... play progresses, their relationship changes and their roles are essentially switched. The relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth is a very important factor in Macbeth, because with out Lady Macbeth's strong influence on her husband, Macbeth would not have acted and made some of the decisions he did. Lady Macbeth plays a significant role in influencing Macbeth to choose the path that he does. She plays the dominant character throughout the ... In the beginning of the play she is introduced as a strong, dominant, controlling wife. Her weak insanity and uncontrolling condition is onl...

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... 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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... they once had. The couple has grown apart from each other, leaving Lady Macbeth without any ability to influence Macbeth as she once did. Therefore, diction reveals Macbeth's insecurity and resolve, as well as a weary Lady Macbeth. Likewise, Lady Macbeth's weariness and Macbeth's insecurity is brought out by rhetorical devices. First, Lady Macbeth says the following rhetorical statements: "Nought's had, all's spent" ... that it's better that she doesn't know about the deed until its done. Thus, syntax reveals Lady Macbeth's weariness and Macbeth's insecurity and resolve. Also, figura...

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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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... hither,/ That I may pour my spirits in thine ear,/And chastise with the valor of my tongue/ All that impedes thee from the golden round." Lady Macbeth's infamous unsex me speech shows how ambitious she is. She calls on spirits with murderous thoughts to make her less like a woman, and more like a ... ii) She then smears blood on the servants to make it look like they killed the king. Later on in Act II Scene iii, Lady Macbeth pretends to act shocked and sadden by the murder of the king when Macduff tells her about it. Then, when the thanes start to ... Banquo's buried. He/ cannot come o...

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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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... nature and become ruthlessly evil. She also appears to be a woman without any morals and is thoroughly determined that the witch's prophecies come true. When Lady Macbeth hears that Duncan, the king, will be coming to stay at the castle her ambition takes a sudden turn and her wickedness grows. She decides that ... you to Duncan"(III. IV 63). The ghost then disappears. Not long after things are beginning to return to normal, Lady Macbeth again has to cover up for Macbeth. At this point Lady Macbeth loses all control of the situation and tells the guests to go. As soon as all the guests...

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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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... 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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... ability; manipulation, she strives to establish her place of power through the name of love, not knowing that desire can also lead to self destruction. Lady Macbeth has an important role in her husbands decisions. It is obvious that she has compassion and dearly loves and cares for her husband, but it is ... although he wants to become King by any means necessary, he just doesn't have the will it takes to get there by himself. It is Lady Macbeth that sees his weakness and uses that against him. Words are the most powerful weapon one can use against another. Her tongue is her weapon. ....

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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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... times that he needs to stop and think about the future ahead. The Weird Sisters were only there to plant the seeds of ambition and Lady Macbeth is the one who waters the ideas to make them become reality at her own risk. The devilish witches know how to play with people's emotions just for the sake ... in the play " Here's a knocking indeed! If a man were porter of hell-gate/ he should have old turning key " ( II.iii.1-2).The drunk porter compares Macbeth's castle to hell, which is ironic because only Macbeth and Lady Macbeth know about the darkness and sin of King Duncan's death so fa...

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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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... enough to deal with the guilt. This is seen through the fact that he wants to back out of killing King Duncan when he swore he would. In Act 1, scene 7, Lady Macbeth says "If you weren't a man, then what kind of animal were you when you first told me you wanted to do this? When you dared to do it, that ... says this, "Now I'm decided, and I will exert every muscle in my body to commit this crime" (Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 7, line 80). Lady Macbeth has an evil heart, she can be considered a charlatan. Lady Macbeth is a puppeteer, and Macbeth is the dummy. Her evil influences shaped Macbeth ...

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... man born not of woman will not harm him; 3) he shall be safe until Birnam Woods moves to Dunsinane Hill. These predictions make Macbeth feel assured he will be successful. Macbeth's home in Scotland is heading for downfall. Lady Macbeth has gone mad, and his people are turning against him. At this point, only his confidence in the witches" predictions and his pride in ... himself keep him going (Research and Learn 4). The influence of Macbeth's wife, Lady Macbeth, also contributes to his degeneration of character. Lady Macbeth plays an important role in Macbeth's demise since she provid...

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... which they were before, fighting against obedience. They break out of their stalls and the conclusion is mankind has done evil. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are affected by the murder of Duncan. In the beginning of Act 3 Scene 2, Macbeth is very confident in the beginning but Lady Macbeth doesn't think that he is. She is scared of leaving him alone because he could jeopardise their plans ... is in his grave, After life's fistful fever he sleeps well, Treason had done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further" Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth t...

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... to hide herself, but she carried a candle so she contradicted herself. The line, "She has light by her continually; "tis her command.", symbolizes Lady Macbeth's fear of darkness and or evil. The image of blood also plays an important role in the play. From the first appearance of the bloody Sargent ... this continual vision of blood all through the play. This imagery of blood seems to affect just about every character in the play. It affects Lady Macbeth in the scene in which she is found sleepwalking and talking to herself after the murders of both Duncan and Banquo. "Here's the smell ...

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... seen me with these hangman's hands" (II.ii.26-27). The guests can declare him guilty because they have seen his murderous hands. Lady Macbeth is also aware of the way that bloody hands could betray them. She orders Macbeth to clear himself of all apparent guilt when she says, "Go get some water,/ And wash away this filthy witness from your hand ... .43-44). Without proof, one can't be given the blame for an action, so again "hands" are representing culpability in that by wiping them clean, Macbeth is also wiping the guilt of Duncan's murder from himself. Lady Macbeth knows that her husba...

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... of blood and animals play a prominent role in establishing the moral atmosphere. In Lady Macbeth's statements to Macbeth before the murder of Duncan, an animal image helps to convey moral atmosphere. Lady Macbeth says to her husband, " look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under't". (1.5 65-66) Lady Macbeth is telling Macbeth that to escape suspicion he needs to act innocent, while acting like the devilish ... fiend to accomplish his murderous goals. The serpent has often been used as a representation of evil or a representative of the devil. Thus, although Lady Macbeth is...

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... place either at night or in some Dark Spot"(Bradley, 214), such as "the vision of the dagger, the murder of Duncan, the murder of Banquo, and the sleepwalking of Lady Macbeth"(Bradley, 214). The darkness symbolizes many things. First, it stands for the death and evil in the play. "Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep ... peace or safe, but now his ambition has left him with a painful vision of his dead friend. Blood represents a lot of guilt for Lady Macbeth, as well. As lady Macbeth smears the blood on the groomsmen, William Magunn describes it; " His lady imbrue...

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