Shakespeare’s "Macbeth"‚ we see a lot of evil; we see evil people and we see evil acts. We can see that - almost - everyone has an evil desire within them. However‚ only a really evil person acts on that impulse and commits something morally wrong. An evil deed doesn’t necessarily mean an evil soul; Lady Macbeth was not naturally evil. Before her and her husband came to the conclusion of killing‚ they had their doubts. How can someone be pure evil‚ if they doubt the evil that they want to commit? Lady Macbeth’s
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Lady Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most famous and frightening female characters. Women‚ as the play implies‚ can be as ambitious and cruel as men‚ yet social limits deny them the means to pursue these ambitions on their own. Lady Macbeth is an example of how women use their female methods of achieving power: for example through manipulation. One of the impressions that the audience get when they first meet Lady Macbeth is that she is very ambitious. In Act 1‚ Scene 5 when Macbeth enters she
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As the end drew near‚ Lady Macbeth was no longer able to drive off the guilt‚ while Macbeth became unreined and free‚ relying completely on himself. As time goes on‚ Lady Macbeth’s guilt grows stronger while she is given less to do: “She had no way of escaping from her own thoughts‚ no way of plunging into such a course of action as might help to keep away the remembrance of the past or to relieve the present” (Munro 33). As her guilt has caught up with her‚ Lady Macbeth has been driven completely
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The Dark Side of Lady Macbeth Lady Macbeth is considered to be one of the most dominant female characters in literature. She is portrayed as an innocent‚ loving wife at the start of the story. She receives the letter from Macbeth that explains the witches’ prophecies. She then rapidly changes into a heartless and conniving human being‚ she decided to plot against Duncan for the sake of her opportunity to become queen‚ but does not want to do the deed herself. Lady Macbeth is deemed as the villain
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Macbeth is a tragic tale about a young man that is tricked into his doom.This is an unfortunate story because Macbeth in the beginning was a loyal warrior that fighted for the king. In the end he ends up being one of the most untrustworthy men in the story. In this tale Macbeth is made thane of cawdor because the old cawdor betrayed the king and began to fight for the other side‚ in the end he is executed and the position is giving to Macbeth. In Macbeth defense it was not his fault that Macbeth was tricked into killing the King
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Lady Macbeth Lady Macbeth of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ is a familiar character even to those that have never read the play. Her name can be heard being referenced or used as an insult to a woman‚ to compare a shady or manipulative personality trait. Although she does not actually commit any murders‚ she is notably one of the most famous villains in literature. I found it very interesting that prior to reading this play‚ I knew more about Lady Macbeth and her character flaws (to say the least)
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pity to those who bring pain upon themselves; nobody pities a serial killer‚ yet in Frankenstein‚ the creature‚ which is in essence a serial killer‚ is given sympathy by the viewer and it doesn’t seem logical. In Macbeth‚ the reader gives compassion out to both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth for the grief they give themselves‚ while they kill people and feel terrible upon realizing their own actions. Even though the characters in these pieces of literature
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Lady Macbeth was brought into the play reading the letter from her husband‚ Macbeth. I began to think‚ as we started the play‚ that Lady Macbeth was linked to one of the weird sisters. When she read the letter out loud‚ she said it in a very firm tone of voice. I was confused on why she was like this since her husband was given the opportunity to become the Thane of Cawdor. Later on in the scene‚ she begins to summon up spirits to give her the power to go on with her plan to kill Duncan. I think
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MacBeth In The Tragedy of MacBeth‚ Lady MacBeth has strong id characteristics‚ and is not well balanced because her superego is severely out-weighed by her id. The id‚ superego‚ and ego are the 3 parts of a person’s psychological make up‚ according to Freudian psychology. Freud explained that the id is the part of the personality that demands basic needs and fulfillment‚ the selfish characteristics. The id tries to attain fulfillment through such things like sex‚ money‚ power‚
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A majority of the first question was discussed in reference to Macbeth’s nature and the fact that Lady Macbeth was the one that ultimately influenced him to do everything that he did. It was agreed that they were both equally guilty. I challenged this idea by expressing that Lady Macbeth is morally sound on every account and that if she contributed anything at all‚ it was about 10% of the actual problem. Although there was disagreement after that notion‚ I emphasized that there were a lot of dark
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