The play is full of events and personalities, natural and unnatural. ... Lady Macbeth's conscience is revealed when she is seen talking in her sleep. ... When she says, " What's done cannot be undone" she realizes that now it's to late to "wash" away the blood, it has stained her soul forever. ... This tells us that the night was full of evil and everyone was aware of it. ... One physical event that is very disturbing to the natural eye was Macbeth's outburst at the banquet. ...

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When Lady Macbeth first hears of the Witches" prophecy for her husband, she states that he is too cowardly to do what needs to be done, so she plans the first murder herself. ... Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o" th" milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. ... (1. 5. 15) Soon after she is heard asking the spirits, "Unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty (1. 5. 48)." ... "Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil (2. 2. 69)," and proceeds to plant the daggers herself. ... She continues to do this, and Macbeth b...

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Macbeth: She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word "(Shakespeare, Act V, Scene V). ... She really is excited to see him, but beneath her happiness is a plot of deceit and murder. Lady Macbeth: Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men may read strange matters:-To beguile the time, look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it (Shakespeare, Act 1, Scene III). She is telling him that his face can easily be read and that he needs to act like normal, but underneath to be cunning...

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He also proceeds to say immediately after, "The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be/Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see,"" which means that Macbeth is concerned with what will become of his soul once the evil deed of murdering Duncan is committed. ... He continues to descend into darkness, and even describes himself appropriately to Seyon in (V, v, 11-18): " I have supped full with horrors.... It is a tale/Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/Signifying nothing."" ... Although Lady Macbeth was part of the plan to murder Duncan, she did not actually commit the crime. ... Lad...

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Lady Macbeth knows that her husband is too kind to kill Duncan without her help she fears "thy nature; / It is too full o'th" milk of human kindness / to catch the nearest way" (I.v.16-18). ... Although she seems to have no conscience, we see at the end when she is sleepwalking, that she is deeply troubled. ... Her fear of darkness shows the audience that she regrets what she has done and that she knows what she did was wrong. ... Macbeth expresses his desire to be able to kill Duncan even though he knows he will regret it when he says, "The eye wink at the hand, yet let...

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Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare's most brilliant pieces that catch the reader's eye of all ages. ... Lady Macbeth is the same but yet has some differences because she wants Macbeth to be king but believes Macbeth is " too full of the milk o" human kindness to catch the nearest way." (I, IV, 17-18) She wants to transfer her strength and ruthlessness to Macbeth so that he"ll " catch the nearest way." ... Lady Macbeth is not much better as a servant has called in for a doctor to come and listen to her as she sleepwalks. ... The only difference in this event is that Lady Macbeth sl...

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She doesn't seem to second guess her choices because of that confidence. ... " As you can tell by that quote, Lady Macbeth is becoming quite uneasy and somewhat wishes she was the one being murdered instead of being the murderer. ... And thence it is, that I to your assistance do make love, masking the business from the common eye for sundry weighty reasons.... By the end of act three, Macbeth is showing his new strength and using it to his full advantage while Lady Macbeth is slowly starting to slip into her weak future self. ... It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fu...

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She is full of "Dutch courage," and boasting of her part in the plot to murder Duncan. ... She was willing and prepared to commit a terrible murder. ... She also mutters exclamatory utterances, "Hark! ... We are already aware that Lady Macbeth thinks her husband is "too full o'th milk of human kindness" from Act I and had she not convinced his to murder the king none of the trouble they are encountering would have occurred. ... He is like this until Lady Macbeth takes the situation into her hands and says "tis the eye of childhood." and even though her "hands are of Macbeth's colou...

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In her soliloquy she asked the spirits to: " Unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty Come, thick night, And pull 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 was "too full o" the milk of human kindness" (Shakespeare, I, v, 17) in her point of view; his gentleness would get in the way of their plans, which was the case. She was forced, under her own circumstance, to bring out the worse she could think of. She had to someho...

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It is a gloomy play, full of darkness and evil. ... When Lady Macbeth is preparing for Duncan's murder, she calls on the spirits of darkness and evil: "The raven himself hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty! ... 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 ...

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She is very vocal about her desires, and says she will do whatever it takes to get what she wants. ... "Come, you spirits/ that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,/ And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full/ Of direst cruelty!... She says how glad she is to have him there and how loyal she is to him, but little does he know that she wants him dead. ... She calls him a coward and a child before she leaves. ... 'Tis the eye of childhood/ That fears a painted devil. ...

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"Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty.... She even openly "orders" the supernatural forces to "unsex her", as if she could not reconcile her malevolent, evil intentions with the fact that she was a woman. ... "Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. ... Bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue. ... She rejoices and exults that soon she will be able to embrace her family again and be able to serve the ...

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First, he uses animal imagery to deliver the following statements: "We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it" (3.2.15)[,] and " O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife" (40)[.] ... Lady Macbeth is unhappy even after she's achieved her desires. ... Lady Macbeth says that nothing has been gained while she and Macbeth have lost everything. To comfort Macbeth, she tells him that they can't do anything to change their past. ... Lady Macbeth's weariness is revealed when she says "How now, my lord! ...

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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. ... Macbeth also feels that the killing of Duncan has cut him off from God, because before the...

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Macbeth writes to Lady Macbeth to tell her everything that has happened and when she has finished reading the letter the audience see how ambitious and evil she is. Straight away she says that Duncan will have to die. ... 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 taken form her and swapped with male evil qualities. ... Lady Macbeth says to him, " Tis eye of childhood That fears a painted devil" Here Lady Macbeth is saying that only someone who has had a troubled childhood shou...

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With her words and her love for her husband she changed his mind. ... When she became the queen of Scotland something that she never thought would happen happened. She could not sleep because she could not stop dreaming about Duncan and his body that was scattered with blood. She would keep on washing her hands so the blood would disappear but it was not helping her because soon after she died. ... "Stars, hide your fires; / Let not light see my black and deep desires: / The eye wink at the hand! ...

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He is concerned about what may have kept him awake and comments: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,  And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;  But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain  Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. ... Ironically he speaks of a dream he had that night, "If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand" (Act V,I) He dreamt that Juliet found him dead but she kissed him back to life. ... She will wake and kill herself with his dagger. ...

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