They are often critical to the plot of a story and are intrinsically demonstrative of a major focus the genre: that which is hidden, or cast off, repressed and defies orthodoxy. ... It conjures up beings - mad monks, vampires, and demons - and settings - forbidding cliffs and glowering buildings, stormy seas and the dizzying abyss - that have literary significance and the properties of dream symbolism as well. ... Dreams, by definition, are not subject to the rules of linear, rational, thought, are subjective, happen in the dark and use a kind of "shadow logic", meaning that they s...

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They are that he will become the thane of Glamis, thane of Cawdor and the king of Scotland. " All hail, Macbeth! ... All of the characters in this play that represented evil got what they deserved but there is character such as Duncan and banquo who did not get what they deserved but if it was not for them the evil would of not been destroyed. ... "Will it not be received, / When we have mark"d with blood those sleepy two / Of his own chamber, and used their very daggers, / That they have done't?" ...

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