Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare's Macbeth
In act 1 scene, we see lady MacBeth reading a letter that her husband,
MacBeth has sent her, it has been written as a soliloquy, she reads
aloud to the audience how he has been given information about his
future by a group of witches. MacBeth sent this letter to his wife
quickly, he is was obviously pleased with the news and wanted her to
know about it. This gives the audience the impression that Lady
MacBeth was very dominant in their relationship, and by telling her
about the prophecy she would know what to do. Lady MacBeth already
knows that MacBeth is the Thane of Cawdor and according to the witches
prophecy he will soon be King. But she says, "Yet do I fear thy
nature. It is too full o' milk of kindness To catch the nearest way."
Lady MacBeth is worried that her husband is to weak to do what has to
be done. Already we see that Lady MacBeth has formed a plan. Lady
MacBeth thinks that MacBeth will be King, and at this point in the
play we start to see the evil side of her begin to come out. She
decides that he is too kind and must be changed, "That I may pour my
spirits in thine ear, and chastise with the valour of my tongue" she
means she will persuade him to do what she wants. In her plan MacBeth
must be ruthless, "the illness should attend" (a touch of evil) .She
knows MacBeth would rather do it the right way rather than cheat to
get what he wants. As the act continues the audience experiences
exactly how evil Lady MacBeth can be. After hearing the news that
Duncan the King is coming to stay at the castle, Lady MacBeth prepares
herself for what her and her husband must do. She star...
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...erful body language to get across to the audience the
feelings of remorse and weakness. she would have to keep up a guard of
pretending to hard and cruel but sometimes let the kindness of Lady
Macbeth's character come out.
I think Macduff's comment is correct in some ways and wrong in others.
Lady MacBeth has many evil and calculating characteristics but I think
she truly felt that what she was doing would make her husband happy. I
think what she thought she was doing was a selfless act and only
wanted him to be great. I think what we thought was evil in her was
really incredible ambition. But then again she did plan and help kill
a king in cold blood and used everything evil to help her. If I had to
blame anyone it would be the witches, it was there doing that made
lady MacBeth what she became, "a fiend like queen".
...ain. He had her and he would rather die than see her get away again.
Beloved, she was exactly as her name. A spirit that came and left just like the wind. Although she caused a lot of broken hearts and pain. She never meant to hurt anyone, she just wanted rest and the only way to receive that rest was by revisiting the woman that caused her pain and murdered her.
Lady Macbeth as a Wife and as a Woman in William Shakespeare's Macbeth. In the play Macbeth, there is one main relationship. This is between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth. At the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth.
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.
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as A Dead Butcher and His Fiend-like Queen in William Shakespeare's Macbeth
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In Act 1, scene7 she really excel’s herself in how far she will go to manipulate Macbeth, to get her way. He not prepared for her rage when he announces his change of heart.
I believe that Shakespeare depicted Lady Macbeth as a very ambitious character who has a lot of power over her husband. However, it is only after she calls upon the supernatural that she becomes utterly ruthless and cruel.
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...thers as well. Her manipulative ways can be seen throughout the novel, specifically when she hides her marriage and pregnancy and when she seeks revenge on others. Therefore, she is undoubtedly evil. Ultimately, because it is the Duchess’s own personal decisions that result in everyone in the story being killed, she is the true villain of this story.
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This scene clearly shows us that she wants to be evil, but also, that she isn’t fully there yet. However, it mainly proves to us that underneath her confidence and assurance is a person, craving to become cruel. Scared of what she is going to do, about the guilt she doesn’t want to feel and mostly, about not being able to deal with it. She asks the devil to not let “heaven peep through the blanket of the dark”. This indicates us that she knows ...
In scene 5 we learn how powerful she really is by the way she makes a
Throughout William Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is presented as an evil, cold-hearted person, but, when it comes to the actual act of committing the murder, Lady Macbeth does not commit murder. In the end, it is Macbeth who plunges the knife into Duncan’s heart. Lady Macbeth had planned the whole murder, brought the daggers, and even intoxicated the guards, but it is Macbeth who ultimately killed Duncan. After the crime is committed, it is Macbeth who collapses and Lady Macbeth who smears blood on the guards to complete their plan. From Lady Macbeth actions, it is readily apparent that she is physiologically and physical capable of committing murder, but why does she not? Lady Macbeth is unable to kill Duncan because of the 1600s notion of how a woman should be, Macbeth, being a man should, be the one to seek power, and Lady Macbeth’s feminine qualities forbid her to commit such a crime.