Flickers of candles brighten the room with a warm tan on the walls and giving light to the shadows of a room belonged to a woman of madness and insanity. Pacing back and forth, back and forth is Lady Macbeth, tearing at the skin on her fragile hands. Lady Macbeth complains,
“Why won’t they vanish? I can see the blood that once flowed through the king’s veins stains seep into the creases of my cruel hands, no such soap could away my murderous guilt.” Sipping her water from her glass, she thinks about how foolish she could be. Murdering someone who beloved his men, someone so opposite of evil. When she closes her eyes, she sees the warm royal blood dripping from the cold blade of the dagger that perished the king.
Sounds of susurration whisper,
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My foolishness has paralysed my brain making me believe you’re there. King Duncan walks around Lady Macbeth like a vaulter waiting to kill, his intimidating walk makes Lady Macbeth crumble like a ___.
“I’m as real as you forcing your dearest companion to murder me just for you to wear a little crown and become queen to have power and position. A murderer rules my beloved Scotland.” He exclaims staring down Lady Macbeth like a vaulter while she hides her face with her glass to disappear him from her sight. “Do you fear me now? I thought you were a fearless spirit, one that does not shutter at murder.” As Lady Macbeth ponders around her empty room, she looks up and glares at King Duncan with a look that pierces through Lady Macbeth’s murky soul. She yells,
“Nonsense! I didn’t do anything! Stop pestering me and vanish. Yes, I am queen but I will not be accused of something so foolish and barbaric. Now leave!” Her sharp scream of words makes King Duncan vanish into the thin air. Sigh of bitter release leaves her body of the thought of him being gone and her being alone. Noticing the stains still lingering on her skin, she continues to rub her hand violently but her hand slips and drops her glass. When it smashes on the floor it’s sheds, resembling her mind being all over the place, she notices something odd about her
Lady Macbeth adopts a different strategy to use her female influence to convince her husband Macbeth to kill for the coveted throne, but each conversation takes her closer to her untimely deat...
Even though, Lady Macbeth did not kill Duncan, she knew it was because of her provocation that Macbeth was forced to take this step. In the beginning of the play, she is blood thirsty and cruel. In the middle, when she had to hide Macbeth’s hallucination of seeing Banqous ghost, she said “Good friends, think of this as nothing more than a strange habit. It's nothing else. Too bad it's spoiling our pleasure tonight” (III, iv, 101-103).
First came the pride, an overwhelming sense of achievement, an accomplishment due to great ambition, but slowly and enduringly surged a world of guilt and confusion, the conscience which I once thought diminished, began to grow, soon defeating the title and its rewards. Slowly the unforgotten memories from that merciless night overcame me and I succumbed to the incessant and horrific images, the bloody dagger, a lifeless corpse. I wash, I scrub, I tear at the flesh on my hands, trying desperately to cleanse myself of the blood. But the filthy witness remains, stained, never to be removed.
Shakespeare’s social commentating is conveyed through the theme of power. This theme is clearly demonstrated through the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. For example, Lady Macbeth’s lust for power can be seen after she reads Macbeth’s letter and says, “Unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty; make thick my blood, stop up the access and passage to remorse.” In this quote she is asking to be stripped of her womanhood so that she can perform the deed herself. This quote not only reflects Lady Macbeth’s ambition and her desire to step out of her role to attain power, but also effectively links back to gender in the Jacobean era where woman were restricted to the role of a housewife. In addition, Macbeth’s
Lady Macbeth is getting very confused that Macbeth is refusing to kill King Duncan and she cannot commit the crime her self because evidently King Duncan resembles too much like her father. She fells that Macbeth is not a man and she ridicules and tries to persuade him to kill King Duncan by saying that he is not a man and that the only way to become a man is to kill the king (regicide).
Macbeth is a major, static character who pursues power, suffers emotionally from his violent transgressions, and serves as his wife’s puppet to incite violence. Under the predictions of the witches and influence of his wife, Macbeth kills or arranges the death of several characters. These actions eventually come back to torture and torment his mind as he wards off the enemies and scoffs at attackers due to the prophesy that “none of woman born- Shall harm Macbeth” (4.1. 80-81).
Lady Macbeth has finally reached the end of her sanity, she starts to do some really odd things during the night.
The play Macbeth contains many hallucinations. The hallucinations in the play were trying to make the characters realize the things they were doing was wrong. It is making them conscious of their miss doings. I believe this story is to teach people that they should do the right things at all time because if not there conscious will hunt them down. Throughout the play Macbeth there is a couple of characters hallucinating about so many scenes going on in this play. Here are the things they hallucinate about in this play. Macbeth sees a dagger, Macbeth imagines a voice that warns him “Macbeth shall sleep no more,” (2.2.35-36) and he imagines that the sleepers could see him listening to their exclamation of fear, Macbeth sees the ghost of Banquo, the three apparitions from the witches, and Lady Macbeth sees blood on her hands. I am going to talk about the many of hallucinations that were in the play.
). Macbeth is not who he seems to be, he hides his true desires; there is a fire within him that grows rapidly. Duncan’s body symbolizes the state of the country, unnatural and ‘each new day a gash added to her wounds’. Macbeth continues to be angered that “ For Banquo’s issue have I filed my mind;/ For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered;/ Put rancors in the vessel of my peace” \(
prospect of you being king was so great that I lost touch with reason. When the
The greatness of Lady Macbeth lies almost wholly in courage and force of will. It is an error to regard her as remarkable on the intellectual side. In acting a part she shows immense self-control, but not much skill. Whatever may be thought of the plan of attributing the murder of Duncan to the chamberlains, to lay their bloody daggers on their pillows, as if they were determined to advertise their guilt, was a mistake which can be accounted for only by the excitement of the moment. But the limitations appear most in the point where she is most strongly contrasted with Macbeth - in her comparative dullness of imagination. (340)
Laurence Sterne once wrote, “No body, but he who has felt it, can conceive what a plaguing thing it is to have a man’s mind torn asunder by two projects of equal strength, both obstinately pulling in a contrary direction at the same time.” This passage embodies one of the over arching themes of Macbeth. The character Macbeth, in Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, could easily identify with this passage due to the fact that he is pulled in opposite directions by both his desire to do what is right and his desire for power.
According to the classical view, tragedy should arouse feelings of pity and fear in the audience. Does macbeth do this?
Lady Macbeth is a vicious and overly ambitious woman, her desire of having something over rules all the moral behaviors that one should follow. On the beginning of the novel, Macbeth receives the news that if Duncan, the current king, passed away he would be the next one to the throne. So, Lady Macbeth induces Macbeth into killing Duncan by filling his mind with ambition and planting cruel seeds into his head. After accomplishing his deed of killing the king, he brings out the daggers that were used during the murder, and says, “I’ll go no more. I am afraid to think what I have done; look on’t again I dare not.” This is his first crime and Macbeth is already filled with guilt and regret. He shows the reader to be the weak one of the duo. Lady Macbeth as the cruel partner still has some sentiment and somewhat a weakness in her heart and mind. When talking about Duncan she says, “Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t.” Weakness is still present and will always be there throughout the novel but this one change the fact that Lady Macbeth is still the stronger and cruel one.
Macbeth’s ambition to obtain power convinces him that it is his destiny to become King of Scotland, and that he should do anything to fulfill that destiny, even if it involves him committing tremendously immoral acts such as murder. After Macbeth realizes that the witches may actually speak the truth due to the second prophecy (Thane of Cawdor) becoming true, he begins to have an eerie and frightening thought of him killing his king and friend, Duncan, in order to ac...