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    I believe in the beginning of the play the characters had a sense of humanity and felt guilty for things they had done but throughout the play they dropped that sense and found that they felt no remorse for their dirty deeds. The banquet scene, Lady Macbeth knows how to draw attention away from Macbeth while he shows the guilt he is carrying by seeing the ghost of Banquo. She gets the guests to leave and has saved Macbeth from revealing himself to the crowd. She has protected him, and this shows

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    Discuss whether or not you feel sympathy for Lady Macbeth There are certain aspects of Lady Macbeth’s character that suggests she is good and therefore her downfall increases my sympathy for her by the end of act 5. But I would also argue that she entailed evil to fuel her sleeping ambition that would make her nemesis, her mental collapse, fully justified. Lady Macbeth’s role as a supporting wife at the start of the play exceeds the duties of a ‘normal’ wife. She is the ‘Eve’ to Macbeth’s ‘Adam’

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    sadness slowly seeping into her veins as she got closer and closer to her destination. “She stayed there you know” a gravelly voiced drifted from an open door. Sophie jolted around, her heart beating erratically fast. She came face to face with a lady, her wrinkles were predominant against her flaky skin, her burning eyes, like those of a pitiless judge,

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    which is not healthy for them. Due to this goal within Macbeth’s life, the causes are needless violence and suppression of feelings that are not “manly”. By suppressing these feelings, it leads his ability to be easily manipulated and Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s struggle with guilt. Although Macbeth has no trouble protecting himself physically from the outside world, emotionally, he is vulnerable and the witches, as well as his wife, take advantage of it. Because Macbeth is in a society that thrives

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    Lady Macbeth’s character begins in regicide and concludes in suicide. She is the mastermind of the play “Macbeth”, by Shakespeare. The murder of King Duncan is the first of many acts of evil that Lady Macbeth and her husband, Macbeth, complete throughout the play. Before this scene, Macbeth informs his wife that it is prophesied that he will be the next king. To achieve this future, Lady Macbeth creates a plan to kill King Duncan, the current King of Scotland. The act of murder is no easy deed, as

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    characters, Lady Macbeth and Lady Macduff, compares evil and good. Lady Macduff represents good. She is a God-fearing, woman loyal to her husband and believing in his sound judgement, even though she sometimes doubts him. Lady Macbeth is a representation of evil. Lady Macbeth is ruthless and unstoppable in her drive for the throne. However, it should be said that throughout the play Shakespeare's presentations of Lady Macbeth’s of three different personalities. At the very beginning of the play Lady Macbeth

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    guilt Blood is one of the sign effect make many people faint, Shakespeare has described briefly the image of blood in Macbeth. In the beginning of the story, blood is one of the illustration and guilty cause led Mac Beth and Lady Mac Beth to their madness and many deaths after killed King Duncan. In the opening of act 1 scene 2 ,the blood appear to be death everywhere in macbeth. When King Duncan ask “ what bloody man is that?” about the sergeant, he tells

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    known as Venus. This planet consists of many floating islands. The islands are quite beautiful, the clouds are purple and the sky is a golden color, the seawater is green and drinkable, from the distance the water looks like glided glass. The islands are not very stable, and they can shake if water hits the mobile islands. All of the islands are mobile, except the main island, which remains stationary. Maledil, the people's god, forbade them to spend the night on the main island; therefore the inhabitants

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    course of the play, many terrible deaths occur primarily caused by the ruthlessness of Macbeth’s wife, Lady Macbeth, and their burning desire to become king and queen of Scotland. Lady Macbeth begins as one of the most powerful and least humane female characters in English literature. However, she experiences a major change in moral character throughout the play. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Lady Macbeth’s moral character changes from ruthless, pitiless, vicious, wicked, villainous and murderous at

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    occur in Macbeth when he decides he doesn't want to murder his best friend King Duncan, “We will proceed no further in this business” (1.7.33) because Macbeth was honored by him and he got the golden respect from everyone. He then announces to his wife Lady Macbeth, that he does not want to continue with their plan and she calls him a coward because of

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