... 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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... role of queen posses, and hints that all her actions were meaningless thereby implying remorseful feelings. Another crucial indication of her guilt is visible in Act Five, Scene 1 when Lady Macbeth is wondering around in a trance state appearing to be sleep walking. It is at this point in time where we indisputably learn of her deepest regrets and guilt. This is ... "Out, damned spot" (V, I, 32) suggesting that she is unable to wash the blood off her hands. These actions play a central role in the reinforcement of another theme: appearance versus reality (Lady Macbeth appears to be wide...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... 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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... Duncan, how delusional and crazy he becomes after the murder of the king and Banquo, and his reaction to Lady Macbeth's suicide. Sympathy is shown to Macbeth because of his unwilling actions to murder King Duncan. For example, Macbeth originally stopped his plan and said to Lady Macbeth, "We will proceed no further in this business:He hath honored me of late, and I have bought ... that because he has killed men, his blood will shed as well. This causes the audience to feel a slight amount of sympathy towards Macbeth because he has lost his mind and has hallucinated multiple times. At Act ...

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... play murders several people, these murders are motivated mainly by two things: Macbeth himself, who he is and what he implies, and Lady Macbeth, who manipulates Macbeth's weak personality to accomplish the assassinations. Macbeths excessive desire to obtain more than he could bear or/and deserve, takes ... Crawdor. A sense of power, and thirst of power, grew on Macbeth's head until these arose as his acts of treason and murder. On the other side Lady Macbeth is who encourages him to act this way, killing the king and Duncan. Macbeth is a person who would do everything in order to make hi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate