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Lady Macbeth
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English Mind Map on Lady Macbeth, created by issyapsmith on 30/05/2013.
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Lady Macbeth
Begining of the Play
Driving force of Macbeth's evil
Dominating
Unnatural
For Shakespeare's audience at the time
Holds the upper hand over Macbeth
Pressure him
Forcefull
Shames Macbeth
Ruthless
Ambitious
Selfish
Power and Status
Craves power
'Thou wouldst be great thou art not without ambition' - LM
Drives your actions
Only ambition can make you great
Things done her way
Lust
Guilt
Regret
Madness
Macbeth continues to sieze power and control
Lady Macbeth - decends further into madness
'Out damned spot out I say' - LM
Irony
Before she ordered and all obeyed - Now she orders the spot out and it stays
Reflects the murders that cannot be reverdsed
'A little water clears us of the deed' - LM
Now she is trying to wash her hands
Of the deeds and thee guilt
Its not working
Concious
Contrast from start to end of play
Power
'Give me the daggers' - LM
She orders Macbeth
Macbeth comits murder
Lady Macbeth still in control
Makes the plan
An order
Expresses Macbeth's incapability
She has to take care of matters
Her husband is too weak
Masculinity
'Unsex me here' - LM
'Make thick my blood' - LM
willing the spirits to change her
emotionally - typically masculine
opposed to unstable and naieve
Does not want to feel
Guilt and remorse
Prepare her for her actions
Harness her emotion and desire
As masculinity
To overpower
More of a warrior
'Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness' - LM
not masculine enough
Fears Macbeth wont be able to carry out the deeds neccessary to gain the power foretold
'My keen knife see not the wound it makes' - LM
Don't let herself look back at deeds
'keen knife' shows she wants to comit the murder
Not suffer from the emotion after
It is alsso said like an order
Showing her control and power
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