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Lady Macbeth - College Papers

Lady Macbeth

Discuss whether or not you feel sympathy for
There are certain aspects of ’s character that suggests she is good and therefore her downfall increases my sympathy for her by the end of act 5. But I would also argue that she entailed evil to fuel her sleeping ambition that would make her nemesis, her mental collapse, fully justified.
’s role as a supporting wife at the start of the play exceeds the duties of a ‘normal’ wife. She is the ‘Eve’ to Macbeth’s ‘Adam’ and is tempted. Although Macbeth hints at the idea of taking the crown in his letter home, it is ’s ruthless determination to make him king that persuaded him to murder Duncan. Did she do this in the interests of Macbeth or was it to ...

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in my opinion, makes her a monster. This is illustrated by her willingness to “…dash the brains out…” of her baby, if she had one. The loss of her feminine qualities exemplifies her knowledge of the consequences of killing Duncan, this is demonstrated when she asks the “…keen knife see not the wound it makes…”. This reveals her hope that she will not feel any guilt after the murder and she naively believes that “…a little water clears us of this deed…”; these examples show that knew the deeds she was going to commit were evil and therefore sustains my unsympathetic feelings for her.
Although I have expressed unsympathetic views about , I do feel that a certain amount of sympathy arises from Act 5 Scene 1, which tends to hide her previous evil deeds. has not been seen by the audience for some time, this is because Macbeth has shut her out of his life and she has become isolated and lonely. ’s mental collapse is caused by her acknowledgement of her share of guilt and is expressed ...

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Added: 3/9/2006 02:08:07 PM
Category: English
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