Then, Macbeth uses dark imagery such as "ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath rung night's yawning peal" (45-47), and "[c]ome seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day" (51-52)[.] ... Macbeth calls on night to fall so darkness will hide his horrible deed. ... Later, Macbeth delivers his list "nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further"[,] and he also says his rhyme, "Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; While night's black agents to their ...

• Word Count: 1425
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

On hearing news of the night's murder, she answers as hostess: "What, in our house?" ... Although Lady Macbeth is unstable and vulnerable, she uses dramatic analogies to persuade her openly fragile husband to follow through with the first murder: I have given suck, and know How tender tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. ...

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