Lady Macbeth's Cruelty

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The play “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare is a story of how the mind can take over and cause people to act irrationally. “The Two Wolves” is a fable about how each person feeds the wolves that fight within them, the “good one” and the “bad one”, and through feeding it they ensure it is the strongest. The fable applies to “Macbeth” due to the fact that Lady Macbeth is psychotic therefore feeding the “bad wolf”. The first piece of evidence displaying Lady Macbeth’s insanity is when she stated, “unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full [sic] Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. Stop up the access and passage to remorse” (1: 5: 31-3). In the preceding quote, Lady Macbeth states she longs to be “manly”, as she believes it

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