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Macbeth: Lady MacBeth - Paper

Macbeth: Lady MacBeth

Lady MacBeth is one of Shakespeare's greatest and most intriguing female
characters. She is evil, seductive, and witch-like all at the same time.
However, during the play we see her in two different ways. At the time when we
first meet her, she is a brutally violent, power wanting witch, and later on she
turns to a shameful suicidal grieving woman.

At the beginning of the MacBeth, Lady MacBeth is very savage and vicious.
She thinks nothing of killing King Duncan. She has no sense of what is wrong
and right, and believes that it is perfectly moral to do the deed of murder.
She states that to not go through with the deed would be horrible to yourself,
and that you would be a coward in ...

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were soon to commit.

Later on, after the murders, she, unlike MacBeth, still shows no signs
of a conscience. She is very cool and collected, while MacBeth hallucinates and
goes temporarily mad. Lady MacBeth on the other hand, takes everything calmly.
She takes the daggers back to the King's room, smears blood on the drunken
guards, and attempts to destroy all evidence of MacBeth ever being there. She
knows what needs to be done and does it without any hesitation or fear.

However, it is later on in the story, that it is revealed to us that
Lady MacBeth's conscience is strong. When sleep walking one night, Lady MacBeth
(seemingly somewhat insane) begins blabbering about spots of blood on her hands.

"Out damned spot! out, I say! One; two: why, then 'tis time
to do't Hell is murky! Fie, my lord - fie! a soldier and
afeard?"

When at first she believes that "a little water clears us of this deed", and now
she can smell the blood on her hands still, ...

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Added: 11/11/2007 08:13:44 AM
Category: Arts
Type: Free Paper
Words: 599
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