... prophecies on the possibility of Kingship. A variety of well-known topics are explored, including the revelation of the true traits of characters such as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. "Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be What thou art promised; yet do I fear thy nature, It is too full o'th ... through the words "What thou art promised". The idea of having soliloquy interacting with the witches" predictions creates a sense of spirituality. This being Lady Macbeth's first appearance in the play is effective as it allows the reader to associate this sense of spirituality and evil with her ...

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... itself, she can not carry through with the act. Therefore, she uses her husband's vulnerability to persuasion to achieve her dreams. The relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth is based on political triumphs, not love.Lady Macbeth often accuses her husband of talking but not carrying through his ambitions. Although, she often talks about becoming queen of Scotland and murdering Duncan, she ... goal of becoming queen. She is completely aware of the consequences of urdering Duncan, but she disregards them. Before the murder she calls night to cover up the murder. Lady Macbeth at lea...

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... emphasised. Her words become more rhythmic and what she says seems almost like an incantation. Poetic phrases like: "Hie thee hither,"" begin to appear, giving the audience the impression that Lady Macbeth is using black magic or evil hexes to gain her means. As she goes on, she becomes even more witch-like, using pagan imagery such as a raven and evil spirits ... though her ambition drives her to evil behaviour, her intentions are never completely malicious. In act three, scene two, I believe that it is almost conclusively proven that Lady Macbeth is not pure evil. In this scene, Lady ...

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... to kill him. The last scene of act 1, the seventh, is very important. The couple's relationship is really brought out and Lady Macbeth fully persuades Macbeth to continue his task. It starts with Macbeth, on his own, having doubts about what he is about to do. He realises that Duncan is his cousin, family and doesn't ... her, because he is not showing support in her idea. "Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat I" th" adage?" This is Lady Macbeth showing him that he wants to be King, but doesn't want to commit the murder. Like the cat that wanted the fish in the pond,...

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... she prepares a potion to ensure the chamberlains will sleep through Duncan's murder. After her husband forgets to leave the murder weapon at the scene, Lady Macbeth puts it back. She tidies up after the murder. She bids him wash his hands and change his bloody clothes. On hearing news of the ... all his objections; when he hesitates to murder, she repeatedly questions his manhood until he feels that he must commit murder to prove himself. Lady Macbeth's remarkable strength of will persists through the murder of the king "it is she who steadies her husband's nerves immediately after the ...

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... equipped for the psychic consequences of his crime. Thus, Macbeth himself, is responsible for the tragedy within the play. Lady Macbeth uses her sexuality to manipulate Macbeth into killing King Duncan, which makes her somewhat responsible for Macbeth's downfall. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth's relationship becomes tense when Lady Macbeth threatens their sex life. The imagery of impotence evoked by Lady Macbeth, suggests that Macbeth lacks the ability to perform sexually, he loses his ... nerve and becomes "pale and green." Lady Macbeth further denigrates Macbeth's masculinity; she manipulat...

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... that begins "If it were done, when 'tis done; then 'twere well/It were done quickly." He is deeply disturbed at the prospective sin of killing a king and a blood relative. Lady Macbeth enters and mocks her husband's fears. When he asks about what would happen if the plan fails, his wife derides this possibility with the rhetorical question, "We fail?" Her bloody ... as he greets them. Macduff exits the stage to see the king; he returns immediately with the news that Duncan has been slain. An alarm is sounded and Macbeth runs to the king's chambers. Lady Macbeth appears as well, and the ...

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... they suffered physically when they began losing sleep and Lady Macbeth began sleepwalking. They were unable to function, which led to Lady Macbeth's suicide and Macbeth's murder. In spite of their similarities, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth were also different in several ways. In the beginning of the play Macbeth was loyal and respected; Lady Macbeth was also respected. However, Lady Macbeth had evil ideas as soon as she began ... thinking of becoming queen. Macbeth however, stayed loyal, at first even though ... him into murdering anybody or anything so he could become king and make her hap...

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... to Duncan. He really wanted to kill Duncan in the deep of his heart and all he needed was just a little "recognize" or support from the others. Many people thought Lady Macbeth was a ruthless woman who wanted to be "unsex" and to be helped by the evil spirit. At the end of the story, this concept became incorrect because we saw she ... she refused to kill him by herself. These both showed that Lady Macbeth still had the human kindness in her heart. Macbeth was the one became brutal and killed lots of innocent live later on, but not Lady Macbeth. So at the end, Shakespeare made Macbeth a...

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... has left she says: "The raven himself is horse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan." (1:5:38) Later on in the same scene, Lady Macbeth calls upon evil spirits to take away all that is feminine about her, to make her truly evil and without remorse so that she"ll ... being able to kill him herself. Either way this shows weakness, which belies her hard exterior. However, as soon as Macbeth shows signs of regret, saying his bloody hands are "a sorry sight", Lady Macbeth replies with: "A foolish thought to say a sorry sight." (2:2:22) "Consider it not so deeply." (2:2:31) Any ... and r...

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... she hears the prophecy, she feels that she also deserves the power and prestige. The lust for power drives her to push and encourage Macbeth to kill Duncan. Acting as the instigator and motivator, Lady Macbeth questions and provokes Macbeth's abilities and desires: "Wherein you dress'd yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it ... is restored in the kingdom. The murder of King Duncan, the murder of Banquo, the vision of the dagger, and the sleep-walking of Lady Macbeth all take place during darkness, symbolizing evil. At the begging of the pla...

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... he us totally unnerved at the sight of Banquo's ghost at the feast and his rationality temporarily deserts him, it is the last time we see Lady Macbeth acting as the stronger partner. She covers up for him whilst at the same time questioning his manliness at him having such hallucinations. " .Are ... which is able to appreciate each partners anguish at these times, rather than the couple who have become increasingly cut off from eachother. Lady Macbeth's last appearance in the play comes in the sleepwalking scene where her guilty conscience finally cannot be suppressed any longer and al...

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... for Duncan, mitigates his regret in killing such a great king, and entices him to take further action to maintain his power as king. If it weren't for Lady Macbeth, Macbeth would never have the true sinister, villainous conviction, nor the courage to commit such acts. This makes her the radical, polar opposite of the stereotypical tender, loving, ... , loving woman, she still possesses the stable heroic qualities that differentiate her from the fragility of a tender, loving woman. Both Shakespeare and Sophocles portray Lady Macbeth and Antigone as direct counterexamples against this ste...

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... own ambition convinces her husband to murder the king and take his fate into his own hands. The murder is then carried out, however it has left Macbeth in great distress and in a state of shock. Lady Macbeth criticizes her husband for being weak but helps him to cover up the deed to look innocent. When Duncan's body is discovered by Macduff and ... him enough 'reason' to hire 2 assassins to get rid of Banquo along with his son Fleance. After the murder Banquo's ghost appears to Macbeth during the banquet, terrorizing him. Lady Macbeth tell their guests to leave due to Macbeth's supposed...

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... about how he became the Thane of Cawdor and the witches" prophecy of Kingship and thinks what it could mean. After that Lady Macbeth starts to hint to Macbeth that she wants him to kill Duncan. Macbeth gets teased and bullied by Lady Macbeth to murder him. He also starts to hallucinate and sees daggers floating in front of him in his mind, he says "Is ... more information about these prophecies and asks how this could possibly happen, but there is no answer and they just vanish. Duncan's Death Duncan's death starts getting definite when first Lady Macbeth hints to Macbeth about how she ...

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... she wants all her womanly charms taken away so hat she will have no fear in committing murder. From this scene and the next the audience can tell that Lady Macbeth is evil. She is his first ally in the planning of the murder and a strong influence over him. Therefore you can tell that her evil will arise ... whoever may look innocent in the play is not necessarily so and the caring sincere sides of Lady Macbeth and her husband are simply false fronts in the scenes to follow. The last scene of Act 1 is of Lady Macbeth trying to persuade Macbeth to commit the murder. She uses three differen...

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... o describe him only as a butcher because he has a sensitive mind. If Macbeth is villainous, Lady Macbeth is equally villainous and more ruthless and ambitious. Lady Macbeth is clearly the villain described as the "fiend like queen". Lady Macbeth uses her cunning and deceptive skills to browbeat Macbeth into killing King Duncan. When Lady Macbeth receives the letter telling her about the witches' prophecies, she immediately thinks that she ... Is to full o' the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way" (Lady Macbeth- Act 1 scene V). Lady Macbeth uses a lot of euphemisms through out...

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... lusting for power, doing nearly anything to achieve that power, and ultimately meeting his/her end because of that power. Shakespeare illustrates this theme most vividly through the character of Lady Macbeth, an ambitious woman living in medieval Scotland. She craves for power but is ironically driven crazy by it, for the power reflects the wicked schemes that she contrives to attain ... and causes her to believe that no matter how cruel a deed she carries out, as long as its purpose is to achieve power, she will never feel reprehensible. As a result, Lady Macbeth declares that blood ca...

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... audience to think badly of her. But after this scene people may begin to feel sorry for Lady Macbeth. To understand why the audience may feel this way towards Lady Macbeth we have to go back to earlier acts in the play. The audience believe that Lady Macbeth is evil as she wants to kill King Duncan in order for her to gain power as her ... to kill Duncan she would still get the same punishment as Macbeth. Until act 5 scene 1 Macbeth has been tormented with visions, nightmares and disturbances in his sleep while Lady Macbeth scolds him for his weakness. Now the audience witnesses the way...

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... he has to stop being such a coward if he wants to kill Duncan. Lady Macbeth knows just how to manipulate her husband into doing anything she wants him to do. Eventually, Macbeth stops thinking for himself and does whatever Lady Macbeth wants. After Macbeth was crowned king, he stopped sharing his plans with Lady Macbeth and relied solely on the witches and their apparitions. The witches and their ... would be happy as king. However, once Duncan was murdered, their relationship began to grow fragile. He began keeping secrets from Lady Macbeth such as murdering Banquo and Macduff's family...

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... clever fashion which leaves a lot of different factors undecided. This means that there are many different viewpoints which one could take on whether or not Lady Macbeth was responsible for the murder of King Duncan. There is a lot of evidence suggesting that she either was or was not responsible. So it ... is necessary that I take all of the different points into consideration. We are given the impression that Lady Macbeth is a powerful woman who's sex appeal gives her influential properties over a lot of her husbands decisions. She is also a woman of great ... the time, bear welcome i...

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... fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal. (1.5 23-33) In these lines you find out how badly Lady Macbeth wants Macbeth to become King. Maybe even more than even Macbeth does. Lady Macbeth even plans how to kill Duncan and tells Macbeth exactly how it is going to be done, and what role he is going to play during and after the murder ... . Lady Macbeth uses negative words in order to keep Macbeth from falling back on what she has planned for him to do. Lady Macbeth says to Macbeth, "What beast was't, then, / That made you break this enterprise to me? / When you durst...

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... her, She tries to focus on the future; such as her husband being crowned, or anything that will distract her from pondering the consequences of her and Macbeth's horrible actions. Also, as the play starts to progress, Lady Macbeth's wrongdoings slowly inundate her mind and she begins to contemplate about "What's to be done?- (III.II.44) By the closing scenes of the ... Macbeth, Lady Macbeth's weak, unsure, and unstable nature is revealed. Surprisingly, Lady Macbeth is horrified by the site of blood. "Out damned spot!- (V.1.31.) Although the blood is only a hallucination, Lady Macbeth no...

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... her to call upon the spirits to fill her "from the crown to the toe topfull Of direst cruelty". Since Lady Macbeth feels that femininity is weak, she also calls upon the spirits to "unsex" her and to take away her womanhood. Lady Macbeth also asks these spirits to "Stop up th"access and passage to remorse" so that she herself can become cruel ... and will be able to go through the task of aiding Macbeth in murdering Duncan. Although Macbeth was still hesitant about killing Duncan, Lady Macbeth insists on him doing so. Here, she is driven by her own ambition while she formulates the plan...

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... " - they have what they want but are not enjoying it. I think that after Lady Macbeth's decision in scene 5 of Act 1, Macbeth had his own choice to make. He decided to listen and to follow Lady Macbeth's instructions, even though he needed further encouraging. I believe that agreeing with Lady Macbeth was not his only choice. Macbeth is an impressionable man, as can be judged by his first reaction to ... in an ambitious world where power and respect are much wanted. After the witches reveal the possibility of receiving this, he is perhaps quite thankful that Lady Macbeth hatches a plan t...

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