THE ROLE OF LADY MACBETH IN SHAKESPEARE’S MACBETH: A PRODUCTION THESIS IN ACTING A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in The Department of Theatre by Taralyn Adele MacMullen B.A.‚ Greensboro College‚ 2002 May 2005 Acknowledgements The people who have helped me grow into the actor and person I am are too many to count
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Is lady Macbeth as bad and evil as people make her out to be? People thinks she’s a bad person because her husband wanted to become king. By being the wife of Macbeth‚ she is almost required to follow and help Macbeth with everything he does. Once the witches told Macbeth he would be king‚ he became obsessed and anxious. He was willing to to do almost anything even any dark deeds for the crown. And when lady Macbeth found out about this‚ she was extremely excited and was willing to do anything
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Lady Macbeth is responsible for her own downfall due to her involvement with supernatural forces‚ her ambition and her guilty conscience. Lady Macbeth claims that she can "look like the innocent flower/But be the serpent under ’t" (1‚5‚64-65). She imagines that she has the capability to be remorseless and determined enough to do anything. Yet‚ she calls upon supernatural forces to use to her advantage. She does not ask for the help of the dark side’ but demands it as though she could undermine
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committing atrocities whether in real life or those who are portrayed in fiction. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ Macbeth is susceptible to be corrupted by the yearning for power and Lady Macbeth does horrible deeds out of love for her husband. Although she appears evil‚ she loves her husband so much that she is willing to be unsexed‚ give her sanity and plot treason for her husband’s ambitions. Lady Macbeth is a woman‚ and as a woman she is automatically and unjustly associated with being a soft and warm-hearted
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As the main motivator to Macbeth’s actions‚ Lady Macbeth is a character whose ambition and greed lead her and her husband to their inevitable fate of death. Lady Macbeth’s relentlessness‚ as well as her longing for power generate an emotion of pain and suffering. After hearing the prophecies of her husband‚ Lady Macbeth is intent on making her husband King of Scotland‚ as she will not let anything get in her way; even if she needs to resort to murder. After Macbeth’s murder of King Duncan‚ she is
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dwindle‚ peak and pine: Though his bark cannot be lost Yet it shall be tempest-tost.” Much more than the other elements‚ the Witches introduce an element of supernatural mystery and fear into Macbeth. As Coleridge says‚ “as true a creation of Shakespeare’s as his Ariel and Caliban” and “wholly different from the representation of witches in the contemporary writers‚ and yet presented a sufficient external resemblance to the creatures of vulgar prejudice‚ to act immediately on the audience.” It is
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Throughout the play "Macbeth"‚ two of the main characters‚ Macbeth and Lady Macbeth gradually exchange roles. Macbeth is the kind‚ caring one of the two in the beginning‚ but completely changes as the play goes on‚ as with Lady Macbeth. She starts out as an evil‚ vicious beast. She is an evil woman who is bond and determined to kill Duncan. At the end of the play this character feels guilt for what she has done and has taken the personality‚ which was that of her husband in the beginning.<br><br>At
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In Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth‚ the following statement can be applied‚ "Macbeth is a butcher and Lady Macbeth is a fiend-like queen." This is a true statement as many occurrences involving Macbeth and Lady Macbeth portray them in this way. A butcher can be defined as someone who kills or has people killed needlessly or brutally. The term butcher used in this way describes Macbeth to some extent. During the play‚ Macbeth is involved in the murder of many people‚ including King Duncan‚ Banquo‚ and
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After Macbeth finalizes his decision to murder King Duncan‚ he tells Lady Macbeth‚ “False face must hide what the false heart doth know” (Shakespeare 1.7.). This conversation is held as King Duncan and his men dine at Macbeth’s own table‚ a meal that would be the king’s last. During the feast‚ Macbeth steps away to ponder what he is about to do‚ as he still has his reservations. Knowing this‚ Lady Macbeth finds her husband and begins to persuade him to keep his promise and go through with the murder
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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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