 | Ewald Standop - 1995 - 172 psl.
...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:... | |
 | Garry Wills - 1995 - 238 psl.
...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... | |
 | Antony Tatlow - 2001 - 320 psl.
...(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... | |
 | British Academy - 2000 - 590 psl.
...desire or superstition round the thing it marks or indicates. Consider these examples. (i) Macbeth: Let not light see my black and deep desires, The eye...that be. Which the eye fears when it is done to see. (l.4. 5l-3) (ii) Lady Macbeth: Thou'dst have. great Glamis, That which cries, Thus thou must do' if... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 psl.
...lights. But the evil that grips Macbeth must hide from such things of brilliance and universal beauty: Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black...be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (i. iv. 50) Throughout the evil in Macbeth is opposed to such order, to all family and national peace,... | |
 | Millicent Bell - 2002 - 316 psl.
...Separating consciousness from act, making invisible to himself even his own desires, Macbeth cries, Stars hide your fires, Let not light see my black...that be Which the eye fears when it is done to see. At the beginning, it is as though Shakespeare wants us to share, for as long as we can, Macbeth's own... | |
 | Stephen W. Smith, Travis Curtright - 2002 - 264 psl.
...to commit their crimes in darkness, so that they will not have to see what they are doing: Macbeth. 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. Come, thick night. And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen... | |
 | Terrence Real - 2002 - 314 psl.
...Macbeth usurper Macbeth prays for darkness; he knows he cannot bear to perform his crime while seeing it: "Stars, hide your fires! / Let not light see my black...be, / Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see." "Come, thick night," Lady Macbeth adds, "and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell / That my keen... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 316 psl.
...presents a world in which eye and hand, seeing and doing, are set in unnatural opposition to one another: Let not light see my black and deep desires; The eye...that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (I-4-5I-3) In Macbeth's vision of the dagger with its handle temptingly 'toward my hand', eye and 97... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Dinah Jurksaitis - 2003 - 156 psl.
...step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires, 50 Let not light see my black and deep desires; The eye...that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. DUNCAN True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant, raa [Exit And in his commendations I am fed: 55... | |
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For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires ! Let not light see my black and deep desires : The eye wink at the hand ! yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. 
