Betrayal, secrets and cold blooded murder are all things that can be found in Shakespeare's theatrical masterpiece, "Macbeth." This is a well-known tragedy of a man so driven by greed that he would kill not only the King, but also his good friend. It is easy to see that it was Macbeth who killed Kin...
Then, Macbeth 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)[.] ... Macbeth calls on night to fall so darkness will hide his horrible deed. ... Later, Macbeth delivers his list "nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further"[,] and he also says his rhyme, "Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; While night's black agents to their ...
Lady Macbeth becomes so fond of the idea of becoming Queen of Scotland that she mocks her husband by questioning his masculinity and saying that she would stop at nothing in order to get what she wants and she would never break a promise; "How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, and dash'd his brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this". ... " She continually re-lives the night of the murder. ...
On hearing news of the night's murder, she answers as hostess: "What, in our house?" ... Although Lady Macbeth is unstable and vulnerable, she uses dramatic analogies to persuade her openly fragile husband to follow through with the first murder: I have given suck, and know How tender tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. ...
