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macbeths extreme ambition (horse)
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i have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition which overleaps itself
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macbeth hiding his nobleness / deceit / crossing the king / treachery (stars)
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stars hide your fires let not light see my black and deep desires
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imperative, shows power,
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tell me thou unknown power
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macbeth saying that he will do the first thing that pops into his head - ambition, power (firstlings)
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the very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand
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macbeths determination to win the fight with macduff (bones)
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ill fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked
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lady macbeth imperative, demanding supernatural help
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come you spirits unsex me here
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lady macbeth telling macbeth to be something hes not - deception juxtoposition
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look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under
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lady macbeths confidence - hyping up macbeth
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screw your courage to the sticking place and we will not fail
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lady macbeth is concerned that macbeth is too kind
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yet i do fear thy nature it is too full of milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way
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lady macbeth emphasising their service they have done for the king
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all our service in every point twice done and done the double
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macbeths guilt (neptune)
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will all neptunes ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? no
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macbeths guilt keeping him up at night
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macbeth shall sleep no more
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macbeths guilt (amen)
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i could not say amen
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macbeths guilt, metaphor,lack of sleep unnatural (innocent)
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macbeth does murder sleep innocent sleep
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macbeth so guilty that he cannot name what he has done
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i have done the deed
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lady macbeth trying to reassure macbeth that you can just wipe off the guilt (little water)
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a little water clears us of this deed
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lady macbeth guilt hallucinating blood exclamatives
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out dammed spot! out i say!
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lady macbeth saying the guilt will never go
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will these hands ever be clean?
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lady macbeth saying she cant cover the guilt (perfumes arabia)
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the smell of blood still all the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this little hand
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lady macbeth saying she can change her actions as theyre in the past
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whats done cannot be undone
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doctor saying bad actions lead to bad consequences
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unnatural deeds do bread unnatural troubles
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witches famous line - employs a paradox - foreshadows the deception of macbeth / witches symbolic of ---- but five ---- advice
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fair is foul and foul is fair
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witches implying there are 2 sides to every story
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when the battles lost and won
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banquo telling macbeths that people are often tricked by being given small truths
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often times to win us to our harm the instruments of darkness tell us truths ... to betray
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lady macbeth personification of knife implies self deception - knife is a symbol of herself
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that my keen knife see not the wound it makes
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semantic field of darkness implies reliance on what we can see - it makes us gullible
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come thick night
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duncan to macbeth situational irony describing him as noble
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o valiant cousin worthy gentleman
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macbeth being demanding - imperitives - spoken at witches
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stay you imperfect speakers tell me more
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macbeth hallucinating- draw to witches
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is this a dagger i see before me?
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lady macbeth wanting to have supernatural powers - imperative
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come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts
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lady macbeth asking to be less lady like
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unsex me here
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