Lady Macbeth starts out as a strong character; she seeks power. Though it would appear she seeks power more for herself than Macbeth‚ "Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it.." and‚ " When I burned in desire to question them further.." she appears more infatuated with what power she’d hold if Macbeth becomes king more than the power he would wield. She struggles in the beginning to believe the sisters of their prophecy‚ "The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly‚ That wouldst thou holily;
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play Macbeth‚ Lady Macbeth is very mischievous and ruthless person. Her first response to hearing that her husband could become king is that he should kill the king. This shows that Lady Macbeth is courageous than her husband. Macbeth writes to his wife that the witches have spoke of him inheriting the crown. She responds with “Glamis thou art‚ and Cawdor‚ and shalt be what thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness “(16). In this response Lady Macbeth
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The Shakespearean play "Macbeth" follows what is expected in a Shakespearean tragedy by containing characteristics similar to all Shakespearean tragedies. These are the fatal flaws in Macbeth‚ the fall of noble‚ respectable man with great qualities‚ Macbeth‚ and Macbeth’s terrible murder of the King in order to obtain the crown‚ which causes absolute chaos. Macbeth’s character contains fatal flaws that cause him to do evil. These fatal flaws are a limitation to Macbeth’s otherwise worthy character
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play is not entirely evil? At the climax of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” the antihero of the play has been so consumed by his hamartia‚ “vaulting ambition”‚ that he has become a character who’s life “signi(fies) nothing” and who’s soldiers “Move only in command/ Nothing in love” . This reflects the descent into chaos of the play itself as the world appears to be completely treacherous and has lost all order by the last act of the play. Macbeth could be said to epitomise the evil as he ruthlessly kills
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tragedy of “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare‚ Lady Macbeth’s actions make her partially responsible for the tragedy‚ however‚ other factors also contributed. The witches offered great enticement towards Lord and Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s fatal flaws of ambition and vulnerability to persuasion by others also resulted in the murder of King Duncan and thus‚ the tragedy. It is evident that Lady Macbeth’s ability to persuade and manipulate Macbeth played a part in the tragedy. Lady Macbeth is shown early
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"Come‚ you spirits; That tend on mortal thoughts‚ unsex me here " In Macbeth‚ William Shakespeare writes this passage in order to tell us about the character of Lady Macbeth. Using only this line‚ we can almost determine Lady Macbeth’s personality and her motives. Up to the point where this quote leaves off‚ we have not heard much of Lady Macbeth. In the first line Lady Macbeth says‚ "Come‚ you spirits." Already we have a dark image of her conjuring up evil spirits. She does not seem a bit intimidated
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Lady Macbeth’s Treachery Upon our introduction to Lady Macbeth‚ in Act I Scene V‚ we learn equally as much about Lady Macbeth as we do about Macbeth himself. Lady Macbeth reads aloud a letter written to her by Macbeth‚ describing his meeting with the three weird women‚ and his predicted fortunes made by them. Upon hearing of Macbeth’s supposed greatness‚ Lady Macbeth expresses both her excitement‚ as well as doubt in her husband’s abilities. In Act I Scene V line 16 she states‚ “Yet do I fear thy
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Throughout the tragic play Macbeth by William Shakespeare‚ one sees that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth long harboured the ambition to one day rule Scotland. One can see that this is completely correct by examining their relationship‚ characters and forces which tempted them. In the start of Macbeth‚ Macbeth was originally loyal‚ honest‚ “brave”-[2] and “worthy.”-[2] As the play progresses one sees that Macbeth becomes obsessed with having power. One comes to realise that his “vaulting ambition”-[1] is
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How and why does Macbeth turn from War Hero to Evil Murderer? At the start of the well-known (and written) play ‘Macbeth‚ you would have had no idea that the main character even had the capability to become the ‘evil butcher’ that he does by the end of the play. This impression is etched into our minds by speeches by the sergeant (all the way through act 1‚ Scene 2)‚ who seems eager to praise and upgrade Macbeth’s status as much as he possibly can; “Brave Macbeth – well he deserves that name” he
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William Shakespeare illustrated this in his play Macbeth. Some may say that the weird sisters within the play are responsible for the actions of Macbeth and that his wife‚ Lady Macbeth‚ acted as a catalyst to persuade and manipulate Macbeth to commit regicide‚ but truly all they did was simply put thoughts into his head. They set the play in motion but Macbeth is fully responsible for his own
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