Macbeth's Fears About Her Husband
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8) How do Lady Macbeth’s fears about her husband correspond with what we have heard about Macbeth so far?
In the first Act of Shakespeare’s play ‘Macbeth,’ the protagonist is portrayed as brave and courageous man. However, after the witches’ prophesized that he could become king his ambitions change from loyalty and courage to selfishness and greed. Macbeth knew that if he wanted to become king to had to slay Duncan, his relative. However, he is too loyal, instead he seeks Lady Macbeth for advice. She is eager to become queen, labelling Macbeth unmanly and fearful. ‘What thou art promis’d; yet …show more content…
Lady Macbeth associates her womanhood as being ‘warm and kind’ Despite this she prays to be unsexed. ‘Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here And fill me from the ground to the toe top full.’ She believes that her unique feminie traits would be better replaces with masculine traits; therefore prayed to be unsexed. She also demands Macbeth to murder Duncan in order to fulfil the witch’s prophecy. This is also not a feminist trait which is another reason why she prays to be unsexed. It is evidently clear why Lady Macbeth prays to be unsexed from the reasoning’s …show more content…
(Lady Macbeth) ‘Than would make up his message give him tending; he brings great news, The raven himself is a hoarse.’ (Banquo) ‘The temple hunting martlet, does approve by his lov’d mansionry, that the heaven’s breath Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze, buttress, Nor coign of vantage, but this bird hath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle: Where they most breed and haunt, I have observ’d The air is delicate.’ These two phrases contradict each other, which makes the audience confused. It keeps the audience more alert and wary. Lady Macbeth describes the castle as ‘Duncan’s fatal entrance,’ where as Duncan describes it as, ‘ The temple haunting martlet, does approve, by his lov’d mansionry, that heavens breathe. These two phrases clearly contradict each which Shakespeare uses to confuse the audience.
11) What is Lady Macbeth’s approach to convince Macbeth? How and why is this significant in relation to her previous
8) How do Lady Macbeth’s fears about her husband correspond with what we have heard about Macbeth so far?
In the first Act of Shakespeare’s play ‘Macbeth,’ the protagonist is portrayed as brave and courageous man. However, after the witches’ prophesized that he could become king his ambitions change from loyalty and courage to selfishness and greed. Macbeth knew that if he wanted to become king to had to slay Duncan, his relative. However, he is too loyal, instead he seeks Lady Macbeth for advice. She is eager to become queen, labelling Macbeth unmanly and fearful. ‘What thou art promis’d; yet …show more content…
Lady Macbeth associates her womanhood as being ‘warm and kind’ Despite this she prays to be unsexed. ‘Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here And fill me from the ground to the toe top full.’ She believes that her unique feminie traits would be better replaces with masculine traits; therefore prayed to be unsexed. She also demands Macbeth to murder Duncan in order to fulfil the witch’s prophecy. This is also not a feminist trait which is another reason why she prays to be unsexed. It is evidently clear why Lady Macbeth prays to be unsexed from the reasoning’s …show more content…
(Lady Macbeth) ‘Than would make up his message give him tending; he brings great news, The raven himself is a hoarse.’ (Banquo) ‘The temple hunting martlet, does approve by his lov’d mansionry, that the heaven’s breath Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze, buttress, Nor coign of vantage, but this bird hath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle: Where they most breed and haunt, I have observ’d The air is delicate.’ These two phrases contradict each other, which makes the audience confused. It keeps the audience more alert and wary. Lady Macbeth describes the castle as ‘Duncan’s fatal entrance,’ where as Duncan describes it as, ‘ The temple haunting martlet, does approve, by his lov’d mansionry, that heavens breathe. These two phrases clearly contradict each which Shakespeare uses to confuse the audience.
11) What is Lady Macbeth’s approach to convince Macbeth? How and why is this significant in relation to her previous