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​ Loss of Morality and Sanity Quotes: 1. "What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to accompt? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? 2. "Wash you hands, put on your nightgown, look not so pale! I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried. He can not come out on's grave." (Act 5 Scene 3. "Thou art too lie the spirit of Banquo. Down! Thy criwn dies sear mine eyeballs. And thy hair, Thou other gold-brown brow, is like the first. A third is like the former." (Act 4 Scene 1) 4. "Thou wast born of a woman. But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn, Brandished by man that's of a woman born." (Act 5 Scene 7) 5. "Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood; stop up the access and passage to remorse, that no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose nor keep peace btween the effect and it! Come to my woman's breast and take my milk for gall. . ." (Act 1 Scene 5)

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Analysis:

Throughout the play Macbeth, the reader rognizes the degradation of morality and sanity in both the characters Lady Macbeth, and Macbeth. At the beginning of the play Macbeth seems to be an upright citizen who willingly serves King Duncan, but after meeting the three witches he begins to walk down a morally unsound path when he and Lady Macbeth plot to murder Duncan. The morality that these characters had quickly fell away, after the first murder Macbeth seems to show some signs of regret, but as the murders and evil continue, he loses this conscience, and insanity begins to increase. After murdering Banquo, Macbeth seems to come a step farther from sanity, and begins to see apparitiions of his victims. As Macbeth commits more examples of immorality, he becomes more and more insane, losing a sense of right and wrong, and believes even more that the end justifies the means. This is true of Lady Macbeth as well, as time continues insanity creeps upon her and eventually overwhelms her and she commits suicide. The immorality and insanity of Macbeth continues increasing until his death, it seems that as Macbeth becomes more pyschopathic and insane as time goes on, until he is finally killed at a point when he seems to have lost his grip on reality and become totally insane. The play shows that through Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, morality and sanity decrease to a point of immorality and insanity that leads Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to their deaths.