It is also strangely dark on the morning after the night of King Duncan's murder, and Ross says to the Old Man, "by the clock, ˜tis day, And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp " (2.4.6-7). ... Macbeth is asking the night to take away Banquo's life, because Banquo makes Macbeth "pale" with fear, "Come, sealing night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! ... Here, "the sightless couriers of the air" are the winds, imagined as invisible ("sightless") horses. ...

• Word Count: 1376
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• Grade Level: High School

No- Next, the image of blood is portrayed when Macbeth calls upon the "bloody and invisible hand" of night to help the murderers he had hired carry out the assassination of Banquo and Fleance, his son. ... In Act two, scene four, Ross and an old man exchange accounts of the disturbed night and the recent unnatural happenings. The heavens and animals are troubled by man's presence on earth's stage, where he performs his bloody acts. ...

• Word Count: 1290
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare shows what a man consumed by darkness can do to an entire kingdom and himself. ... "The first man who appears on the stage is the bleeding captain. The first word uttered by earthly lips is "what bloody man is that?" ... Kenneth Muir say, "the world has become a "bloody stage," Macbeth before the murder of Banquo, invokes the blood and "invisible hand" of night. ...

• Word Count: 1850
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the tragedy of Macbeth, there is a man by the name Macbeth that is one of those neutral people and Lady Macbeth, Macbeth's wife is just one of those born for evil. ... No man. ... With his words he just convinced everyone that he killed two man because he loved his king. ... Come, seeling night, scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, and with thy bloody and invisible hand cancel and tear to pieces that great bond" (Act 3, scene 2). ...

• Word Count: 1434
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This is the inescapable bond that keeps him "pale" and at Act 3 Scene 2, he states: "Come seeling night Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale" The above quote by Macbeth demonstrates that he imagines that the execution of more murderous deeds, (instigation of the murder of Banquo), will help him pursue his interest of personal safety and also destroy any personal humanity left within himself. ... At this point in the play Macbeth does not feel he is a good man anymore and is feeling so...

• Word Count: 1480
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

MACBETH Macbeth is presented as a mature man of definitely established character, successful in certain fields of activity and enjoying an enviable reputation. We must not conclude, there, that all his volitions and actions are predictable; Macbeth's character, like any other man's at a given moment, is what is being made out of potentialities plus environment, and no one, not even Macbeth himself, can know all his inordinate self-love whose actions are discovered to be-and no doubt have been for a long time- determined mainly by an inordinate desire for some temporal or mutable g...

• Word Count: 2254
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He states that "with [his] bloody and invisible hand " (3.2.50), he shall "cancel and tear to pieces that great bond " (3.2.51). ... Macbeth insatiable aspirations and perfect opportunity and you have the perfect recipe to drive a man to murder a king....

• Word Count: 1499
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By the ending of the play, she is sleepwalking through the castle, desperately trying to wash away an invisible bloodstain. ... Lady Macbeth didn't want to hear any of this and accused Macbeth of not being a man. ...

• Word Count: 1375
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School