... king. She wishes for him to hurry home so that she can overcome him with the power of her words and influence his thoughts and feelings on the matter to make him change his mind. "Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear, and chastise with the valour of my tongue" Duncan announces that he is coming to stay at Macbeths" castle. This ... and single business to contend against those honours deep and broad, werewith your majesty loads our house:" Meanwhile Macbeth begins to question his own beliefs and those of his wife that have been forced upon him. He wonders why he had a...

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• Grade Level: High School

... their personal folio of her character. The idea of having to call upon the "spirits" and gods, the most divine of beings also can be interpreted to suggest multiple meanings. The fact that Lady Macbeth has to call upon the most powerful of beings suggests the extent of Macbeth's kindness, that only the most commanding of beings has the dominance to sway Macbeth's conscience. Alternatively, the act of Lady Macbeth calling upon the most divine of beings can be ... shall sun that morrow see!" (1.5.71-72), basically ordering Macbeth to murder him in their own house. Lady Macbeth is obviousl...

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• Grade Level: High School

... their personal folio of her character. The idea of having to call upon the "spirits" and gods, the most divine of beings also can be interpreted to suggest multiple meanings. The fact that Lady Macbeth has to call upon the most powerful of beings suggests the extent of Macbeth's kindness, that only the most commanding of beings has the dominance to sway Macbeth's conscience. Alternatively, the act of Lady Macbeth calling upon the most divine of beings can be ... shall sun that morrow see!" (1.5.71-72), basically ordering Macbeth to murder him in their own house. Lady Macbeth is obviousl...

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• Grade Level: High School

... preys on her husband's faults to carry out the "dreadful deed" that sparks both of their gradual descents into insanity and despair. Initially, she is presented as a dark, dire woman begging to be filled with spirits of "direst cruelty." As the play progressives, we see her interact with the good but naive King Duncan. She puts on her face of the "innocent flower" and preys upon Duncan's naivete ... as the serpent. Once Duncan is murdered and done with, Macbeth seems to take a turn for ... . Their conversation ends there for now and we see Lady Macbeth, and not Macbeth himself, greeting...

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... from Macbeth as she goes and talks to the evil spirits to make herself evil with lines such as "Fill me from the crown to the toe-top full of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood". She goes to the extent of planning the murder of Duncan and assumes full responsibility of this. She exerts a lot of power over Macbeth in this part of the play and even calls him a "coward" and this ... . At this point Lady Macbeth is in complete control and has tried to make Macbeth free of guilt even though he in fact did perform the deed. Lady Macbeth is then able to exclaim in horror "What! In our House!" ...

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... . She bids him wash his hands and change his bloody clothes. On hearing news of the night's murder, she answers as hostess: "What, in our house?" When Macbeth's motives are questioned, Lady Macbeth distracts the confused company. Maybe she actually faints. These are, after all, impossible burdens upon a "weaker vessel." But whether she faints, or fakes it to protect Macbeth, she provides a good example ... and her husband equally. She immediately concludes that "the fastest way" for Macbeth to become king is by murdering King Duncan. Lady Macbeth's immediate thoughts may make her appear ...

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... Shakespeare's Macbeth, Lady Macbeth serves as a complete counterexample against those biases. This is most prevalent in the scene right when she hears of the three witches' prophecies of Macbeth becoming king. "Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty." (Macbeth, I, v, 47-50) Immediately, Lady Macbeth begins to stand out ... 's authority. Even her final act-suicide-was supposedly a demonstration of her unwillingness to submit to Creon, to the mortal world, and to serve the dead. Even while walking down...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate