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Macbeth cruelty

            The Macbeth's Cruelty William Shakespeare's play Macbeth written in 1605-1606, is a brilliant and dramatic piece of art about how the Scots and Macbeth butchered the whole Danish army. People set high goals or purposes with significant meaning in Shakespeare's time. People back then set their goals by working very hard to get better or getting done what they set out to achieve. People did anything and everything to get a better job or get wealthier back then. Many people told lies to their employer to advance in their jobs. Also, others purposely did 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, Duncan is his guest, and the aftermath of King Duncan's death will cause the people to go crazy and riots will break out. But Lady Macbeth with such great visions of power and destruction persuades Macbeth to kill Duncan. Macbeth now decides when he has to kill King Duncan because Duncan has pronounced his son Malcolm to be next in line to be king. When Lady Macbeth finds out about the witches prophecies, she sees that her husband could be king if he kills Duncan. Once Macbeth finds out that the king wants to come to his house to eat and visit, he thinks he should somehow go about getting rid of Duncan. Lady Macbeth thinks that Macbeth is weak hearted and contains too much of "the milk of human kindness." She plans to take control of his emotions and actions to help him if he plans to kill Duncan. When King Duncan arrives, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth start planning a plot to kill him.


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1. Macbeth

The assessment, that Macbeth is a "dead butcher" and Lady Macbeth is his is "fiendlike queen", is right on the mark. ... Lady Macbeth is fiendlike because not only does she pray to be un-sexed, but she also prays to be filled "from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty." ... Also in that speech she is heard as saying "fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty! ... Lady Macbeth wishes she were more ruthless like a man because she wouldn't hesitate to kill like Macbeth. ... Lady Macbeth was like a fiend in her prayers to the spirits to make her crueler than M...

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2. MacBeth

"Macbeth" by William Shakespeare portrays a particularly insecure character, Lady Macbeth. ... These predictions arouse Macbeth's ambition which is then harnessed by his wife Lady Macbeth, who too has ambitions as great as Macbeth. ... Fill me with direst cruelty". These quotes show that her cruelty does not come naturally to her. ... Although the play portrayed that Lady Macbeth was all evil and cruelty, she was actually a very different person inside. ...

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3. Macbeth

It is Macbeth's greed that lends itself to Macbeth killing Duncan. ... She invocated evil powers, asking for a great favour, to fill her cruelty in order to aid Macbeth in his rise to greatness. "Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me, from the crown to the toe, top full of direst cruelty." ... Lady Macbeth spurs Macbeth into fulfilling the witches" prophecies. ... Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and the witches all had a role in the downfall of Macbeth, some greater than others. ...

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4. Changes in Lady Macbeth

Initially, she is presented as a dark, dire woman begging to be filled with spirits of "direst cruelty." ... Through these four scenes, a gradual change in Lady Macbeth occurs from malevolent cruelty to sorrow and despair. ... But, even though she seems to be cruel and ambitious from the start, she is innately good, as she calls upon "spirits" to "unsex" her now, unsex as in turn her into a man almost, as cruelty was linked with masculinity. ... However, when the time comes to murder Duncan, she admits that she would have murdered him rather than have Macbeth do it, if "had he not resembled...

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5. Macbeth

Lady Macbeth, wife to the protagonist in Shakespeare's Macbeth, manipulates her indecisive husband into slaying the Scottish king. ... Lady Macbeth attacks her husband's manhood, claiming he is too soft for the job. Unlike the typical woman, Lady Macbeth is cold hearted and cruel, putting her own prosperity before the moral integrity of Macbeth. Upon reading the letter sent by her husband, she fears that her husband lacks the ruthlessness to slay King Duncan, and calls upon the supernatural to "fill [her] from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty" (pg. 33). Lady Macbet...

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6. Lady Macbeth

Lady Macbeth is a controversial figure. ... Must she take some of Macbeth's guilt here? ... Does this also show that she has not been filled from top to toe with "direst cruelty"? ... Our last view of her is her delusion of nearness to Macbeth. ... In the end, perhaps, we feel guilty for her, but we may still remember what appeared to be hardness and cruelty. ...

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7. Macbeth: Analysis On Lady Macbeth

In Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is the main influence in Macbeth's life. ... "Unsex me and fill from the toe-top full of direst cruelty!" ... Once Lady Macbeth brainwashes Macbeth into murdering the king, she begins to plan the murder. ... Once the king arrives at Macbeth's castle, Lady Macbeth does what she told her husband to do. ... At the time when Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth that there is a change of plans, she uses a very smart tactic in trying to pursuade Macbeth. ...

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8. Lady Macbeth

Here in the banquet, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth is busy welcoming their guests. ... At that point, Banquo's Ghost appears and sits on Macbeth. ... At once, the ghost reappears and Macbeth starts scolding it. ... Lady Macbeth gets furious once more and in order to stop any kind of suspicion he asks the guests to leave telling them that Macbeth is not well. ... He also informs us the Macduff went to join the two sons in the preparation of the war against Macbeth's cruelty. ...

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9. Dark Imagery in Macbeth

Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty! ... ( II, v, 41-57) Lady Macbeth wants the spirits to replace all her nurturing, feminine qualities with remorseless cruelty, by changing her blood - slowing it down and making it cold. ... The witches themselves symbolize evil, corruption and cruelty. ... After Macbeth kills Duncan, he and Lady Macbeth have blood on their hands: Macbeth: "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? ... Therefore, Macbeth is a gloomy pl...

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