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        <title><![CDATA[This question has already been asked and answered:...]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are some quotes from Macbeth that show examples of disease imagery?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are some quotes from Macbeth that show examples of disease imagery?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 13:51:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are literally tortured to death by the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/macbeth/q-and-a/how-do-macbeths-mental-stability-affect-their-112703</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are literally tortured to death by the events surrounding and including the murder of King Duncan. Lady Macbeth's line ' A little water clears us of this deed' becomes creully ironic as part of her night time rituals signalling her descent into madness. She ulitimately takes her own life - unable to assuage the guilt associated with the murder of the King.
Macbeth was driven to the crime of regicide by his wife...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 23:02:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Well, here's your belated answer. I hope you're still interested. Maybe...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Well, here's your belated answer. I hope you're still interested. Maybe it wasn't for a school assignment, and you just wanted to know... :-)
So, it's late at night. The big dinner that the Macbeths have thrown for King Duncan is over, and everyone is finally going to bed. The murder will soon take place, and Macbeth is checking to see if anyone is still awake. Banquo and his son Fleance, as the scene opens, are just about to retire:

BANQUO:...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:35:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Well from what we hear of Macbeth in Act IV Sc.3 he certainly could be...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Well from what we hear of Macbeth in Act IV Sc.3 he certainly could be described as "a bloody butcher."

In Act IV Sc. 3 Malcolm and Macduff  have arrived in England and they are about to have an audience with the King of England. They are seen in conversation just outside the King of England's palace. Both of them discuss the ever increasing tyranny and cruelty of Macbeth as he brutally destroys both Scotland and its people. Macduff...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:56:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[To say that Macbeth is a bloody butcher is to endorse Malcolm's final...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[To say that Macbeth is a bloody butcher is to endorse Malcolm's final view of Macbeth and his wife-'the dead butcher and his fiend-like queen'. Macbeth killed Duncan; murderers appointed by him killed Banquo, and the family of Macduff. Even then, we should not reduce him to a one-dimensional character--just a criminal/villain; we have gone through his soliloquies and asides from act 1 sc.3 till the very end of the play. We must have noted his...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 23:32:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is macbeth a bloody butcher?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is macbeth a bloody butcher?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 21:29:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Though Macbeth does not appear in Act IV, scene iii, we glimpse his...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Though Macbeth does not appear in Act IV, scene iii, we glimpse his effect upon his kingdom, and the future of Scotland is foreshadowed.
Act IV, scene iii may be the first time we see an honest conversation in the entire play.  I say "may be" because it is unclear whether or not Malcolm is really testing Macduff's loyalty.  Maybe he's testing his disloyalty.  Some critics (Snyder) think Malcolm will be an even worse tyrant than Macbeth.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:22:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Act IV, Scene iii Malcolm and Macduff have arrived in England and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Act IV, Scene iii Malcolm and Macduff have arrived in England and they are about to have an audience with the King of England. They are seen in conversation just outside the King of England's palace. Both of them discuss the ever increasing tyranny and cruelty of Macbeth as he brutally destroys both Scotland and its people. Macduff  remarks sorrowfully:

each new mornNew widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrowsStrike heaven on the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 06:31:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What do we learn of Macbeth's character from Act 4, Scene 3 of Macbeth?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What do we learn of Macbeth's character from Act 4, Scene 3 of Macbeth?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 06:29:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The play is largely about Macbeth's ambition and his ambition does not...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/macbeth/q-and-a/how-does-macbeth-feel-asd-he-sees-vision-eight-113157</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The play is largely about Macbeth's ambition and his ambition does not end with himself; he wants to see his descendants become king.  Forget the fact that he has no children.  When he sees the vision of the kings, the last one looking into a mirror and all of them resembling Banquo, Macbeth is angry. (This part of the scene from Act 4, sc. 1, was meant to flatter King James I of England, who had been King James VI of Scotland.)  Macbeth is...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 04:13:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Macbeth feel as he sees the vision of eight kings in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does Macbeth feel as he sees the vision of eight kings in Shakespeare's Macbeth?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 03:05:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Here are a few more choice witchy morsels for you:
 

Stars, hide your...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Here are a few more choice witchy morsels for you:
 

Stars, hide your fires;
Let not light see my black and deep desires:
The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be
Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
 
Ere the bat hath flown
His cloister'd flight; ere to black Hecate's summons
The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums
Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done
A deed of dreadful note.
 
O, full of scorpions is my mind,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 23:31:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[We first hear of Macbeth as a murdering hero.  The Bleeding Captain...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[We first hear of Macbeth as a murdering hero.  The Bleeding Captain says he unseems the traitor Macdonwald from his belly button to his throat, but since it is on the battlefield, it is not technically murder.
Later, Macbeth will murder the king.  Regicide is the most heinous crime a Thane can commit.  As the King was thought to have answered to no one but God, regicide is the equivalent of murdering God.
After Macbeth murders Duncan,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 23:24:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Macbeth echoes the Witches in each of their first lines of the play: in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Macbeth echoes the Witches in each of their first lines of the play: in Act I.i, the Witches end their first scene with the equivocation:
Fair is foul, and foul is fair:Hover through the fog and filthy air.
In Act I.iii, Macbeth's first lines are:

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

The day has been foul, in that he has been in bloody battle, unseeming traitors from the nave to chops;it has been a fair day, in that Scotland has won the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 23:09:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are some instances where Macbeth sounds like a witch? ]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are some instances where Macbeth sounds like a witch? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:01:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Macbeth is responsible for his own death. He could of ignored the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Macbeth is responsible for his own death. He could of ignored the witched predictions but chose not to. He let Lady Macbeth quetion his manhood while he was king and while he had the power to shut her up. He got cocky and blood thirsty and his only concern was keeping the power he gained at all cost because of their predictions. The witches played a major role in his death but technically they are not responsible.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 17:16:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Describe Macbeth as the murderer.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Describe Macbeth as the murderer.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 17:09:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Malcolm can certainly be seen as wary and cautious, but that does not...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Malcolm can certainly be seen as wary and cautious, but that does not mean that he is weak. After his father, King Duncan, is murdered by Macbeth, there is this exchange between Malcolm and his brother, Donaldbain:

MALCOLM:
[Aside to Donalbain.] Why do we hold our
tongues,
That most may claim this argument for ours?
DONALBAIN:
[Aside to Malcolm.] What should be spoken here,
where our fate,
Hid in an auger-hole, may rush and seize us?
Let's...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:56:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why does Malcolm appear weak?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why does Malcolm appear weak?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:37:03 PST</pubDate>
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