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    through the blankets of the dark‚ curtains that blow like no other wind. How is’t with me I feel an unruly creature has come upon me‚ have I not been deprived of my feminine instinct? O‚ the guilt pays no sympathy to my heart‚ pulling and tugging on the strings that keep my heart whole. Slowly crawling and devouring my palms. What is this I see before my hands? I have done no harm. My hands are of his colour to wash my hands or not‚ thee gout of blood stays. Macbeth faulted in our quest‚ incapable

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    of the horror is implicit in Macbeths dagger soliloquy in scene 1. a)Why does Macbeth refer to the dagger as a fatal vision?Macbeth refers to the dagger as a fatal vision (II.i.36) because it foreshadows his deadly intent to kill King Duncan. Macbeth is obviously under great mental torment‚ which is the cause of his hallucination of the imaginary dagger. He imagines the dagger‚ covered with gouts of blood (II.i.46)‚ leading him to Duncans room. This image shows Macbeths fatal ambition as he follows

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    Conniving Wrath of Lady Macbeth In Macbeth written by William Shakespeare‚ Lady Macbeth is known for manipulating her husband‚ Macbeth. The witches prophesied Macbeth would be king and Lady Macbeth took action. Lady Macbeth had very power-hungry ambitions. Her ambition was so big and it got out of hand and it affected Macbeth. Her ambition led him to be the man that he turned out to be. Macbeth hesitated to kill Duncan since Duncan rewarded him with Thane of Cawdor. Lady Macbeth went out of her way

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    Tracing A Word: Blood Act 1 1.) A. Quotation and speaker: Lady Macbeth: Bring forth men-children only; For thy undaunted mettle should compose Nothing but males. 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? (1.7.72-77) B. Paraphrase and clarification: Hopefully you will only have male children‚ For you should compose nothing that isn’t masculine. When we have marked the servants

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    The Tragedy of Macbeth Act V Scene 1 – The royal castle at Dunsinane 1. A doctor and a waiting gentlewoman witness the sleepwalking of Lady Macbeth‚ who has become afraid of the dark and carries a light with her wherever she goes. She begins to talk in her sleep‚ frantically wringing her hands together as she laments that they will never again be clean; she then unwittingly implicates herself and her husband in the murders of Duncan‚ Banquo‚ and Lady Macduff. Scene 2 – The country outside

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    Mental illness affects approximately 1 in 4 people‚ including Macbeth from Shakespeare’s famous play‚ The Tragedy of Macbeth. Illnesses like schizophrenia and psychopathy impact about one percent of the population. In the play‚ Macbeth expresses worrisome traits of both of these disorders. Schizophrenia and psychopathy are both extremely deteriorating to the mind and he very well could have suffered from not just one‚ but both of these illnesses. He has the tendencies to be a psychopath while also

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    Throughout the play "Macbeth"‚ two of the main characters‚ Macbeth and Lady Macbeth gradually exchange roles. Macbeth is the kind‚ caring one of the two in the beginning‚ but completely changes as the play goes on‚ as with Lady Macbeth. She starts out as an evil‚ vicious beast. She is an evil woman who is bond and determined to kill Duncan. At the end of the play this character feels guilt for what she has done and has taken the personality‚ which was that of her husband in the beginning.<br><br>At

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    January 16‚ 2013 The Tragedy of Macbeth- Mental Disorders of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth Imagine seeing objects or hearing voices that are no there‚ or reliving a traumatic experience over and over again. All of these things get in your way of thinking and you cannot go through the day without thinking normal. The notion of mental disorder is depicted in The Tragedy of Macbeth. The two characters‚ Macbeth and Lady Macbeth suffer serious mental disorders. Macbeth suffers from a dangerous mental disorder

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    When we first hear about Macbeth from the sergeant’s report‚ we are led to believe that he is very much a person who does only what he believes is right. Furthermore‚ when he first appears in the play‚ his fellow nobleman‚ Banquo‚ accompanies him. Given this‚ we would think that he does what is right‚ and makes all his own decisions. However this belief is proven wrong. Although Macbeth starts off as a loyal subject of Duncan‚ he is ambitious and this is a weakness‚ which allows him to be manipulated

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    Nocturnal Setting In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare the nocturnal setting of act II contributes the scenes overall mood or atmosphere. The overall all climax of scene is the assassination of Duncan king of Scotland. The overall mood and atmosphere the night of Duncan’s murder is very strange. Some events that happened was the dream that Banquo dreamed‚ also the things Fleance hears and what Lady Macbeth hears and finally the events that the old man tells Ross that happened that night the

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