... or is that she just wants to please her husband by giving him what he ultimately wants? There are many passages in the play to suggest that it was Lady Macbeth's own ambition to become queen. For example, why does she push Macbeth to murder Duncan when he realises that the only justification of the murder is his own ambition? When Lady ... of knowledge of his spouse, he is unable to prevent her from persuading him. Now that the murder is agreed to take place, Lady Macbeth makes sure everything is set up for the murder. On the surface it would appear that Macbeth was responsible for the ...

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... does may have thought of it, that there is too much "milk of kindness- in her husband for him to be able to go through with this act of treachery. This shows that Lady Macbeth is perhaps more perceptive than her husband, and thinks her plans through very carefully, and maybe even deviously ... completely evil. Surely, if she can love someone like she loves her husband for a large part of the play, and now we learn she loves her father, she cannot be the embodiment of evil. In act two, scene three, Lady Macbeth's actions are greatly disputed. When she is told, along with the other ... war...

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... , stop up th" access and passage to remorse. She does this because she is not capable of the evil and disregard required to act upon her plans as she is. This speech could be seen as Lady Macbeth trying to think herself evil, she resents the tenderness that her sex forces upon her. She is going against her better nature and intuition ... . This has made her capable of deceit for she is gracious towards Duncan by saying to him; "All or service, In every point twice done, and then done double, Where poor, and single, and single business, to contend ... against her feminine nature through t...

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