The "home of conscience and of pride " (Freud, 6), the superego, is responsible for Macbeth's state of torment with his conscience as his actions reach their extremity. ... For example, Macbeth states that "[he thinks he] heard a voice cry " (2.2.35) saying, "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep...Sleep that knits up the [ravelled] sleave of care " (2.2.35-38). Macbeth tries to console himself after murdering King Duncan by sleeping as he dreads that he will never get to have an "innocent sleep"" (2.2.35) again in his entire lifetime until he runs into his end. ...

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When he arrives home, Lady Macbeth has already invoked the spirits of evil to defeminise and dehumanise her, "That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose,- and she greets him with no endearments but speaks to him in a determined tone and forces him to see himself in terms of her plan for power. ... He becomes almost hysterical as he tells his wife how he has "Murdered sleep" and shall therefore not sleep any more himself. ... Unlike Macbeth however, she will do so in her sleep..In both cases it is the audience which is able to appreciate each partners anguish at thes...

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She wants him to get home quickly so she can persuade him to take the crown. ... He says how he heard a voice say, "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murdering sleep.... The sleeping and the dead/ Are but as pictures. ... She tries to wash the blood off her hands, and talks about the murders in her sleep. ...

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When Lady Macbeth learns that Duncan will be visiting their home, she prays to the devil to release her of "thy nature; (because) it is too full o" the milk of human kindness," (Act 1, Scene 5) so that she will be able to murder him. ... (Moore, www.allshakespeare.com) After doing this, she and her husband conspire to murder Duncan while he sleeps and place the blame on the two sleeping bodyguards. In Act 1, Scene 7, she says: "But screw your courage to the sticking place And we"ll not fail When in swinish sleep Their drenched natures as in a death, What cannot you and I perform upon T...

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Faced with this startling bit of information , with the completion of the second prophesy, he writes to his wife at his home in Inverness (Act 1 Scene 5). ... At the end of Act II scene 1, the murder is carried out, "'Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more:Macbeth shall sleep no more'" (lines 47 - 48). ... His peace of mind (sleep) has left him. ...

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He only speaks of the real voices that he has heard "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep" luckily the guards, which had spoken these words, had said they"re praises and drifted back to sleep. ... He plants spies in all the nobles" homes and spreads lies about Malcolm, who should rightfully inherit the throne. ...

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Before this soliloquy the Macbeth returns home to Lady Macbeth who is so confident about killing King Duncan and says that she will take it upon her hands. He watches her deceive the king and he sees how it is very wrong to kill this man in his own home. ... Another reason for not murdering Duncan is that it would be wrong to do it in his own home, and that he would be mourned so greatly. ... He then begins to visualize the goddess of witchcraft disturbing his sleep, but by the end of the hallucination he hears a bell ring symbolizing his invitation to commit the deed. ...

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The three witches are introduced right at the beginning of the play, on Macbeth''s way home from fighting in the battle for his country. ... So, in returning home, and with the help of persuasion and instigation from his wife, he kills King Duncan. ... Thou shalt not live, That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder... After this scene, Macbeth returns home and no longer worries about what he has to come because he was originally worried that Macduff would kill him. ...

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Unfortunately for Duncan, Macbeth has already began to travel toward home and the king cannot award him with his new title. ... Macbeth and Banquo go their separate ways and Macbeth returns home where he is greeted by his wife. ... Worried that the guards saw him Duncan, he them just as they are coming out of their drunken sleep. ...

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She is found at home managing household chores, awaiting Macbeth's return from battle. ... She is all duty and skillful hospitalities, greeted as "our honored hostess " by King Duncan, who favors her home. Later, serving Macbeth, and having proper knowledge of "natural herbs and all things physick," she prepares a potion to ensure the chamberlains will sleep through Duncan's murder. ...

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Macbeth's home in Scotland is heading for downfall. ... Lady Macbeth plays an important role in Macbeth's demise since she provides the scheme for Macbeth to assassinate King Duncan because he reminds her of her father when he is sleeping. ...

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Q- Was Macbeth completely to blame for his downfall? In the play there are many evil deeds that Macbeth committed. These include the murders of Duncan and Banquo, Lady Macduff and her son. Macbeth is also responsible for Scotland's disorder. Macbeth plays the main role in each incident, with the ...

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When Macbeth arrives home, she advises him to put on an innocent face and leave the rest to her. ... It is terribly ironic that Macbeth, who is throughout the play "haunted in his sleep" by what they have done, in fact ends up as the over confident one, whilst Lady Macbeth becomes so ridden by guilt, that she commits suicide. ...

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It is clear that people react different to stressful situations, some rise to meet the occasion and others crumble under the pressure of the moment. Shakespeare depicts this differentiation quite well through his characters – Macbeth and Lady Macbeth – in his play Macbeth. Some would say that Ma...

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