If you just watch the movie, without the in-depth study of the play itself, you will not be able to see the way Shakespeare had intended the role of Lady Macbeth to be played. If you read the play, you can see that she was definitely the one who pushed her husband into killing Duncan and also doing all those nasty deeds. You can imagine in your head that she is an evil person with no heart, cold-blooded as a murderer who has just killed a newborn baby. You would visual

Yet in the movie, I saw her as someone who wanted things done yet she was more docile and not even assertive at all. She seemed to be asking for favours more than she was ordering people around. This sense of weakness and softness in her voice, that we heard and saw during the movie, is what makes her seem fairly innocent. Innocent in the sense that she seems to be so caring for her husband that when she saw him breaking down after seeing the ghost of Banquo, she is the one to protect him from the guests. Also it seems that whenever she talks to Macbeth or anyone, her voice is frail, and almost always seems that she is at the verge of crying. We do not see the Lady Macbeth who is tomboyish yet we see her to be more lady-like. In the movie, we see her bustling about with her hair and what she was wearing. We see her taking the time to actually look pretty and her mannerism is still that of a lady. She talks to Macbeth and the other men referring to them as lords, as was accustomed in their time, as well as she was the one who was always at home, tending to the ru

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