![]() ![]() This quote comes when Macbeth and Lady Macbeth meet after the murder of Duncan. She wishes for her actions to be concealed by the "dunnest smoke of hell" so as not to be punished in the afterlife, or by her God-given conscience. She realizes the unnaturalness of her actions, but remains too selfish and wicked to abandon the bid for power. She knows that she and her husband must kill Duncan in order to attain power and pleas for the strength to feel no remorse. This is the first appearance of Lady Macbeth in the play it shows her at the height of her ambitious strength. Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Come, thick night,Īnd pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, ![]() That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me hereĪnd fill me from the crown to the toe top-fullĪnd take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Her wicked characteristics remain hidden from all of the characters, except Macbeth.Ĭreated by Shannon McCool and Meghan Greenfield Women at the time were expected to do two things: bear children and take care of the home, certainly not plot the murder of king. The Weird Sisters play with fate and their unnaturalness is quite apparent, while Lady Macbeth's unnaturalness is only apparent by her lack of children. ![]() These characters are also seen as unnatural. Although they can make predictions, they have nothing of importance in the physical world and no obvious signs of success, showing their weakness without men. The Weird Sisters, who are incredibly independent, and not reliant on men, are portrayed as vagabonds. Lady Macbeth cannot attain power and success herself because she is a woman, so she must rely on her much weaker husband to gain power for the both of them. Lady Macbeth's character, along with the Weird Sisters, represents how strong women were seen in the time of Shakespeare. The guilt of her wicked deeds overwhelm her and she becomes the antithesis of the character she was in her first appearance. In her act of suicide she shows her weakness and inability to deal with her actions. There is another side to Lady Macbeth that stays hidden for most of the play and appears only at the end of her life. Interactions with her husband show her in the more masculine role by her quick and decisive action. After Macbeth has killed Duncan, but forgotten to strategically place the murder weapon, his wife fixes his foolish mistake. From her first appearance in the play her strength and yearning for prosperity are evident with her plea to be unsexed in order to follow through with murder. Lady Macbeth has accepted that in order to be Queen, Duncan must be murdered and does not let Macbeth weaken under the pressure. Lady Macbeth is portrayed as a strong, independent, and ambitious woman as well as wicked, selfish, and ironically weak. She leads Macbeth to murder Duncan in an attempt to make herself successful, expressing her truly wicked temperament. Her facade shows a remorseless woman, but inside she struggles with the guilt, which ultimately leads her to commit suicide. Her part in the play ends when she commits suicide. Macbeth is defeated by the weight of guilt and finds the only way to escape is death. ![]() In the later parts of the play, Lady Macbethīegins to sleep walk and experiences delirious visions, showing the first signs of her increasing weakness. However her downfall occurs after the death of Duncan as her guilt weighs too significantly on her conscience. Lady Macbeth is presented as impenetrable, Macbeth and repeatedly needs to convince him to have the strength to follow through with her plan of murder. Throughout the play Lady Macbeth constantly has the power in her relationship with Almost immediately after hearing the prophecy of Macbeth's assention to king she asks to be " unsexed" so she can act cruelĮnough to plan and follow through with the murder of King Duncan. She is reading Macbeth's letter about his encounter with the three Weird Sisters and his Wants, and as the play proves, this is a good representation. Lady Macbeth comes off as an ambitious woman who gets what she Lady Macbeth, the wife of protagonist Macbeth, enters the play in Act 1 scene 5. ![]()
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