The Human Conscience The conscience of the human mind can have a big role on people. ... The power of the human mind led these two to eventually confess into the sins that they both had done so easily before. ... These two stories show how the human mind can be a dangerous weapon when something goes wrong. ... The two together show how you can talk people into doing anything, but keeping them from finding out is the hardest thing to do in life when common human nature is to tell the truth when questioned. ...

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Nature vs. ... When Lady Macbeth learns that Duncan will be visiting their home, she prays to the devil to release her of "thy nature; (because) it is too full o" the milk of human kindness," (Act 1, Scene 5) so that she will be able to murder him. ... Therefore it can be said that in Shakespearean society, since evilness was a product of the innate human sin of greed, then evilness itself was also inherent to a person's nature. ... As such, our society has contributed dozens of theories as to the meaning and origin of evil in human kind as we know it. In the field of psychology, there...

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Lady Macbeth lacks the conscience which her husband is plagued with and says, "I do fear thy nature; it is too full o" th" milk of human kindness"(pg. 31). ... The will of man can be easily twisted through the use of language and by provoking certain human emotions. ... However, once Macbeth's hands are stained with the King's blood, he is not hesitant to commit another murder as if it were second nature. ...

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Macbeth is a complicated character whose human nature means that he possesses both good and evil traits. ... It is human nature to be susceptible to evil thought. The extent to which Macbeth is willing to act tips the scales to the side of his villainous nature. ... 'Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature?' ... Macbeth's evil nature is revealed by reference to hiding it. ...

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Macbeth's weakness is shown in lines 133-136 where he states, "If good, why do I yield to that suggestion, whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seared heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature?" ... We learn that she thinks he is "too full o'th"milk of human kindness" (Line 15). ... 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 he value Duncan as a human because he shows so much love and admiration for him. ... In other words, who dares murder is n...

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The secondary purpose of the line is to foreshadow Duncan's demise due to his easily trusting nature. That easily trusting nature proves to be a drawback for not only Duncan, but also his subject, Macbeth. ... Every human being needs a sense of security, which is mankind's greatest downfall. ... Even with that necessary sense of security, every human being possesses some amount of doubt. ...

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"To Know My Deed, "Twere Best Not Know Myself" How was it possible for such an admirable and noble man, so established in society, to fall so greatly into a dilemma, full of murderous plots and deceit? In William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the idea of one character becoming both victim and villain is in...

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It presents situations which deal with common ground of man's social experience rather than limits of his behaviour - it is not life in the tragic mode, lived at the difficult and perilous limits of the human condition. ... Shakespeare shows disturbed, angry nature - thunder and lighting represent light - daytime and dark - night-time. ... But the world is a nightmare; "to be" means to escape to live in another world where: " Rebellious dead, rise never... ... and our high-placed Macbeth Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath To time and mortal custom" /IV.i.98/ ...

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And it was Lady Macbeth's control over her husband that led him to destruction and murder; It was Lady Macbeth that comes up with the plan to kill Duncan because she knew that Macbeth wouldn't do it because of his nature. "He is to full o the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way (I. iv.15-). ... And when he becomes king his determination to keep the throne becomes an obsession and his passionate nature causes him to become out of control. ... His passionate and obsessive nature prevents him from holding onto all he has worked for. ...

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We see how clever she is and how she understands her husband well, she knows he has great ambitions, but she also knows that he is honourable and mentally weak: "yet I do fear thy nature, it is too full o'th milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. ... In the beginning of the play she prayed to the spirits that she would have 'no remorse' and that she should have 'no compunctious visitings of nature' that might prevent her from murdering Duncan. ... We later find out that she kills herself 'by self and violent nature.' ...

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make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! ... The three witches, and their queen Hecate contribute a lot of evil to the play by interfering with human lives. ... At the banquet, after seeing Banquo's ghost, Macbeth reassures himself that there is nothing wrong with killing, "Blood hath been shed...

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Humans had a distinctive position in this chain. ... This chaos is shown through changes in weather patterns and nature. ... The sun not rising in the morning after the murder strongly indicates that chaos is reflected in nature. ... He sees Scotland as a metaphor for a human and by draining its "blood" he will be able to cure its "sickness". ... It was Elizabethan belief that women were not powerful and did not possess the qualities that enabled them to control aspects of nature and society. ...

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Her fear of his kind nature shows he has the ambition but not the disposition, "Yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full o" the milk of human kindness" The word "milk" symbolizes metaphorically the purity and goodness of Macbeth's nature (it also represents Lady Macbeth's persona, when she begs the spirits to exchange wholesomeness for gall to make the mind bitter). ... Also, by asking the spirits to amend her shows Lady Macbeth makes herself believe she does not have to take responsibility for her actions as she says to them, "You wait on nature's mischief". ... This clot...

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"BY CLOSE REFERENCE TO HIS SOLILOQUIES, EXAMINE THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF MACBETH"S INNER CONFLICTS." ... The nature and extent of his conflicts is only exhibited it its fullest and purest form in his soliloquies. ... His thoughts immediately turn to murder but the nature of it is too horrendous for him bear as he said, "Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, / And make my seated heart knock at my ribs". ... An act as gruesome as this goes against everything Macbeth stood for and Lady Macbeth herself declared that he was,"too full o" the milk of human kindness", to commit this crime. ... A c...

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Lady Macbeth says, "Yet do I fear thy nature;/It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness/To catch the nearest way" (Act I, scene v, li 15-17). Murdering seems like a task Macbeth is unable to complete because of his good natured personality. ...

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There is an immediate thought of murder which Macbeth reveals his to the audience in his aside: "Why do I yield to that suggestion/Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair/And make my seated heart knock at my ribs/Against the use of nature?"" ... The moment Lady Macbeth learns of the witches prophecy, she says, "Yet I do fear thy nature;/ It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness/To catch the nearest way " (Act 1, Scene 5, lines 13-15). ...

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Lady Macbeth states, "I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it" (I, V, 3-7) fearing Macbeth will not take the nearest chance to commit the murder in order to take the throne. ... Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature (I, V, 30-33)," so she doesn't feel remorse and she can go on with her plan. ... Macbeth then doubts, "If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix m...

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Lady Macbeth's symbol of blood is something that relates her more closely to mortals or people, "too full o" th" milk of human kindness," so she wants no parts of it. ... Stop up th" access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Th" affect and it. ... Despite the pleas to supernatural powers, compunctious visitings of nature do exactly what they are asked not to do. Lady Macbeth's stone heart and ruthless nature is punctured by compunctious visitings in her sleep that make her so sick she no longer has the ...

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Aristotle defined the tragic hero as the following: " The tragic hero must be neither villain nor a virtuous man but a character between these two extremes a man who's not eminently good and just, yet whose misfortune is brought about not by vice or depravity but by some error or human frailty." ... Against the use of nature?" ... He believes that they have knowledge beyond what any human could possibly know. ...

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Ambition is a characteristic of human nature. There is good ambition and there is ambition can expressed in an evil manner that can transform a person to evil. For example for good ambition, people must have ambition to chase other people who is stronger or more powerful then him. So this world can ...

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People have a hard time getting what they want. Shakespeare's Macbeth did the unthinkable to get what he desired. He not only committed the treasonable act of regicide, but he murdered his friend Banquo, and slaughtered the wife and children of Macduff. The honorable status of a noble war hero wa...

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"It is the responsibility of the writer to expose our many grievous faults and failures and to hold up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams, for the purpose of improvement." This quote suggests that writers must face their failures and confront their dangerous desires for purpose of learning f...

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The only problem is that she fears Macbeth " too full o" the milk of human kindness" to do the deed. ... She is going against her better nature and intuition. ... Macbeth is a dead butcher, he shows this from his violent nature even when it was directed towards serving his king, and again when he begins the murders of his own planning. ... From the first speech we can see that Lady Macbeth is not a fiend-like queen, to be fiendish is to be an intensely malicious or wicked person, these are not characteristics which suddenly develop they are those which are part of a person's nature always...

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These phrases show that Macbeth, at point, is human and that there is uncertainty in his heart. ... [M] An honest description of Macbeth is given by his wife Lady Macbeth when she tells of his being "too full o' the milk of human kindness." ... It is a perversion of his nature to murder. ... His aspirations come out further as he says to Fleance, his son, "Merciful powers, Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature" gives "way to in repose!" ...

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For one to fully understand Macbeth's decent into hell, one must define evil and have an idea of how the process of evil effects the decent. One may relate the process of evil to a virus. Evil is a thing that one chooses to come into their life, and if one does choose for it to be a part of their ...

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