Just before he talks: "I go, and it is done: the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven, or to hell" (2.1.62-64). ... Lennox and some other people then assume that the servants killed the king even though the servants were not the ones who killed him. It looks like that Macbeth did a pretty good job of framing them. ... "To half a soul and to a notion crazed say thus did Banquo." (3.1.82-84) Macbeth tells the murderers that Banquo killed the king so that they could kill Banquo easily. ...

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Throughout the play evil is present in many forms, destroying whatever good there is. ... Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, "Hold, hold!" ... He sends for two murderers and says: "So he is mine, and in such bloody distance, That every minute of his being thrusts Against my near'st of life: and though I could With barefaced power sweep him from my sight And bid my will avouch it, yet I must not, For certain friends that are both his and mi...

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• Grade Level: High School