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Macbeth undergoes a huge change after murdering Duncan. He turns from a man frightened of murder and only pressured into it by his wife, to a man who is prepared to kill anybody who may get in his way of being King.
The quote below is taken from one of Macbeth's speeches before he commits the act of murder upon Duncan.

I see thee still! –
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. - There's no such thing!
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes.
(2:1:46-50, Speech no. 1)

Here Macbeth is talking of an imaginary blade which he sees in his hands. This hallucination shows that the subject of murder is hanging heavily on his mind. He at first sees the blade clean, with no blood on it, but in this quote he talks of the blade and its handle being covered in drops of blood. This is Macbeth's mind thinking of what is about to happen and what the consequences of his actions will bring. The vision tells of the horror and nature of......

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