She asks him if he is a man, tells him that he will be "so much more a man" (I, vii) after murdering Duncan. ... "His two chamberlains will I with wine and wassel so convince," (I, vii.) and cleaning up afterwards, "Give me the daggers: the sleeping, and the dead are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil. ... He was a brave and strong man "brave Macbeth, Bellona's Bridegroom" (I, iii) who could resist outside influences and make his own decision. ... It was Macbeth who agreed with them, Macbeth who committed the murder, Macbeth who decided to continue ...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.... I have longer to please the dead than to please the living here" (Antigone, 85-89). ... Even while walking down to the road, under guard, to her tomb where she would be imprisoned, she openly proclaims, "O tomb, my bridal-bed-my house, my prison cut in the hollow rock, my everlasting watch! I'll soon be there, soon embrace my own, the great growing family of our dead my arrival may be dear to father, dear to you, my mother, dear to you, my loving brother, Eteocles" (Antigone, 978-988) Under the worst circumsta...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Fatally flawed, though his character was, with "Vaulting ambition" Macbeth is basically a good man. ... The final straw is when she accuses of him of not being man enough to do it. "When you durst, then you were a man." ... He seems weary of life and decides that " Life's but a walking shadow .Signifying nothing." ... He acknowledged the mental torment he was causing himself and chose to carry on in spite of it, by being a man of action. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

One of the people is quite an old, plump woman wearing a large black dress, the other a tall, mature man wearing smart classy clothes. ... This is her very guise, and upon my life fast asleep", the young women is walking, her eyes stare straight ahead, unblinking. She is constantly rubbing her hands, the mature man who is in fact a doctor asks, "What is it she does now? ... She acts out her part, the backdrop becomes a deeper blood coloured red, while red lights above the stage shine onto her, "Yet who would have thought the man to have so much blood in him", she says this as images of the ...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Give me the daggers; the sleeping, and the dead are but as pictures; "tis the eye of childhood that dears a painted devil. ... Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him! ... This shame that lurks inside of her is so strong that it is coming out subconsciously in sleep walking episodes. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

There is a significance in this moment because Macbeth is tampering with fate, directly opposing the prophecies of the witches to attempt ensure that Fleance does not become king after he is dead. ... His wife, Lady Macbeth, cunningly convinces him in a speech targeted at his emotions, specifically those of pride, that in order to be a man and show his love for her, he must kill Duncan. ... Her restrained emotions inevitably build up, and by the fifth act she has become completely psychotic, washing her hands compulsively, walking and talking in her sleep, and demanding to be surround...

• Word Count: 1512
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School