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“Armed rhinoceros”

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(Hyperbole)
When facing Banquo’s ghost, Macbeth exclaims that he’d rather face an armed rhinoceros (viscous animals) as the ghost reminds him of all his guilt

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“Wake Duncan with the knocking, I would thou coulds’t”

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Macbeth feels guilty after murdering a morally good king, and disrupting the divine right of kings, he suggests that he would wake Duncan up if he could, and he’s reflecting on his bad deeds

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“Sleep no more”

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After Macbeth murdered the king, he immediately feels guilty.
James I had recently been targeted in the gun powder plot, and this is a message that if you murder the king, you won’t get away with it and there will be immediate consequences

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