... 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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... story of man, so desperate for the status of king, that he will do anything to achieve it. As an established "good and hardy soldier", and quite content within that role, Macbeth is surprised to find some witches who predict his reign as king. "All hail Macbeth! who shalt be king hereafter." (Act 1 scene 3) On informing his wife, Lady Macbeth, he soon embarks on a ... fact that even his wife, a woman, is not disheartened by his fears. However, this quote already shows a glimpse of Lady Macbeth's unstable mind. Such a horrendous description shows Lady Macbeth's desperateness for Macbeth...

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... how the power in the relationship is all in Lady Macbeth's court in the first act. In act two, after murdering Duncan, Macbeth says 'This is a sorry sight', but Lady Macbeth again shows her power over Macbeth. 'A foolish thing to say a sorry sight'. This shows how she is still cold hearted, as she thinks it is 'foolish' for a man to show remorse at a murder he committed. She ... be 'innocent' of the act, which echoes Lady Macbeth's 'innocent' flower quote earlier, showing how their roles have swapped and the relationship has flipped. We see now that Macbeth has the power over Lady Macbe...

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... in the play, and this is first shown when in the second scene of the first act, the Captain narrates the story of Macbeth and how he deals with the rebels of Scotland. He says of Macbeth, "For brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name- Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel." This shows us how ... loyal and brave Macbeth is at the beginning of the play. Although in the first scene, the witches show the presence of evil ... that although it is hard for characters in the play to tell the difference between good and bad, there is a presence of good, because the world of Macbeth in...

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... and he immediately begins to plan on killing him and this is an unsubtle clue to the audience that Macbeth is becoming more sinister and Malcolm will be killed soon in the future. Lady Macbeth is seen for the first time in scene five. She is found reading a letter from her husband telling her of the ... 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 different techniques to ...

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