These people were singled out for things like owning black cats, when washing clothes theirs came out cleaner, if you lived alone and wore black clothes then you put forward as being a witch. ... Macbeth shows his confusion straight away, "The Thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me In borrow"d robes?" ... Let not light see my black and deep desires" Macbeth is saying here that he must keep his thoughts to himself. ... Unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty" This spell is showing us that Lady Macbeth wants all her female qualities take...

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• Grade Level: High School

[S] Initially, Macbeth is far from evil within: "Chance may crown me, without my stir," preferring to let fate lead his future. ... He is willing to be swayed by his wife, but also has the force of character to follow difficult actions - like killing King Duncan - once he has been convinced. ... Macbeth says to Banquo "Do you not hope your children shall be kings," when "those that promised the thane of Cawdor to me" also "promised no less to them?" ... His aspirations come out further as he says to Fleance, his son, "Merciful powers, Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature" gives "...

• Word Count: 2918
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

/ Let not light see my black and deep desires" (I.iv.50-51). ... These rhymes make the text to sound like a spell or curse that invokes evil. ... His description of them is important in seeing how unnatural they are: "you should be women,/ And yet your beards forbid me to interpret/ That you are so" (I.iii.45-47). ... She is then the one who is ordering her husband around, telling him exactly how to behave: "To beguile the time,/ Look like the time [...] look like the innocent flower/ But be the serpent under't" (I.v.61-64). ... Furthermore, Lady Macbeth is very close to the character of ...

• Word Count: 2650
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• Grade Level: High School

For instance, a black cat, a dark night, a dark place are all symbols of evil. ... And live a coward in thine own esteem, letting I dare not Wait, wait upon I would, like the poor cat I the adage."... The only way to prove to himself and his wife that he cares about her like he did before is to kill Macbeth. ... "Stars, hide your fires; / Let not light see my black and deep desires: / The eye wink at the hand! ... Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angel, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of ...

• Word Count: 12917
• Approx Pages: 52
• Grade Level: High School

They are seen talking to each other, and bringing up many dark and evil spell-like phrases. ... Why do you dress me In borrowed robes?" ... Let not light see my black and deep desires." ... You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so." ... "Leave all the rest to me." ...

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Like her husband, she cannot find any rest, but she is suffering more clearly from a psychological disorder that causes her to talk in her sleep about the murders of Duncan, Banquo, and Lady Macduff. ... Macbeth like his wife is loosing contact with reality. ... A great play like Macbeth intertwines a variety of elements into a unified whole. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This is shown by the trance-like Macbeth, his raptness when the witches first tempt him and seeing Banquo's ghost, indicating he is the victim of demonic possession. ... It was thought that a coven of witches in North Berwickshire had tried to practice the black arts against him. ... "Macbeth" was a play like this. ...

• Word Count: 3254
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School