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Desire and Reason in Macbeth     In the depend Macbeth the give-and-take desire occurs 7 ages and the word reason occurs 5 cadences. These words have an important correlation and are a master(prenominal) theme in the play. Although the meaning of these words does not vary ofttimes at all in this play, their impact on the play is in the words surrounding them, and their place in the development of the plot. The first time desire shows up in the play is when Lady Macbeth is m bug outh in her first soliloquy and says, I burned in desire to unbelief them further. In which she was referring to the prophecy of which was revealed to her, and triggers the plot against Duncan, and her reason for her early thirst to power. The second time she mentions desire she says, Where our Desire is got without content. With the surrounding textual matter she is saying that if your desires are obtained without happiness then all is lost. In cardinal of the times Lady Macbet h uses desire it is in referral to Macbeth being king. The other time she uses it is persuading him to kill Duncan, when she questions his desire and strength to obtain them.   Macduff uses desire much little passionately than Lady Macbeth mostly he uses it to describe and emotion of deficient something, it is very much completely is context without literary impact of the word itself. The most significant time he uses it is before Duncan was discovered to be dead he says, it provokes the desire, but takes away the performance. He was speaking about alcohol and provoking the desire for sex but winning away the ability to have it. This is not different from Macbeth envisioning the toughie that seems just out of reach. Later too he nearly backs out of the plot against Duncan, which is when Lady Macbeth says that she would bash her childs brains in if she had said she would confronting Macbeth about his peaceful approach to desire.   In the same speech in which she is convincing Macbeth to trace through with the murder reason is used in an extremely smart part of the play.