Similarities Between Lady Macbeth And The Laboratory

In this essay I will explore the ways writer’s present characters in different circumstances. The three main female characters I will contrast will be Lady Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Havisham by Carrol Ann Duffy and The women in laboratory by Robert Browning. I will analyze the choices made by the three protagonists and the unescapable consequences of them. The three texts create powerful imagery and through use of language and structure devices evoke strong perceptions from the audiences.

We as the audience are given the impression that both Lady Macbeth and the women in ‘The laboratory’ are ambitious and powerful as they both successfully choose to manipulate their men to make their aspirations a reality. Havisham however shows a lack

Lady Macbeth manipulates her husband when Macbeth hesitates in the murder of King Duncan and Lady Macbeth by far the dominant character in this scene insinuates him as a coward by lowering his masculinity and declares "I have given suck and know how tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, had I so sworn as you have done to this." Audiences would have been outraged and angered with her at this point because Lady Macbeth says that she would have taker her new born child of her breasts and smashed its head in if Macbeth asked her to do so, This implies that she’s really serious and anxious about the killing of king Duncan as she would executed her first born child straight away with no minute judgments. When we first meet Lady Macbeth she is depicted as overly ambitious and

The character he uses is a bitter and a crazy women who has been replaced by her husband by two other girls. Throughout the poem we can see she was furious when she was betrayed and since then she wanted to take her revenge by poisoning the two girls at the king’s palace where her ex-husband can see their dying faces. “Grind away, moisten and mash up thy paste.” the phrase 'Grind away' uses imperative verbs to shows the woman's eagerness for the chemist to make the poison and for it to be all perfect. Browning brings the description alive by using alliteration in the phrases 'moisten and mash' and 'Pound at thy powder'. This shows us that the narrator is not in a hurry and says she would rather watch the making of the poison than be dancing at the King's court, moreover the strong use of imperative verbs highlights that she is paranoid and impatient to seek revenge and she wants the poison to be passionate so it can reflect her ferocious intention towards the women. The use of imperative words shows she is very persuasive and she can enhance the way they act while they are making the poison and shows her passion and dignity to kill the women who ruined her life. She is clearly a proud women and is utterly outraged that she has been ‘betrayed’ her in this manner; the emotive metaphor “let death be felt” indicates she wants the two girls who