...actual presence of the gracious King, does Macbeth speak more honestly and explicitly with himself. Stars, hide your fires, Let not light see my black...desires; The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Tragic Meanings: The Redactor as Critic Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (I.iv.50-53)...

...Prince of Cumberland! That's an obstacle that will trip me up unless I leap over it. It lies in my 50 For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires! Let...that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. Duncan True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant, 55 And in his commendations I am fed: It is a banquet...

...heroism of self-interest is marked by an aside spoken in the equivocal phrases of his first soliloquy: Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black...that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (1.4.50-53) Lady Macbeth, when she appears in the scene immediately following, defines her husband's...

...and it is this disintegration which bad faith wishes to be. 16 This is precisely Macbeth's project: Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black...that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (I.iv.50-53) He is asking for psychic disunity, for an "inner disintegration in the heart of being,"...

..."has moved appreciably nearer to it". I should have thought he clearly plans to do it: the words are: Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black...that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. The chief thought here, surely, as in all these habitual metaphors of darkness, is that Macbeth wants...

...wife with your approach; So humbly take my leave. King Duncan. My worthy Cawdor! Macbeth (To himself). Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black...be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (He leaves for Inverness) King Duncan. Let's after him, Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome....

...heart doth know? or it might be a rhyming couplet or two to emphasize a decision or a sense of purpose: 'Stars hide your fires, Let not light see my black...that be, Which the eye fears when it is done to see.' The witches speak mainly in couplets, but, to show that diey are not human, they use a different rhythm...

...Dunkelheit und der Nacht zugeordnet; der Mord verträgt nicht das Licht des Tages. Daher sagt Macbeth: Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black...be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (I.4.50ff.) Hier haben wir eine zweifache Stufe, die Überbietung des einen Bildes durch das andere:...

...night has arrived by the time Macbeth looks up and asks for the stars to be blotted out (1.4.50-53). Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black...that be Which the eye fears (when it is done) to see. Macbeth is calling for the kind of night witches exploit — when stars are "blinded" (Marston), the...

...(I.iv.11). Yet Macbeth also wants to mask his desire not just from others but from himself as well: Stars, hide your fires, Let not light see my black...that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (I.iv.5o) As he gets deeper in, the figure of Macbeth becomes ever more the focus of contradictions...