Yet increasingly his ambition defeated his good nature. ... Since he overcomed his good nature, he no longer needed to be with his friend Banquo. ... Through the development of this tragedy, Macbeth has turned from a fine natured person to an evil person. ... But we must not, therefore, deny him an entirely human complexity of motives. ... He recognizes that the acts of conscience which torture him are really expressions of that outraged natural law, which inevitably reduced him as individual to the essentially human. ...

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We must not, therefore, deny him an entirely human complexity of motives. ... In the main, his nature violently demands rewards: he fights valiantly in order that he may be reported in such terms a "valour's minion" and "Bellona's bridegroom." ... Much of Macbeth's natural good remains unimpaired; environment has conspired with his nature to make him upright in all his dealings with those about him. ... It is to be doubted whether he has ever so far considered the possible effects of crime and evil upon the human soul. ... Macbeth cannot escape entirely from his proper order;...

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Reading aloud allows the audience to see her true character straight away revealing her cruel and cold nature. She is determined to persuade Macbeth to act on the supernatural prophecies knowing his nature "Is too full o'th'milk of human kindness- and any sympathy the audience may have is directed towards Macbeth rather than his wife. ... This hints that she is not quite the hard, unfeeling villain of the piece, but one who, if she is to attain what she aims at, will also have to reckon with those feelings of human nature. ...

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Because of Macbeth's violent, volatile nature, it is very difficult for one to like him. ... In Act I, ii, 75-78, the Captain notes a previous incident in which Macbeth displayed his warrior-like nature: "For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name),/Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel,/Which smoked with bloody execution,/Like valor's minion, carved out his passage/Till he faced the slave;/ Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,/Till he unseamed him from the nave to th' chops,/And fixed his head upon our battlements."" ... Although Macbeth simply ...

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Exploring a ruthless reality, William Shakespeare's Macbeth highlights human nature's desire for power, and the lengths one will go to obtain it. ... " Macbeth is too full of 'human kindness', yet is a loyal husband who feels that he must prove himself as a man, which allows Lady Macbeth to use her mental strength to associate the act of killing Duncan to his commitment to her. ...

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Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purposeCome to my woman's breasts And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers," (Macbeth, I, v, 50-55) This time, Lady Macbeth not only acknowledges her malevolent convictions, but desires her blood to be saturated with murderous agents to the extent that none of the natural, stereotypical "womanly feelings", or "compunctious visitings of nature" will be left to hinder her from committing her evil deeds. ... "Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too f...

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