Lady Macbeth

Lady Macbeth

Begining of the Play
1. Driving force of Macbeth's evil
2. Dominating
  1. Unnatural
    1. For Shakespeare's audience at the time
3. Holds the upper hand over Macbeth
  1. Pressure him
  2. Forcefull
  3. Shames Macbeth
4. Ruthless
Ambitious
1. Selfish
  1. Power and Status
2. Craves power
3. 'Thou wouldst be great thou art not without ambition' - LM
  1. Drives your actions
  2. Only ambition can make you great
  3. Things done her way
4. Lust
Guilt
1. Regret
  1. Madness
    1. Macbeth continues to sieze power and control
      1. Lady Macbeth - decends further into madness
    2. 'Out damned spot out I say' - LM
      1. 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
2. Concious
3. Contrast from start to end of play
Power
1. 'Give me the daggers' - LM
  1. She orders Macbeth
  2. Macbeth comits murder
    1. Lady Macbeth still in control
    2. Makes the plan
  3. An order
  4. Expresses Macbeth's incapability
    1. She has to take care of matters
      1. Her husband is too weak
Masculinity
1. 'Unsex me here' - LM
  1. 'Make thick my blood' - LM
    1. willing the spirits to change her
      1. 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
2. 'Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness' - LM
  1. not masculine enough
  2. Fears Macbeth wont be able to carry out the deeds neccessary to gain the power foretold
3. 'My keen knife see not the wound it makes' - LM
  1. Don't let herself look back at deeds
  2. 'keen knife' shows she wants to comit the murder
    1. Not suffer from the emotion after
  3. It is alsso said like an order
    1. Showing her control and power

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