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    agree that we can both pity and condemn Lady Macbeth? Lady Macbeth’s character in the play ‘Macbeth’ has a view‚ which we can either pity her or condemn her. My view of Lady Macbeth is that she is only a woman and we must pity her. And also throughout the play she helps her husband and her relationship doesn’t even go well. She loves her husband but at the same time very ambitious‚ as shown by her immediate determination for Macbeth to be king. Lady Macbeth knows her husband well. She thinks he

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    Hamlet and Macbeth were written by William Shakespeare. The plays have the characters Lady Macbeth and Ophelia in them. Hamlet is a play about a man named Hamlet‚ who wants revenge for the murder of his father. Ophelia is Hamlet’s love interest in the play. Macbeth is about a man named Macbeth‚ who receives a prophecy that one day he will be king. Lady Macbeth is Macbeth’s wife in the play. Lady Macbeth is one of the main characters in Macbeth‚ while Ophelia is more of a side character more than

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    Claudius vs. Lady Macbeth 	 King Claudius of Hamlet and Lady Macbeth of Macbeth exhibit three similar qualities‚ dishonesty‚ evilness‚ and deceitfulness throughout the play; although sometimes they demonstrate these qualities in different ways‚ these qualities greatly affect the other characters in the plays . 	King Claudius and Lady Macbeth are similar in that they both let their crave of power and desire for the crown drive them to deceitfulness‚ corruption‚ and even murder

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    The multifaceted personality of Lady Macbeth Lady Macbeth is a multifaceted character‚ due to her ambition to be queen‚ manipulation of Macbeth and the mental consequences she faces. Ambition to make Macbeth king and herself queen‚ provides insight on Lady Macbeth’s personality. Upon hearing the prophecy of Macbeth to be king‚ her ambition consumes her and she summons the dark spirits to “unsex” her. She believes that in order to carry out the sinful deeds she is about to commit‚ the spirits must

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    Initially‚ the witches are the cause to leading Macbeth’s actions; although‚ Lady Macbeth encourages Macbeth to do these terrible actions. Similar to Macbeth’s character‚ Lady Macbeth becomes very ambitious for Macbeth to have his seat on the throne because she wants to have her throne along with Macbeth. In the footnotes of the play Margaret Kortes explains what Lady Macbeth says‚ “When you want something passionately‚ you also want to obtain it by fair means. You would not act dishonestly‚ yet

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    Discuss the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. How does it change and why? To what extend is their relationship the engine that drives the tragedy? In the play Macbeth‚ William Shakespeare introduces Lady Macbeth as ‘Macbeth’s dearest partner of greatness’. As the words ‘I have almost forgot the taste of fears’ echoed in the castle after the queen had died Macbeth cries ‘she should have died hereafter’. Indeed it was a tragedy to see this loving couple go down in pieces. The trust that

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    don’t think I could ever do it myself.” (Stein 41‚ 42) Besides‚ Lady Macbeth is being the same role as Eve‚ the both wives want to support their husbands to achieve their goals‚ but Lady Macbeth tries to push her husband into an evil side which is different from what Eve did. She wants to get rid of the women’s weakness and impels Macbeth to firms the decision of killing Duncan that shows she’s losing her humanity‚ because she knew Macbeth wants to get the authority of being a king‚ so she pretends as

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    Devon Owens Dr. Davis English 2 P.6b Macbeth Character Analysis After Reading a couple sections of “The Tragedy of Macbeth” I have seen some massive change in Lady Macbeth and Macbeth. Lady Macbeth was a ruthless woman who manipulated her husband into murdering‚but her character has shifted to a guilty‚anxious person. Macbeth was a man who contemplated being evil or not.He ended up killing Duncan and was immediately remorseful and paranoid.Then he isnstantly began performing

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    Witches Fair is foul and foul is fair “You should be women‚ And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.” –Banquo ACT I SCENE III 46-48 Of course‚ there are also the witches’ prophecies. Macbeth doesn’t realize the prophecies can mean anything other than how he interprets them. Of course‚ Macduff was born by c-section‚ so he was not technically born of woman. The armies advance up the hill from Birnam Wood with tree branches before them which makes it appear the wood is walking

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    bloodiest of Shakespeare’s tragedies‚ the action-packed “Macbeth” traces the fateful undoing of an ambitious Scottish general tempted by the prophecies of three mysterious witches and spurred to action by his scheming wife.” (Unknown ‚University Press‚ 2013) Throughout Macbeth Shakespeare uses comparison and contrast to bring out characteristics of his main character‚ Macbeth. Shakespeare uses comparisons with Duncan‚ Lady Macbeth‚ and Banquo to bring out aspects of Macbeth’s character

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