... idea of being king and he would've never considered murdering the man he called king; however he still manages to question his motivations and is only pushed over the edge by his equally power hungry wife. Lady Macbeth acts as the facilitator of Macbeth's "vaulting ambition," she enables him to overcome his objections to murder for several reasons, by using ... ...

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... era but as the modern day look back on his questions have lost much of the affect. No longer has lady Macbeth's mean and abrupt characteristics got the same shocking edge it once did and as a result of this shakespeares warning on the flippant belief of traditional gender roles is lost. Macbeth's loss of manhood no longer occurs instead the reader ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate