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The witches and Hecate could be the symbols. Compared to the God that gives Edward prophecies, the witches and Hecate are evil figures.

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3) Prophecy is linked with power and ambition. The prophecy is the power that the both kings share. The ambition and the goodness of the kings dictate their actions based on that prophecy. Macbeth acts upon ambition, and Edward acts upon religion.

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1) Prophecies are frequently mentioned throughout the book. The prophecies were given by the witches and was the main cause for Macbeth's actions. It motivates him to kill Duncan and to have confidence on his reign and power to win over kings.

Act 1, Scene 3, Line 51
"All hail, Macbeth, the future king!"

Act 2, Scene 1, Line 20
"Everything’s OK. I had a dream last night about the three witches. At least part of what they said about you was true."

Act 3, Scene 1, Line 60
"Banquo chided the witches when they first called me king, asking them to tell him his own future. Then, like prophets, they named him the father to a line of kings. They gave me a crown and a scepter that I can’t pass on. Someone outside my family will take these things away from me, since no son of mine will take my place as king."

Act 4, Scene 1, Line 99
"That will never happen. Who can command the forest and make the trees pull their roots out of the earth? These were sweet omens! Good! My murders will never come back to threaten me until the forest of Birnam gets up and moves, and I will be king for my entire natural life."

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2) Prophecy is the power that Macbeth has. However, Edward the confessor is also known to have this ability. Macbeth used the prophecy and committed sins to achieve those prophecies. He is overconfident about his throne. It is the driving force and also the representation of the supernatural force. How the people utilize that power changes whether they are the confessor or tyrant Macbeth.

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Spells and Illusion appear in the story such as Macbeth seeing a blooded dagger and the witches using their wizardry, ghost which describes the conflicts between Macbeth himself or good and evil. Also it makes the literature  more fascinating and affluent for the readers to read.

[Act 1]
' Is this a dagger I see in front of me, with its handle pointing toward my hand? Come, let me hold you'

'(calling to her cat) I'm coming, Graymalkin!

'I already have control of all the other winds, along with the ports from which they blow and every direction on the sailor's compass in which they can go.-Although  I can't make his ship disappear, I can still make his journey miserable. Look what I have here'
[Act 2]
It makes you dream about erotic experiences, but then it leaves you asleep and needing to see.
[Act 3]
'The table's full'. 'Here's an empty seat, sir'
'(to the ghost) You can't say I did it. Don't shake your bloody head at me'
[Act 4]
'(holding something up) We'll boil you in the cauldron next-a slice of swamp snake.
[Act 5]
'I still have the smell of blood on my hand. All the perfumes of Arabia couldn't make my little hand smell better'

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Birds in general represent diverse elements in compliance with the atmosphere and context of the novel. Birds are being utilized to further elaborate the general tone and individual emotions of characters.

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"I still have the smell of blood on my hand. All the
perfumes of Arabia couldn’t make my little hand
smell better. Oh, oh, oh!"

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"That was the owl that shrieked, with a scary 'good night' like the bells they ring before they execute people. Macbeth must be killing the king right now" (Shakespeare 2.2.6)
- Owl represents the vicious and criminalistic behavior in general of the novel. Referring to owl's tendency to behave at night behind people's sight, Macbeth's act of murderer is being represented by the howl of the owl.

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"Will all
the water in the ocean wash this blood from my hands."

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"If Duncan bleeds I’ll paint the servants'
faces with his blood. We must make it seem like
they’re guilty."

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"The fact that this summer bird, the house martin, builds his nests here proves how inviting the breezes are. There isn't a single protrusion in the castle walls where these birds haven't built their hanging nests to sleep and breed. I've noticed that they always like to settle and mate where the air is the nicest" (Shakespeare 1.6.10)
- Bird in this context as a motif represents the warming and welcoming environment of the castle for the guests. Birds are being used to further elaborate the genial atmosphere yet also serves as a foreshadowing for vicious crime later which can be inferred from the nest in process of building.

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"I can still see you, and I see blood splotches
on your blade and handle that weren’t there
before."

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"shall be what thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature: it is too full o’the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it" (Shakespeare 1.5.3).

"Don’t think about it so much" (Shakespeare 2.2.30).

"He’s my enemy too, and I hate him so much that every minute he’s alive it eats away at my heart. Since I’m king, I could simply use my power to get rid of him. But I can’t do that, because he and I have friends in common whom I need, so I have to be able to moan and cry over his death in public even though I’ll be the one who had him killed" (Shakespeare 3.1.119).

"I don’t know how you know the things you do, but
I insist that you answer my questions. I command
you in the name of whatever dark powers you serve" (Shakespeare 4.1.50).

Through out the novel, power has been portrayed in different shapes depending on the character with it. When King Duncan had power, there wasn't any problem with the people around him or his relationship. However, ever since Macbeth took over the power, it started to get used as a tool in several murder cases. Power is often overused by Macbeth, and it becomes harmful for the people around him. This could be linked with the theme of ambition and justice because power can directly link to how the ambition inside a character can get distant from justice because of the power a character has. For a symbol, it could be a crown, a person becoming a king with absolute power over people.

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1. Act 1-4-3: “To become king myself, I’m either going to have to step over him or give up, because he’s in my way. Stars, hide your light so no one can see the terrible desires within me.”
Act 2-2-4: “They’re plucking out my eyes. Will all the water in the ocean wash this blood from my hands? No, instead my hands will stain the seas scarlet, turning the green waters red.”
Act 3-4-5: “If the dead are going to return from their graves, then there’s nothing to stop the birds from eating the bodies.”
Act 4-1-6 “You look too much like the ghost of Banquo. Go away!… Now I see it is true, they are Banquo’s descendants.”

2. Guilt comes out frequently in the play. Although Macbeth and Lady Macbeth was ambitious and they committed murder, they still felt guilty and Macbeth started seeing ghosts of Banquo. It shows that the consequences of his action can’t be washed away.

3. The themes related to ‘guilt’ is corruption of ambition. When ambition goes unchecked, destruction happens. The problem is that once violence starts its hard to stop.

4. Ghosts, blood

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Act 2, Scene 1, Page 2
"Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch
thee."

Act 3, Scene 4, Page 3
"MACBETH. (to GHOST) Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake Thy gory locks at me."

Act 4, Scene 1, Page 4~5
Thunder. The FIRST APPARITION appears, looking like a head with an armored helmet.
... Thunder. The SECOND APPARITION appears, looking like a bloody child.
... Thunder. The THIRD APPARITION appears, in the form of a child with a crown on his head and a tree in his hand.
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The hallucinations represent the guilt of Macbeth, killing the people who are threats to him. In Act 2, he is nervous about killing Duncan, seeing a hallucination of a dagger as he heads to Duncan's room. Also, the apparition would indicate warnings for Macbeth as a king. Ambition can be connected to the motif. Due to the immoral ambition that Macbeth has, he feels guilt, leading to hallucinations. The symbols that support the motif are dagger and the ghost of Banquo.

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1) Cite where these motifs appear in each Act of the play:

When they lie asleep like pigs, so drunk they’ll be dead to the world, what won’t you and I be able to do to the unguarded Duncan? (Act 1, Scene 7, Page 3, Line 64).

Macbeth is murdering sleep. Innocent sleep. Sleep that soothes away all our worries. Sleep that puts each day to rest. Sleep that relieves the weary laborer and heals hurt minds. Sleep, the main course in life’s feast, and the most nourishing. (Act 2, Scene 2, Page 3, Line 35)

The gentle creatures of the day are falling asleep, while night’s predators are waking up to look for their prey. (Act 3, Scene 2, Page 3, Line 54)

I’ll guarantee my own fate by having you
killed, Macduff. That way I can conquer my own fear and sleep easy at night. (Act 4, Scene 1, Page 5, Line 89)

2) Analyze the motif - what is the hidden meaning of this motif in the play?

Sleep is depicted as a state when one is most vunerable at. This is why Macbeth and Lady Macbeth planned to assassinate Duncan when he was asleep after all the guards were asleep being drunk. Sleep is seen as one's greatest weakest because it "relieve the weary laborer" and the "main course of life's feast". Sleep is said as an innocent thing as it soothes away people's worries, and Macbeth is described as "murdering sleep" as Macbeth is exploiting one's sleep to kill.

3) Related themes of these motifs?

There can be related themes like jealosy and inner desire for power as Macbeth exploited the innocence of sleep to fill his own stomach with greed and desire. Sleep can also be related with innocence and weakness as sleeping state is one's most weakest state, but innocent since everyone needs to sleep.

4) Related symbols that support these motifs?

Alcohol can be one symbol that support this motif. Alcohol forcefully drived the guards to be asleep. Alcohol makes people their weakest state, which is being asleep. Lady Macbeth used this fact to disable the guards from protecting Duncan.

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Blood consistently come out throughout the novel. There are few significant scene where blood was present, and first thing is the blood on the dagger. Just before he murders Duncan, Macbeth sees a vision of a dagger floating in front of him in the castle. And he soon realized that the dagger is not real and the blood on the dagger represented a manifestation of his guilt for murdering Duncan. And also, blood on Lady Macbeth's hands shows her guilt her muder, that it will be difficult to go back to being good.

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Act 1 - scene 1, Thunder : The witches gather and chant. In the background, thunder and lightning strikes
Act 3 - scene 5, Thunder : The witches gather once more, but this time the goddess of sorcery, Hecate, is also there. They plan for more evil doings.
Act 4 - scene 1, Thunder : The witches brew a potion

2. The recurrence of the word 'thunder' allows the readers to imply the dark and gloomy atmosphere of the play. This motif allows the author to better describe the tragedy of the play

3.
The motif, weather, is connected to the theme of the play, 'tragedy is derived from corruption and greed', because the motif directly describes the corruption of Macbeth.

4.
Lightning and thunder symbolizes the witches and the corruption of Macbeth. It appears when ever the witches plot a malicious act or when Macbeth is about to commit an immoral action.

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1. Cite where these motifs appear in each Act of the play

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1. Cite where these motifs appear in each Act of the play

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Act 1: At the battle from act 1, Macbeth chopped Macdonwald's head off
Act 2: Macbeth Kills Duncan, and makes as if his servants are guilty for the murder
Act 3: Macbeth uses his servants to kill Banquo and his son. Although Banquo was killed his son escaped
Act 4: The murderer of Macbeth kills Macduff's son. Although his wife escapes.

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Gender Roles are recurring theme in Macbeth, that drives  Macbeth into commiting atrocities against King Duncan, and also catalyzes his downfall.

In Act 1, Lady Macbeth states:
"unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood".

Lady Macbeth claims that "unsex[ing]" her and making herself further masculine will cause her to become cruel, insinuating that men are cruel in nature.

In Act 2, Macduff states:
"The repetition, in a woman’s ear, would murder as it fell".

Macduff underestimates Lady Macbeth, percieving her as a feminine figure that cannot comprehend Duncan's deatj, whereas in truth she assisited Macbeth in murdering Duncan.

In Act 3, Lady Macbeth states:
"(aside to MACBETH) Are you a man?".

Lady Macbeth threathens Macbeth to stay calm after he sees Banquo's ghost by enforcing gender roles: "Are you a man" indicates that men should not be suprised.

In Act 4, Lady Macduff states:
Why then, alas, do I put up that womanly defense,
to say I have done no harm?

here Macduff confronts the bias that women should be defensive.

In Act 5,  Macbeth states:
"We might have met them dareful, beard to beard,
And beat them backward home".

"Beard to Beard" implies that men often directly confront each other.

Some related themes and symbols are: Masculinity, Feminity, witches, the supernatural, bravery etc.

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2. Analyze the motif - what is the hidden meaning of this motif in the play? 

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2. Analyze the motif - what is the hidden meaning of this motif in the play? 

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Macbeth is a famously violent play. Interestingly, most of the killings take place offstage, but throughout the play, the characters provide the audience with gory descriptions of the carnage, from the opening scene where the captain describes Macbeth and Banquo wading in blood on the battlefield, to the endless references to the bloodstained hands of Macbeth and his wife. The action is bookended by a pair of bloody battles: in the first, Macbeth defeats the invaders; in the second, he is slain and beheaded by Macduff. In between is a series of murders: Duncan, Duncan’s chamberlains, Banquo, Lady Macduff, and Macduff’s son all come to bloody ends. By the end of the action, blood seems to be everywhere.

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light and dark is use to distinct good and evil. This is shown through series of quote. In the quotes character uses/a lines  dark with evil. Especially, Macbeth describe the crime he will commit with darkness which is evil. Besides, light is used to explain good and pure. Macbeth uses light when he explains that he should hide from the light which is good and heavenly.

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Theme Guilt and Ambition is related to the motif : blood.

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1. Act 1, Scene 4, Line 53 "Stars, hide your light so no one can see the terrible desires within me...I'd be horrified to see."

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1. Act 1, Scene 4, Line 53 "Stars, hide your light so no one can see the terrible desires within me...I'd be horrified to see."

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Act 1, Scene 4, Line 53 "Stars, hide your light so no one can see the terrible desires within me...I'd be horrified to see."

Act2, Scene 4, Line 7 "The clock says it's daytime, but dark night is stragling the sun. Is it because night is so strong, or because day is so weak, that darkness covers the earth when it's supposed to be light?"

Act 3, Scene 2, Line 50 "Light thickens, and the crow / Makes wing to th' rooky wood"

Act 4, Scene 1, Line 47 "What's going on here, you secret, evil, midnight hags? What are you doing?"

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Macbeth’s guilt about murdering his king, Duncan, and ordering the murder of his friend, Banquo, causes him to have guilty hallucinations. This theme is caused by violence to achieve Macbeth's ambition.

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ambitious

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4. Related symbols that support these motifs?

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4. Related symbols that support these motifs?

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guilt and corruption

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Dagger and act of murdering is related symbols that support motif : blood.

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4. Related symbols that support these motifs?

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4. Related symbols that support these motifs?

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Dagger is the theme used to support this motif. Macbeth uses dagger to kill Duncan and others.