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    Discuss whether or not you feel sympathy for Lady Macbeth There are certain aspects of Lady Macbeth’s character that suggests she is good and therefore her downfall increases my sympathy for her by the end of act 5. But I would also argue that she entailed evil to fuel her sleeping ambition that would make her nemesis‚ her mental collapse‚ fully justified. Lady Macbeth’s role as a supporting wife at the start of the play exceeds the duties of a ‘normal’ wife. She is the ‘Eve’ to Macbeth’s

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    Macbeth The play I chose is Macbeth‚ written by William Shakespeare. The protagonist of the story is Macbeth. He starts out as a brave‚ noble warrior‚ but by the end he is a disgrace to his nation. In the beginning his guilt is almost too strong to bear‚ but by the end he only cares about being the king. Lady Macbeth is almost as important to the story as her husband. She seems heartless at first‚ but her guilt takes over in time. The main antagonist to Macbeth is probably Malcolm. Malcolm is the

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    about choices. In the tragedy of Macbeth‚ by William Shakespeare‚ Lady Macbeth makes a series of choices that have terrible consequences for others. Lady Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most famous and frightening female characters. She becomes known as a ambitious woman. When we first see her‚ she is already plotting Duncan’s murder‚ and she is stronger‚ ruthless‚ and ambitious than her husband. She seems fully aware of this and knows that she will have to push Macbeth into committing murder. At one

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    In the story Lady Macbeth role in the story is significant‚ she is an evil‚ ruthless‚ and ambitions Person. She is responsible for the murders that her husband commits because she was blood-Thirsty for the crown. In fact she then becomes more eager to get the crown than Macbeth Himself and then soon realizes that once you commit one violent act there is no way of ever turning back. An analysis of Lady Macbeth reveals that she is a powerful character who adds complexity and depth to a play about murder

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    Macbeth The play I chose is Macbeth‚ written by William Shakespeare. The protagonist of the story is Macbeth. He starts out as a brave‚ noble warrior‚ but by the end he is a disgrace to his nation. In the beginning his guilt is almost too strong to bear‚ but by the end he only cares about being the king. Lady Macbeth is almost as important to the story as her husband. She seems heartless at first‚ but her guilt takes over in time. The main antagonist to Macbeth is probably Malcolm. Malcolm is the

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    LADY MACBETH Throughout the play Lady Macbeth transforms from a strong ambitious woman into a crazed‚ power obsessed psychopath‚ who eventually lets her hunger for royalty get the best of her. In one beginning of one play lady Macbeth is of high honor who along with her husband‚ is very well respected among other people. She quickly becomes obsessed with the feeling of being superior she gained and starts to itch for something more‚ she tries to persuade her husband into killing King Duncan so

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    Lady Macbeth is a character in Shakespeare’s Macbeth (c.1603–1607). She is the wife to the play’s protagonist‚ Macbeth‚ a Scottish nobleman. After goading him into committing regicide‚ she becomes Queen of Scotland‚ but later suffers pangs of guilt for her part in the crime. She dies off-stage in the last act‚ an apparent suicide. The character’s origins lie in the accounts of Kings Duff and Duncan in Holinshed’s Chronicles (1587)‚ a history of Britain familiar to Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s Lady

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    Lady Macbeth loses her sanity totally by act 5. Her insanity is foregrounded in the first scene of the act in Macbeth.The gentlewoman serving Lady Macbeth feels simultaneously sympathy and a sense of bitterness to such heinous path Lady Macbeth along with Macbeth chose to achieve success. In act 5‚ scene 1 of Macbeth‚ it is presented that Lady Macbeth has lost her senses‚ and suffers from sleepwalking. She seems to have also a mania regarding her feeling of having blood in her hands. In the beginning

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    Macbeth’ was written around about 1603-1607 and no one really knows when the exact date ’Hamlet’ was written‚ but it was approximately in 1599-1601. The plays written were both tragedies written by William Shakespeare. ’Macbeth’ was about a man who was told a prophecy by three witches that he will be lord of Cawdor and he will become King. So he killed the former King of Scotland for himself and his wife Lady Macbeth to become king and queen‚ he was not alone in the murder his wife manipulated

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    English Literature GCSE- Controlled Assessment Explore the ways Shakespeare and Dickens present Lady Macbeth and Miss Havisham as disturbed characters Shakespeare and Dickens both show disturbed characters in their play or novel. Shakespeare wrote Macbeth in1606‚ this gives us better idea of the time were they thought that witches were real and Shakespeare wrote this play because he wanted to impress the king. On the other hand Dickens didn’t want to impress anyone by writing a novel based on

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