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"Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires" |
Displays how quickly Macbeth jumps to murdering the king and is not influenced as much by Lady Macbeth as we are made to believe. |
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"I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none." |
Macbeth only dares to do what is honourable and good for a man to do and if he goes further than that he is not a man at all. Not supernatural, just dishonoured and not worthy to call himself a man. |
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"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?" |
The dagger is not real but imaginary, the product of Macbeth’s disturbed mind. In the view of Shakespeare’s audience, it would have been the work of demons.
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"Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature?" |
He knows that the news he is to be king cannot be good because it gives him ‘horrible imaginings’. He has a ‘horrid image’ in his head. What is it? It can clearly be suggested that his way to the crown has already been in his mind and he can think of only murder as the way to get there. This meeting with the witches has reinforced this idea and it frightens him.
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