... 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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... Macbeths both retain horrible brutality. One would have to be an extremely mean and hard-hearted person to commit the acts of violence carried out in this play. For instance, Lady Macbeth plots the murder of Duncan and also contrives to set up Duncan's guards to take the fall. Beginning with chopping of Macdonwald's head in the opening war, to the slaughter ... th" edge o" th" sword his wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls." The above mentioned are just a few of the same manners that the Macbeths share. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are as different as they are alike. Macbeth appears t...

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... It is these actions that allow both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth to suffer severe consequences. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, the imagery of blood is employed to employed to emphasized both Macbeth's and Lady Macbeth's state of guilt. This is significant because it enables the reader to understand the ultimate downfall of both characters. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth guilt is apparent when Macbeth kills the king (Duncan), hallucinates over Banquo ... 's ghost and Lady Macbeth's inability to sleep. Blood represents guilt, as it is a significant form of imagery in the play. Blood also represents murde...

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... delivered by Caesarean section and then Malcom kills Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is morally guilty because she helps formulate the plan of killing Duncan, encourages Macbeth to kill him, as well as lies to cover the murder up. Lady Macbeth helps formulate the plan of killing Duncan. In Inverness, Macbeth's castle, Lady Macbeth reads herself a letter she has received from Macbeth. It says Macbeth's promotion to the Thane ship of Cawdor ... and facts about his meeting with the witches. Lady Macbeth fears Macbeth is not strong enough to kill King Duncan. She puts all her ... fears her husband m...

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... (Shakespeare 4.1. 105-106). Shakespeare often uses the Witches to soothe Macbeth's curiosity. In the end this curiosity corrupts his character. The influence of Macbeth's wife, Lady Macbeth, is also a key contributor that leads to his degeneration of character. At first Lady Macbeth strikes the reader as a lovable person. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are deeply in love at the beginning of the play. "My ... dearest love" (Shakespeare 1.5. 63). When she first hears about the witches prophecies, her ambitions also ignite. Like her husband, Lady Macbeth has strong desires to become the leader of...

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... And though she does not openly exercise her power over him in public, in private she often uses humiliation and emotional bribery to manipulate Macbeth to execute her will. Lady Macbeth is not a typical woman of Shakespearean time in this play. In that time a woman would just be at home cooking, cleaning ... and looking after the children. They wouldn"t have an active role in public life. However Shakespeare has created Lady Macbeth as untraditional. She talks to Macbeth about his problems, insults him, doubts his honor and courage. A woman might have been badly beaten for saying somethi...

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... power into actions that will develop into consequences, that ultimately have an effect on her perception by others and her feelings. In Macbeth, Shakespeare uses the character of Lady Macbeth to portray that any action will have a consequence. In the text Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is consumed by the characteristics of being fearless, dauntless, and having evil intentions to use for her own benefits. While conversing with ... , "This night's great business into my dispatch,/ Which shall to all our nights and days come/ Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom." (1:5:70-73) These lines demonst...

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... be non-intelligent, and the men mostly ruled over women and had all the power. Although in the play "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare, it was a different story for Lady Macbeth. She (who was married to Macbeth) had much control and power over her husband, because she was good at manipulating him to get what she ... wanted. This was a deadly situation, because she was mentally unstable. First, in the beginning of the play Lady Macbeth heard that Macbeth must kill the king in order to take his place. After she heard of this news she instantly thought about becoming queen and all the ... kne...

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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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... things to their fellow workers to get them in trouble so they could get higher on the latter at work. The characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in the play did everything wrong by believing the witches prophecies and becoming greedy to advance in life by killing Duncan themselves. So, which ... was more ruthless Macbeth or Lady Macbeth? In act I, Macbeth's tragic flaw is having too much ambition. He has indecision about killing King Duncan because he says that he is his kin, ... aftermath of King Duncan's death will cause the people to go crazy and riots will break out. But Lady Macbeth...

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... has used several women with powerful roles in his plays. He gives them the power to move the plot along. The witches and Lady Macbeth hold this power. These female characters call into question what it means to be a man. Lady Macbeth cries out, "Come, you spirits That tend on moral thoughts unsex me here,And fill me from the crown to the ... guests. It is after this that she too begins her downfall from sanity. In act 5, the gentlewoman and doctor are observing Lady Macbeth while she sleeps. The gentlewoman claims she sleepwalks every night, and she says something she will not repeat. W...

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... th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under't. He that's coming Must be provided for " Lady Macbeth is telling Macbeth that the day where he will be king will never come; Lady Macbeth is explaining to Macbeth that he shouldn't wait to be king, but that he must take care of this matter as soon ... without hesitation, using the metaphor of looking like an innocent flower, but being the serpent hiding underneath It. On another occasion Macbeth attempts to talk Lady Macbeth, and himself, out of killing Duncan, and Lady Macbeth replies, "I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love ...

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... knows that he wouldn't without a bit of encouragement. She says, "The illness should attend it: what thou woulds't highly." So, in a way, Lady Macbeth somewhat brainwashes her husband into killing the king by subtly taunting his masculinity, like when she says, "what beast was't then, That made you break this ... no one will find out. "A little water clears us of this deed. How easy is it then!" she declares. Later on in the play, Lady Macbeth does end up turning quite mad. She can't stop washing her hands because she seems to see blood on them all the time, which ends up ... Wash your ...

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... corrupt and turns his back on friends and loved ones as he becomes obsessed with the witches prophecy. An important relationship is the one between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. At the start of the play, Macbeth cares deeply for Lady Macbeth. He calls her things like his "dearest partner of greatness" (Act I; v line ii). He sees her as his equal partner. At the start of the ... herself ("Infirm of purpose! / Give me the daggers" Act II; ii line 52-53). The relationship then changes so that it is more like the relationship between mother and child. Lady Macbeth gives Macbeth instructions lik...

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... which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw and a moral weakness. William Shakespeare's Macbeth is an example of such work. In this drama we discover that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are, in fact, tragic characters in that they suffer to a greater extent than their misdeeds and their ultimate come to ruin and complete destruction ... and states: "and live a coward in thine own esteem"(1.7, line 47). After the assassination of Duncan is complete, Lady Macbeth acquires the highest position for a woman, Queen of Scotland....

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... Duncan and keeps the throne for himself It appears that in the beginning of the play that Lady Macbeth is the one who's wearing the pants in the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. She suggest that in the beginning that Macbeth must kill King Duncan before he leaves Macbeth's castle. She also calls for the spirt to come and "unsex her" or in other ... words, she wants her femininity taken away from her, so she can play a part in the murderous scene. However, Macbeth is very hesitant about murdering the king, whereas Lady Macbeth demands it. Lady Macbeth is the one who makes a...

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... is equally as ambitious as her husband but is unable to take action herself, perhaps because of the social constrains at the time(Howard 84).Lady Macbeth is the "spur" in the relationship, her values and morals change drastically through out the play, Shakespeare reveals different stages of her ... ;. Showing one of her facets, a decisive, strong and sinister character, but in the final two acts of the play, this character changes drastically, Lady Macbeth emits the guilt and the remorse of a woman haunt by her own actions which had been based on greed and without any morals, just driven ...

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... is someone and something else, other than the witches that motivates him. Lady Macbeth and ambition, are both the other causes that lead Macbeth to change his plans. When Lady Macbeth finds out about the witches prophecy for Macbeth, she gets herself prepared to convince Macbeth. "Come you spirits that tend on the mortal thoughts, unsex me ... here and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty. Make my blood thick"" (Shakespeare 32). Lady Macbeth is willing to do anything to be the queen. Lady Macbeth's ambition will be strong enough to make her husband do the "deed "....

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... is used most often to hide the appearance of guilt. Here, the theme of reality versus appearance is reinforced because of the fact that both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are constantly hoping for the darkness of the night to come so that they do not have to fight against the reality of their guilt. ... to committing murder, something he is not able to do. Towards the end of the play, however, the reader realizes that Lady Macbeth is no longer able to keep up her false facades and that she is no longer able to live with her guilty conscience during her famous ... Shakespeare's tragedies, se...

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... with Duncan's son Malcolm in England. The play climaxes with the suicide of Lady Macbeth, and the dethronement and murder of Macbeth by Macduff. Malcolm then becomes new King of Scotland. We first come across Lady Macbeth as she is reading a letter from Macbeth. In this scene, she demonstrates that she knows her husband well. She shows ... great," and also shows her great ambition "to catch the nearest way". The scene shows that Lady Macbeth contains a great ambitious desire, which will be of benefit to her husband in his quest to become King of Scotland. Lady Macbeth shows also a great ...

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... in the story that slowly turn evil as time goes by, they are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Their greed slowly takes over there bodies after Macbeth has a conversation with three witches which tell Macbeth that they see him as a king in the near future. Of course Macbeth gets anxious and wants this to come true so he seizes the chance ... VII, 81-82) This quote shows that they had to act as if nothing was going to happen and had to treat him as a guest of highest honor. Lady Macbeth showed her greed by wanting to treat his as they will but as soon as he goes to sleep they would kill " and dash...

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... the others is very strong, she makes herself seem so innocent but under the skin she as evil as a human being can be. During the party while Macbeth hallucinates of Banquo's ghost and panics, Lady Macbeth immediately attempts to cover it up by urging the guests that it is only "a thing of custom" (III.iv.120) and only to "[spoil] the pleasure of ... trouble on numerous counts. She is so determined to keep things covered she is willing to lead everyone to thinking Macbeth is crazy. After all the murdering Lady Macbeth refers to Macbeth as her "royal lord" (III.iv.40). Although Macbeth ha...

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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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... Ophelia becomes completely crazy and without wanting drowns in a lake. Readers seem to identify themselves more with Ophelia as she is the misunderstood tragic character in "Hamlet", while Lady Macbeth some my say at one point that she is pure evil and readers wanted to see her demise. I believe readers feel that way because everything that happened to Ophelia was ... because of what everybody wanted from her, and she only knew that she loved Hamlet but her father did not approved. That's what caused her insanity. On the other hand Lady Macbeth death was in some way or another deserving...

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... of Macduff as he and Malcolm, Duncan's oldest son, try to gain the revenge on the pain and suffering Macbeth has caused everyone. Act five, scene one, is the scene where Lady Macbeth takes her own life because her guilt had taken over for what she has done, and she cannot forget the ... memories of her tragic acts. During Lady Macbeth's sleep walking scene she refers to the bloody murder of Duncan, the slaying of Macduff's wife and children, and Banquo's burial. "What ... 's done cannot be undone" is what She says as if she was speaking to her husband, Macbeth, about all the murders. Lad...

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