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Title: Lady Macbeth characterisation
Description: Notes of the character of Lady Macbeth of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'
Description: Notes of the character of Lady Macbeth of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'
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Lady Macbeth
At the beginning of the play Lady Macbeth seems to have a very strong character
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The image of 'pouring spirits into thine ear' hints at a link with the supernatural and the witches
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Here she prays
to the powers of darkness to take away her natural femininity and fill her instead with bitterness,
cruelty and wickedness
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Lady Macbeth is a great deceiver
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This power is
shown even when talking to her own husband, for ex
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She prods his
weaknesses by accusing him of being a coward using very powerful and violent speech
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She is ruthless and
determined to not let the chance to make her husband King slip away
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Lady Macbeth's persuasiveness crumbles Macbeth's resolve, and the King will now be
murdered
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She seems evil, cruel, ruthless
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We see a more sensitive side of her where she says she cannot do the murder herself
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This is the first sign of her
conscience and feeling of guilt
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Once Macbeth has done the murder and came back to her, Lady Macbeth takes charge of
herself and clears up after her husband
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For her ' a little water clears us of this deed' and chastises Macbeth for his cowardice
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In Act 2, scene Lady Macbeth seems anxious and very uneasy, also because Macbeth is
keeping himself to himself
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Perhaps she is not a monster
after all
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When Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost (something only he can see), Lady Macbeth again takes
charge of the situation by covering for Macbeth and trying to probe him to come back to the
feast by quietly accusing her husband of being a coward
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In contrast to the strength of character and dominance over her husband Lady Macbeth has
shown, most of the time , till now, in the last act we see that she sleepwalks, she's afraid of the
dark
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We see the
deterioration of her mental state
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She eventually takes her own life, a sign of disorder, going against the natural order of things
Title: Lady Macbeth characterisation
Description: Notes of the character of Lady Macbeth of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'
Description: Notes of the character of Lady Macbeth of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'