Character Analysis of Lady Macbeth

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    Bad Decisions In Macbeth

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    tragic play Macbeth written in 1606 by William Shakespeare, Macbeth is a great warrior of scotland and he make some very bad decisions and he kills lots of people, and in the end he dies. In the story there are 3 witches known as the weird sisters. And Macbeth goes to them to see if they can help him, they tell him many prophecies and things he could do, to get what he wants. “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis! All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of cawdor! All hail, Macbeth,…

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    Acts of betrayal can cause individuals to become burdened with guilt for the rest of their lives. In the play Macbeth, Macbeth expresses the feeling of guilt he bore since he had killed his king, Duncan: Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep"-the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast,-…

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    Dear my beloved Macbeth, I can barely write as sinful tears haze my eyes and blur my vision. Oh, my love of late I haven’t been well as I’ve being in an endless battle with voices in my head and my will to live is unhurriedly perishing. for too long this guilty has haunted me and I can’t bare this burden any longer, Before I depart this mortal realm, I wish to avow to the blood on my hands and the sins that I have committed. These wicked deeds have come to haunt me and all I see are theses…

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    the play Macbeth, Shakespeare says that your fate can be tampered with when you have to much power in life. Fate is a big part of the play because it is told in the story that you do not mess with the fate of yourself and others. Macbeth does differently and looks to take power instead of letting fate take its toll and have it come to him but taking the power makes him blind to see that he’s really setting himself up for failure later in the story. In act one, Shakespeare set up macbeth for…

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    The Lady Macbeth Effect The mechanisms of evil minds are different than those that dont feel or want to commit actions attributed to some of history's worst people. These people see the world differently, maybe as if life is a trap or as something to conquer, nevertheless they usually view the world and everyone in it as being against them, and these people will try everything in their power to gain some sense of control in whatever way they can. In Shakespeare's play “Macbeth”, the character…

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    from Lady Macbeth made Macbeth to do grody things. Lady Macbeth influenced Macbeth to do the most vicious. Lady Macbeth influenced Macbeth by pushing him to kill king Duncan. In Act 1, scene 7, Lady Macbeth tells to Macbeth, she can smash a baby if she had dares to do the deed in order to attain the throne. Lady Macbeth says, “ Even as the baby was smiling up at me, I would have plucked my nipple out of its mouth and smashed its brains out against a wall.” (Page 15). This quote shows that Lady…

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    In the play Macbeth, the person who is most responsible for all the death and destruction in the play is Lady Macbeth, Macbeth’s wife who committed suicide at the end of the play. Right after finding out about the witches second prophecy from Macbeth, she went a little overboard and she planned out the death of Duncan after asking the witches to give her a spell that would allow her to become as cruel as a man. Secondly, she was responsible for the death of herself, her husband, and the majority…

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    loud to characters themselves. This line from Lady Macbeth shows the viewers for the first time a look at her devious ambitions for her husband and her doubt in his ability to do what she believes needs to be done. She speaks that she fears the nature of his character is ‘too full’ of human kindness. This initial assumption is later solidified for the audience by her conniving and harsh tactics in her ways to convince a certain Macbeth to murder Duncan. This passage also reveals that Lady…

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    others argue that ambition leads to negative outcomes. In the tragedy Macbeth by William Shakespeare, and in Alvarez’s novel, In the Time of the Butterflies the characters of Macduff and Minerva show how having controlled ambition leads to great results. In the tragedy Macbeth the character Macduff shows controlled ambition will lead to positive outcomes. Macduff finds Malcolm at the English court and urges him to attack Macbeth at once. MAcduff speaks to Malcolm, “ Boundless intemperance In…

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    In the tragedy Macbeth by William Shakespeare, the phrase, “All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter!”is chanted by one of the three witches in Act 1, Scene 3. This prophecy serves as the launching point for Shakespeare’s exploration of the impact of fate versus free will in the lives of men. The author has one of the “weird sisters” to proclaim this prediction in order to set Macbeth in motion to try to master his fate, ultimately bringing himself to ruin. Specifically, Shakespeare…

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