... her own country. A queen should be someone who is exceptionally responsible and should be a good representative of her country. The public saw Lady Macbeth as quite the opposite. Lady Macbeth was seen as cruel and devious, always up to no good. In fact no one really saw her as a queen at all - ... he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't." This is the first time in the entire play that we recognise the fact that Lady Macbeth actually does have some feelings of guilt and sorrow inside of her, the first time we realise that she is actually a human being with real ... there to ...

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... the "aids of spirits" (Act 1.5), to help her in her quest to the throne. Lady Macbeth has a very different reaction to Macbeth's. Lady Macbeth suffers none of her husband's uncertainty. She seems almost more bloodthirsty as we already know she is very persistent on Macbeth fulfilling the witches" first prophecy. Lady Macbeth requests that the, "spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here/and fill me ... of direst cruelty- (Act 1.5, 40-43). The supernatural world will aid her in the hardening of her heart and make it possible for her to carry out her spiteful plan. Lady Macbeth wi...

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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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... doomed by an insatiable desire that clouds their better judgment. Another technique the author uses to convey the theme is through motifs. [T] One example of a motif is sleeplessness. [S] Both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth experience sleeplessness. Towards the end of the play, Lady Macbeth falls into a sleepless state, and this sleeplessness represents her guilt for her role in Duncan's death, as well as all the murders ... usually possess the ability to sleep. But when consciences are full of guilt, people experience a state of sleeplessness. In Macbeth, Shakespeare uses the sleep and sleep...

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... power than her husband. She felt that she could do a better job of being king and murdering the present one. Lady Macbeth had the power that Macbeth needed. The plan of the murder was all in Lady Macbeth's hands. She was the one who controlled it all. "Look like the time; bear welcome in you eye, Your ... desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem- (1, 7, 39-45). Lady Macbeth had every finger wrapped around Macbeth, making him at her beckoning call. She knew how to keep a short leash on her husband. However, her power...

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... outside. He doesn't realise the irony of what he is saying. There is an underlying theme throughout the play of good on the surface and evil underneath. Lady Macbeth uses this idea a lot, and tells Macbeth to- "Sleek o"er your rugged looks, Be bright and jovial among your guests" (Act 3 Scene 2 Lines 27 and 28) She is telling him to put on a false ... have made less of dent in his mind by switching off his feelings inside, making his emotions colder and harder so that nothing could make much of an impact. When Lady Macbeth dies, for instance, he "does not have time to mourn properly". T...

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... son, Ross even went to England to tell Macduff. Ross likes being the messenger and he does it throughout the play, even at the end when he tells Macbeth that Lady Macbeth has killed herself. Ross has ways in some scenes of how he tells people the bad news. If it's a friend of his he shows some kind ... set to murder people. Although she doesn't have a lot of scenes, and the ones she does have are short; they are key essentials to the play. Lady Macbeth knows that she needs to kill the King as soon as the messenger tells her that the King is coming. She says "come you spirits that tend to...

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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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... 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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... 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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... , by doing every thing/ Safe toward your love and honor. (1.4.2-29) Throughout the play Macbeth becomes more independent. Consequently, Lady Macbeth begins to show her true vulnerable nature. Lady Macbeth tries to persuade herself and Macbeth that she is a remorseless being without a single cell of guilt. Shakespeare's graphic and vulgar language for Lady Macbeth would have made the audience appalled and sickened. The ladies of the Elizabethan era ... in my face, Have plucks my nipple from his! boneless gums- (1.7.5-7). She continues to give gruesome detail on how she would have killed t...

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... because she is very ambitious and wants to become queen, is she to blame? Or is Macbeth the only one responsible for his own downfall. In this essay I will discuss whom I believe is most responsible for Macbeth's downfall. Lady Macbeth is a ruthless and ambitious character, she is not like the stereotypical image of a woman ... of what a stereotypical Shakespearian women should be. She says things like "unsex me know" because women had no power or influence in Shakespearian times. Lady Macbeth says she would have murdered king Duncan if "he"d not resembled my father as he slept," but she...

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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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... awake! / Shake off this clowny sleep, death's counterfeit and look on death itself!" (II, iii, 75-77). When planning to murder Banquo with Lady Macbeth, he shows that his conscience is taking over his sleep and he hopes when it is done it will all be over. Visions and hallucinations recur ... throughout the play and serve as reminders of both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's guilt for the growing body count. When he is about to kill Duncan, Macbeth sees a dagger floating in the air. Covered with blood and pointed toward the king's chamber, ... inhabit then, protest me the baby of a girl. Hen...

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... in the seventh scene of the first act after he has told himself all of the logical reasons that he should not kill the king. His wife, Lady Macbeth, cunningly convinces him in a speech targeted at his emotions, specifically those of pride, that in order to be a man and show his love for ... kill Duncan. This is a revelation in the play as it exposes his moral weakness. The problem that arises is that while Macbeth's argument is logical, Lady Macbeth's is illogical and emotionally charged. Macbeth, however, chooses to hear his wife's argument over his own, as that is the one that will all...

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... in two different lights, the first being that his rise to power and eventually his fall is the sole responsibility of the witches and his wife Lady Macbeth. The second being Macbeth is entirely at fault himself. Lady Macbeth along with the witches was written into the story to be portrayed as villains by the audience. Women at the time were inferior to men and ... him into a false sense of security and confuses him further. As time passes the audience sees that Lady Macbeth shouldn't be portrayed as the instigator of Macbeth's crimes. Lady Macbeth doesn't commit the murder of the King h...

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... deal of influence over men, using language and emotions to control their thoughts and actions. Lady Macbeth, wife to the protagonist in Shakespeare's Macbeth, manipulates her indecisive husband into slaying the Scottish king. Lady Macbeth is responsible for the death of Duncan, rather than her fickle husband. Within the play, Lady Macbeth is the driving force behind her husband's plotting, eventually pushing him to murder his beloved ... Duncan in his sleep, he is very fickle in making the decision, and would not have come to the same conclusion if it weren't for his wife, Lady Macbeth....

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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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Lady Macbeth's Guilt In Macbeth by William Shakespeare we meet Macbeth's wife, Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth was a very ambitious and determined woman who knew what she wanted. She was the biggest influence in the crimes that Macbeth committed. The witches appeared in the beginning of the play and told Macbeth and Banquo some prophecies. The prophecies were that Macbeth was to become Thane of Glaims, Thane of Cowdor, and king. They ... and tried to kill Banquo's son Fleance but Fleance escaped. He also sent hired killers to murder Lady Macduff and her child. After the murders and seeing their ...

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... other's decisions. They torment, lie, deceive, and play with people's minds just to get what they want. In Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, there are two outside forces that lead to Macbeth's downfall. They are; Lady Macbeth, Macbeth's wife, a deeply ambitious woman who lusts for power and position, and the three witches, who plot mischief on ... night for dinner, that he was named Thane of Cawdor, which the witches predicted, and that he would be the next king. After she reads it, Lady Macbeth gets all sorts of ideas in her head. She knows that her husband is ambitious, but that he is too f...

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... the witches have to tell him . They say that he will become Thane of Cawdor , Thane of Glams and King here after Once Lady Macbeth receives the letter all sorts of things start to flood into her mine and she starts to decipher what the witches are getting at. By ... banquet at their establishment she knows that killing Duncan is the only way of quickly removing him from the thrown, and ensuring the place for Macbeth and her self. Lady Macbeth somehow persuades Macbeth to kill Duncan even though he doesn't agree. She teases and torments him until he agrees. She does this by attacking his ...

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... Shakespeare's depiction of women in this play shows how manipulating they can become when they lack physical strength. Both the witches and Lady Macbeth played key roles in shaping Macbeth into a power hungry tyrant. But the blame for the murders cannot be places solely on one person for each one was guilty ... was so heartless that she planned on framing innocent men for the murder of the king showing her masculine thoughts in this woman's body. Lady Macbeth knew that her husband would talk himself out of the plan and so she manipulated him by questioning his manhood and calling him a...

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The average human goes through many changes in their lifetime. Not everyone, however, goes through such extreme life altering changes as the king's best general Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, in William Shakespeare's play. This concept is first evident in the first act of the play when the witches say, "Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through the ... has changed drastically from the start of the play. Another character that experiences moral transformations is Lady Macbeth. Her transformation differs from that of Macbeth's, however, because she starts out as being a generally evil...

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... can be seen to swap in a way. When the idea of killing Duncan comes into the minds of Macbeth and lady Macbeth, Macbeth is uncertain, he seems withdrawn about the whole idea. Lady Macbeth comes across as evil and bloodthirsty, for it is she who ensures that the murder takes place. Towards the end of the ... play though, although both characters show the immense guilt of what they have done, it is lady Macbeth who is now withdrawn, and Macbeth who comes across as evil, for the full spell of the witches has now taken effect, he does not believe that the Scots will ... these few reference...

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... thine ear; and chastise with the valour of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round, which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem to have thee crown'd withal." Lady Macbeth however realises Macbeth has more virtue than her, and understands she will have to persuade him to commit the crime in order to fulfil her dream. When ... many. He also knows Duncan thinks highly of him, and in the end decides not to commit the murder. However, Lady Macbeth sees Macbeth alone and goes to join him. Macbeth immediately tells her he has decided not to commit the terrible deed. Unfortunately, ...

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