We have only to think of Lady Macbeth or the policeman-murderer in Thomas Burke's famous story, `` The Hands Of Mr. Ottermole '', to realize that hands often call up ideas of crime and punishment.

The bloodbath swiftly takes Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into realms of arrogance, madness, and death.

Over the course of many centuries, the play has attracted some of the most renowned actors to the roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

* Lady Macbeth – Macbeth's wife and later Queen of Scotland

Macbeth sends a message ahead to his wife, Lady Macbeth, telling her about the witches ' prophecies.

Lady Macbeth suffers none of her husband ’ s uncertainty, and wishes him to murder Duncan in order to obtain kingship.

He is so shaken that Lady Macbeth has to take charge.

At the banquet, Macbeth invites his lords and Lady Macbeth to a night of drinking and merriment.

The others panic at the sight of Macbeth raging at an empty chair, until a desperate Lady Macbeth tells them that her husband is merely afflicted with a familiar and harmless malady.

This time, Lady Macbeth tells the lords to leave, and they do so.

Meanwhile, Lady Macbeth becomes wracked with guilt from the crimes she and her husband have committed.

At night, in the king ’ s palace at Dunsinane, a doctor and a gentlewoman discuss Lady Macbeth ’ s strange habit of sleepwalking.

Suddenly, Lady Macbeth enters in a trance with a candle in her hand.

Lady Macbeth sleepwalking by Henry Fuseli

Before Macbeth ’ s opponents arrive, he receives news that Lady Macbeth has killed herself, causing him to sink into a deep and pessimistic despair and deliver his " Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow " soliloquy ( 5. 5. 17 – 28 ).

His last reference to Lady Macbeth, however, reveals "' tis thought, by self and violent hands / Took off her life " ( 5. 9. 71 – 72 ), leading most to assume that she committed suicide, but the method is undisclosed.

" Lastly, both plays contain powerful and manipulative female figures: Cleopatra and Lady Macbeth.

Macbeth and Banquo then together plot the murder of Duncan, at Lady Macbeth's urging.

Gandhi with Lord and Lady Mountbatten, 1947Given the British government's recommendations to grant independence quickly, Mountbatten concluded that a united India was an unachievable goal and resigned himself to a plan for partition, creating the independent nations of India and Pakistan.

Despite Lady Sayer's establishment background, she was a fearless and impassionedfighter in the defence of Dartmoor: frequently she deliberately interrupted army live-firing exercises on Dartmoor's military ranges, and in 1985 snubbed The Prince of Wales over the Duchy of Cornwall's management plan for Dartmoor, since this allowed for a continuance of military usage.

After an unsuccessful attempt to make peace with his wife, Lord Windermere summons the courage to tell the truth to her, but at that moment Mrs Erlynne arrives at the party, where she is greeted coldly by Lady Windermere, spoiling his plan.

1286-1296 ) and the elongated octagon plan of Wells Cathedral's Lady Chapel ( ca. 1320-1340 ) imitated much heavier stone vaulting.

Bellaston and Fellamar then hatch a plan for the latter to ravish Sophia the next evening whilst the servants are out of the house and whilst Lady Bellaston is in an apartment distant from the scene.

Anticipating the young king's imminent death from consumption and anxious to keep England true to the Reformation by keeping the Catholic Mary from the throne, John Dudley, Lord President of the Council and second only to the king in power, hatches a plan to marry his son, Lord Guilford, to Lady Jane Grey, and have the royal physician keep the young king Edward VI alive — albeit in excruciating pain — long enough to get him to name Jane his heir.

In its 13th century state-much of the basic layout of which survives today-the church was cruciform in plan, with an aisled bay of six naves, a crossing tower, transepts, a five bay chancel, and a retrochoir or “ Lady Chapel ”, the form of which has also been interpreted as group of four chapels with separate gabled roofs, two opening from the choir, and two from each aisle.

Empress Dowager He's mother Lady Xian and brother He Miao ( 何苗 ) also opposed the plan, reasoning that they owed much to the eunuchs.

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After he and the Collector tricked the teams into battling each other, the Grandmaster succeeded in his true plan: to capture Lady Death and usurp her powers.

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He was married to Lady Catherine Grey, sister of Lady Jane Grey, on 25 May 1553, in a political match arranged by their parents in the hopes of assisting the Duke of Northumberland with his plan to secure the succession of Lady Jane who also married along side her sister on that day, the Duke's younger son, Lord Guildford Dudley.

Their plan is to use a telepath to show the horror of Lady Styx.

When Lady and Cort are forced to face each other, they devise a plan to kill Herod and free Redemption from his oppression.

The two journey to the far north of Narnia, and the world below it, to recover the lost heir to the throne and to thwart the plan of the Lady of the Green Kirtle to overthrow the kingdom.

Lady Xian and He Miao also opposed the plan, reasoning that they owed much to the eunuchs.

The closest the Lady of Pain ever came to being overthrown was by Vecna, as one of the final steps in his plan to reshape the multiverse and make himself supreme.

Surprised by Lady Hester's change of heart, Elsa believes her and consents to an escape plan hatched by Mary, Luca and Wilfred.

Their two aims have been: to pray for Christian unity and to plan and achieve the re-establishment of the shrine of Our Lady of Grace at Ipswich.

Thomas Cheyne opposed the plan to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne, and although he acquiesced with Northumberland's policy, he pledged his support for Mary I as soon as he felt it safe so to do.

In September 1560 Sarlabous, the French Captain of Dunbar Castle, tried to spread a rumour that Elizabeth's council proposed an alternative marriage plan for Arran, with the English royal heiress Lady Catherine Grey, daughter of the Duchess of Suffolk.

She tells her servant Ninshubur ( Lady Evening ), a reference to Inanna's role as the evening star, that if she does not return in three days, to get help from her father Anu, Enlil, king of the gods, or Enki.

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* In Act II of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1884 comic opera Princess Ida, Lady Psyche suggests that students at a women's university who wish to study the classics should get their editions " Bowdlerised ".

Many years ago, Mrs. Grey, author of The Gambler's Wife and other novels, was on a visit at Ombersley Court, when Lady Sandys chanced to remark that she wished she could get some very good curry powder, which elicited from Mrs. Grey that she had in her desk an excellent recipe, which her uncle, Sir Charles, Chief Justice of India, had brought thence, and given her.

With Lady Ottoline Morrell, Leonard Woolf and Harry Norton he took part in Ezra Pound's scheme to ' get Eliot out of the bank ' ( Eliot had a job in the international department of Lloyd's, a London bank, and well-meaning friends wanted him full-time writing poetry ).

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" Bakshi responded, " You could pick a still out of Lady and the Tramp and get the same impression.

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After My Fair Lady, Holloway was able to get film roles in Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter ( 1968 ), which starred the 1960s British pop group Herman's Hermits, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Flight of the Doves and Up the Front, all in the early 1970s.

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Lady Bellaston is now determined to get Sophia out of the way.

When they move to the city Carrie tries to get Lady to go by Lala Desolles, insisting that " there's no such name as Lady ", but Lady refuses.

When Lady clashes with Aunt Sarah's two trouble-making Siamese cats, Si and Am, she takes Lady to a pet shop to get a muzzle.

It then shows Mr. Met and Lady Met driving home on the freeway ( with the Met children in the back ), with Lady Met subtitled as saying they were glad to get out early.

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Sir Walter Scott's story " My Aunt Margaret's Mirror " is believed to have been efforts by the Earl of Stair to get Lady Eleanor Primrose Campbell to marry him.

She doesn't get along well with Lady, and the two tend to stay away from one another unless necessary.

Lady joins the team more out of boredom then anything else, and doesn't get along well with Pyra.

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