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  • Blood Upon His Face Macbeth
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    Out Damned Spot! Shakespeare screams imagery! Shakespeare uses imagery of blood and sleep to create an atmosphere of horror, during the killing of Duncan, which contributes to our sense of Macbeth's growing insanity. Eventually Lady Macbeth's final scene is enhanced with the use of blood imagery which reflects her guilt. Shakespeare's use of imagery connects the feeling of horror from audience to play. Macbeth held such potential for himself. He was honoured Thane of Candor, and who knows what e...
  • Right After Macbeth Murders King Duncan
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    The play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, is regarded as one of Shakespeare's best tragedies. It deals with a man named Macbeth, who is introduced as a strong, brave war hero. He has the respect of the king and his peers. The predictions of three witches that Macbeth will become king begin Macbeths descent into his own downfall. He decides to take his fate into his own hands, The play Macbeth is full of images and motifs that recur many times throughout the play. The images of light and darkness...
  • Sleep Imagery In Lady Macbeth
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    "Murdered Sleep" In the tragedy Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare during the English Renaissance, the tragic hero, Macbeth, constantly declines his level of morality until his fatality at the end of the play. Throughout the play, Macbeth is influenced by Lady Macbeth in addition to his tragic flaw, his ambition, leads him to his downfall. The classical tragedy is comprised of five acts, which follow a customary pattern: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement. In ...
  • Macbeth's Hallucinations
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    What is This I See Before Me? Macbeth's visions seem to be a manifestation of his growing guilt and insatiable ambition. He is being driven to madness by his own actions. The first time we see this phenomena is just before Macbeth goes to kill Duncan; at this time he refers to a bloody dagger that seems to be floating in the air before him. This is a prelude to all that will come. Just after he commits his first murderous sin Macbeth claims to hear voices in the chambers crying out, "sleep no mo...
  • King Duncan Macbeth
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    The Troubles Macbeth Faced Immediately After the Murder In this world a person is suffering from stress put on his shoulder. Due to the amount of stress, naturally a person cannot sleep with a mind empty of worries. Sometimes a person gets disconnected from God. The disconnection from God along with the increasing amount of stress and of lack of sleep could lead a person to depression and losing hope in life. In Macbeth, the leading character, Macbeth suffers the same symptoms with an over stres...
  • Lady Macbeth
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    What Can You Really Believe: Illusion vs. Reality in Macbeth What is reality? Do you honestly believe that everyone shows his or her true selves openly? Think again! Many characters in Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, are two-faced. Two examples of these people are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. These characters all put on false faces to impress people or hide things from people. The witches also kept repeating a quote that has a lot of meaning. They continued to say "foul is fair and fair is foul". ...
  • Slave To His Insomnia And Lady Macbeth
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    It is natural to want to sleep after working hard. If something goes wrong or if the conscience feels guilt, the body will not let the person rest. The conscience keeps the person awake to think about his sins and keep torturing him until he confesses. In the play Macbeth, William Shakespeare uses images of sleep to show the guilt of Macbeth's and Lady Macbeth's conscious. When the idea of the first murder enters their heads, things begin to go wrong. They no longer have the natural healthy, nor...

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