In Macbeth, there are many different references to these two elements, and each one is connected to certain symbols which take the form of animals, plants, day, and night. ... It is also strangely dark on the morning after the night of King Duncan's murder, and Ross says to the Old Man, "by the clock, ˜tis day, And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp " (2.4.6-7). This signifies the start of darkness taking over Scotland, but can also be seen as a metaphor for Duncan's life being ˜strangled' by Macbeth, ˜the dark night'. ... Macbeth is asking th...

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Macbeth leaves to kill Macbeth then later on that night he meets up with Lady Macbeth, they speak of Duncan and of the deed has been done. ... Later on that night Macduff and Lannox come to wake the king. ... Moments later Macbeth enters and begins to talk to Banquo about a feast that he is having that night. ... Later on that night before the feast Macbeth talks with Lady Macbeth and she wants to know what he is up to. ... 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" (Act 3, scene 2). ...

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There are many indications that the Scottish nobility finds him a valued member of society; the naive Duncan even chooses to spend the night at Inverness with Macbeth and his wife, displaying the degree of trust Macbeth has garnered in Duncan's employ. Labelling his wife, his 'dearest partner of greatness', clearly Macbeth shows tender and noble qualities beyond just being a 'butcher'. ... She offers an allusion to a tragic past when she admits she has 'given suck and know[s] how tender 'tis to love the babe' she had – but there is no further ...

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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 ...

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He that's coming must be provided for: and you shall put this night's great business into my dispatch which shall to all our nights and days to come give solely sovereign sway and masterdom. ... How tender "tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was milking in my face, have pluck"d my nipple from his boneless gums, and dash"d the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this. ...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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In addition she declared a horrific speech "How tender "tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck"d my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash"d the brains out, had I sworn to you Have done to this." ... His king was a guest at the time of murder, on this very night Macbeth was King Duncan" host and had responsibility to protect his guest. ...

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