickly and the opportunity was there. I hurried on to Inverness ahead of ... felt after the deed was done. I deeply regretted my crime as soon as I"d done it. I prayed that Duncan would wake from his sleep but from that night even sleep was murdered as my conscience would not allow me the comfort of sleep. My wife told me a little water would clear us of this deed but I ... have ...

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... wash this blood clean from my hand? No- Next, the image of blood is portrayed when Macbeth calls upon the "bloody and invisible hand" of night to help the murderers he had hired carry out the assassination of Banquo and Fleance, his son. The Macbeth realizes that "blood will have blood," and ... dwarfish thief." Finally, Shakespeare also uses the imagery of animals as well. "It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman, which gives the stern'st good-night." In Act two, scene two, Lady Macbeth waits anxiously for Macbeth to return from killing Duncan, the King of Scotland. This goes ag...

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... it not, Duncan, for it is knell that summons thee to heaven, or to hell" (Act 2, scene 1). Macbeth leaves to kill Macbeth then later on that night he meets up with Lady Macbeth, they speak of Duncan and of the deed has been done. Lady Macbeth is proud of her self for putting the kings guards ... a crown but would his best friend do something like that? Moments later Macbeth enters and begins to talk to Banquo about a feast that he is having that night. Macbeth tells Banquo that the feast is going to be held in his honor. Banquo says he will be there but he must go but that he will ... a...

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... for her husband but when asked to be included in other discussions, Macbeth merely says, "Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck/Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night/Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day" (3.2.47-49). He implies that she no longer needs to help him carry out any of his evil plans. He tells ... out the accomplishment after it has been achieved, that way she may applaud her husband from the sidelines. He also mentions to her to beware of the night since the day is kind but the night is not. In addition, although Lady Macbeth wants to know more, she stays ...

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... observes further that there are no stars, "their candles are out,"" and realize that Mac Beth has been granted his wish "Stars hide you fires -(I, iv, 50) and "Come thick night (I, v, 49). There is no doubt to the audience that there is something ominous in the air. Again Shakespeare places Banquo and Mac Beth side by side so that their contrasting ... to the rear of the castle. Mac Beth it would seem has suggested that the murders take place after Banquo and Fleance have dismounted. Banquo's casual remark about "rain to night- shows that he is off-guard and informs the audience of the ...

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... 's death. An old man (Act II Scene IV) describes many of these things. He says he sees strange things on that night OLD MAN: "Withing the volume of which time I have seen Hours dreadful, and things strange; but this sore night Hath trifled former knowings." ROSS: "Ha, good father, Thou storey skies, stars moving addly with man's act" Ross's speech means that ... Macbeth and tells the lords he is fine. "Are you a man?" she asks him. Lady Macbeth asks them to leave kindly. The evening didn't go well for them. "A kind good night to all." Macbeth acted cowardly towards the lords, seeing a vi...

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