In act 3, scene 2 line 65, Macbeth stated: "No son of mine succeeding, if it be so for Banquo's issue have I filled my mind, for them the gracious Duncan I have murdered." ... In act 1, scene 4, line 50, Macbeth declared: "Stars hide your fires, let not light see my deep and dark desires." ... In act 1 scene 7 line 25, Macbeth stated: "I have no spur to prick the sides of intent, but only vaulting ambition, which overleaps itself and falls on another." ... However the illusion of his invincibility caused him to act, when it was too late. ... There in front of all the lords" lady Macbet...

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In the play "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare the protagonist Macbeth mindset changes throughout the play with certain events that influence his mentality. ... In the first Act one accounts Macbeth as being a brave and worthily warrior who is a hero of Scotland. ... (Act 1 Sc 7-Li 13-16). ... (Act 2 Sc 2-Li-58-59). ... It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing" (Act 5 Sc-5 Li-16-27). ...

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"All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter." ... Macbeth had to act on a whim, guessing what he had to do next, when he receives his title. ... Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth." ... The apparition also ceases Macbeth's ability to think things through. ... Macbeth's death shows that the witches were some bad dudes. ...

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He calls her things like his "dearest partner of greatness" (Act I; v line ii). ... / Give me the daggers" Act II; ii line 52-53). ... When Lady Macbeth asks about it, Macbeth says: "Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck" (Act III; iii line 45). ... Still, at the banquet, Lady Macbeth retains some control and tries to get Macbeth to act normally when he sees Banquo's ghost. ... He seems to think of it as an inconvenience than a tragedy ("She should have died hereafter / There would have been time for such a word" Act V; v line 17-18). ...

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Lady Macbeth Responsible For Duncan's Death John Keating English Honors Lady Macbeth Must Take Some Blame for Her Husband's Destruction In Macbeth, a play written by Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth is partially responsible for the destruction of her husband. ... Although Macbeth had the thought of killing Duncan, he would not have acted on that thought unless Lady Macbeth persuaded him. ... We see Macbeth's hesitance to murder the king when he lists reasons not to kill Duncan in Act 1, when he says, "He's here in double trust: / First, as I am his kinsman and...

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Shakespeare's tragic hero Macbeth in the play "Macbeth" is a man of noble birth who falls from a position of honor and respect due to a flaw in his character. ... Another reason for Macbeth's downfall was Lady Macbeth or an outside force of evil such as the witches. Although Lady Macbeth exerts a certain influence on him, Macbeth's downfall is caused by his own character. ... Lady Macbeth proves herself to be just as ambitious and influences her husband to act upon getting the crown. ... But yet, it was not Lady Macbeth who put the dagger inside Duncan, it was Macbeth who kille...

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Since the start of the play, Lady Macbeth is shown as an ambitious woman who can manipulate Macbeth very easily. In Act 1, Lady Macbeth states, "That I may pour my spirits in thine ear" (1.5.25), meaning that she wants to use her evil influence to convince Macbeth to act against Duncan. ... Lady Macbeth is even more ambitious. ... At one point when Macbeth is disagreeing with her plan of killing Duncan, she puts into doubt his manliness, "Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act and valor as thou art in desire? ... Moreover, it is Macbeth who kills the guards that he and Lady Macbeth ha...

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ACT II, Sc.ii and Malcolm's assessment of her as a "fiend-like queen" (Act IV, Sc.vii). ... Does she show herself strong willed and more determined than Macbeth, Act I, Sc.vii, as she argues and demands his agreement to the murder? ... In Act II, Sc.ii, when she calls for help does she do so because of her feminie weakness, or is she afraid that Macduff may question Macbeth further as to his killing of the chamberlains? ... Unhappiness - In Act III, Sc.ii, Lady Macbeth is coming to realise that the Crown has not brought happiness, "Nought's had, all's spent, Where our desire is ...

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One witch shouts, "All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter" (Act I, Scene iii, li 50). ... Worthy gentleman" (Act I, scene ii, li 24). ... Lady Macbeth says, "Yet do I fear thy nature;/It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness/To catch the nearest way" (Act I, scene v, li 15-17). ... Upon a debate with Banquo where Banquo discourages evil actions from Macbeth, Macbeth decides that "if chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me/Without my stir" (Act I, scene iii, li 143-144). ... His final decisions is made when he tells Lady Macbe...

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Shakespeare's Macbeth explores the values, attitudes and beliefs present during medieval times through the construction of characters such as: Duncan, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. ... Duncan's character acted in correspondence with the natural order of life in the medieval world whereby one had to rightfully earn their position. ... Macbeth's portrayal as a murderous deceitful traitor, positions him in the dark light of the unnatural world. ... Thus under the leadership of Macbeth the lands are rife with disorder as Macbeth is in a position which is not rightfully his. ... Lady Mac...

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"When you durst do it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man" (Act 1, Scene 7- lines 56 and 57). ... "But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail" (Act 1, Scene 7- lines 70 and 71). ... This also shows that this act of evil intent was all on Lady Macbeth's shoulders; that she is the cause of King Duncan's death. ... (Act 1, Scene 7- lines 53 to 55). ... I would, while it was smiling in my face, have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed his brains out, had I so sworn as you have done this...

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" This classic saying may as well have been inspired by the role of Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's "Macbeth." ... In Act II Scene II, after Macbeth has murdered Duncan, Lady Macbeth still seems to be unmoved by what they have done. ... In Act II Scene III, the reader is also left to wonder if Lady Macbeth's fainting is just part of her act, or a realization of the horrible thing she and her husband have done. Without a doubt, Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking in Act V Scene I is a testament to how unhinged and guilt-ridden she has become. ... It is through Lady Macbeth that Macbe...

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Macbeth is a lord of Scotland and Thane of Glamis. ... And people do talk about him like he is: "For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name- (Act I, scene 2, line 16). ... Macbeth is very loyal to the king until he meets the witches. ... In the aside he makes in Act I scene 4 , we can see he is not loyal to the king anymore: "Let not light see my black and deep desires-(line 51). ... In act I scene 3, lines 131-132-133 he says: "if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth?...

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Macbeth's action's lead to his very nemises. ... Lady Macbeth is the second reason for Macbeth's tragedy; without her support in aiding his decision, Macbeth would have never had the strength to lie, scheme, and destroy to such extremes. The last, and most devastating to Macbeth, was his cripled conscious which made him act out of selfeshness and lust. ... The witches first address Macbeth as king, and Banguo as one "Lesser than Macbeth... But now we are introduced to Lady Macbeth. ...

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The first reference to blood is in Act 2, Scene 1, when Macbeth sees the dagger floating in the air leading him to Duncan"s room and he sees "on the blade and dudgeon gouts of blood", indicating that the knife has been visciously and violently stabbed into someone. The next reference, in Scene 2, is when Lady Macbeth smears the blood from the dagger on the faces and hands of the sleeping servants "I"ll guild the faces of the grooms withal, for it must seem their guilt". ... In Act 5, Scene 1, the sleepwalking scene, while Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking, there are constant references to the evil ...

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Macbeth is a play majorly concerned with the battle between good and evil - throughout the play we continually see signs of a supernatural struggle between the two, with evil 'winning' over good when Macbeth finally murders the king and also when good finally defeats evil when Macbeth is slain. ... When we first see her in Act I scene V her duplicity can be seen when she says, "Look like th'innocent flower but be the serpent under't"." ... Also in the same soliloquy in Act I, Scene V the language used is often connected to violence. ... The actions and words of Lady Macbet...

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In Act I, scene 3, we again see the feminine presence through the witches. ... In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and the witches, succumbing to greed, corrupted Macbeth. ... Lady Macbeth followed through with this idea by pushing Macbeth to kill Duncan... Lady Macbeth makes a sex weapon in her efforts to spur Macbeth's ambition." ... Lady Macbeth actually feeds off of Macbeth's acts of violence. ...

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The Shakespearean play MacBeth deals with madness as an important theme. Both MacBeth and Lady Macbeth, due to there excessive greed lose sight of what is right and wrong. ... MacBeth, not being in the correct state of mind, Lady MacBeth pushes him over the edge every chance that she gets. ... How do you make sense of a senseless act? Is it madness or is it a willful evil act? ...

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"Lady Macbeth is often regarded as the epitome of evil. ... 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. ... Lady Macbeth does not accept her husband's decision to pull out of the murder plot. ... This makes the audience wonder whether Macbeth is the villain or actually the victim and our resentment towards Lady Macbeth increases. ... Lady Macbeth is instrumental in convincing Macbeth to murder Dun...

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In the play, "Macbeth," animal imagery is an important device used to bring light to change. ... After Macbeth kills Duncan, there is a lot of pathetic fallacy used through animal imagery. ... In Act 1 Scene 7, Lady Macbeth uses animal imagery to stop her husband from having cold feet about murder. ... This tactic works on Macbeth, and he kills Duncan. ... The castle is stated to put one at ease and calm, however in Act 2, Scene 3, Lennox says "prophesying with accents terrible/ Of dire combustion and confused events/ New hatched to the woeful time. ...

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Lady Macbeth and the witches continually influence Macbeth in a negative manner; additionally, Banquo has inversely affected Macbeth's deliberations. ... Macbeth's perverted ambitions began to drive him. The possibility of obtaining the crown becomes the necessary motivation for him to act upon his aspirations. ... Lady Macbeth's influence over Macbeth's choices was much greater than that of the witches. ... Macbeth independently made-up his mind to how he intends to act. ...

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