desires." (I.iv.48-51). The end of that quotation is important to the audience because it is the first real sign of Macbeth's evil thoughts.
             When Macbeth comes back to his castle to get the feast ready for the king, he starts to doubt his thoughts about killing him. He wrestles with his conscience and thinks aloud to the reasons for not killing him, " He's here in double trust:/ First I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host/ Who should against his murderer shut the door,/ Not bear the knife myself."(I.vii.12-16). He is thinking that Duncan has trusted him first as Thane of Cawdor and second as host. He also contemplates Heaven and Hell, and that if he killed Duncan then there would be a tremendous outcry from Heaven. This is because of the Divine right of succession and he knows that if he kills Duncan then this will be disrupted. In the days of Shakespeare the divine right of succession was considered holy and that if anyone disrupts it, it is an act against God.
             At the beginning of the next act Macbeth sees the image of the Dagger in his important soliloquy. He starts to wonder whether it is inviting him to kill Duncan and yet he knows that he can't touch it. He starts to think it is only something created from his "...heat-oppressed brain."(II.i.39). He is wondering whether it is telling him the way to go or that his eyes are fooling him. This killing would go against Macbeth's nature and the whole of natural law. We come back to this idea after the killing has taken place. After Macbeth has killed Duncan he is very agitated and worried and he has forgotten to place the daggers with the Grooms. It is his wife who is down to earth and practical trying to stop Macbeth thinking guilty thoughts, " you do unbend your noble strength to think I so brain-sickly of things."(II.ii.43-44) When she returns she sees that both their hands are of a bloody colour and that is when she says, "A little wa...