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The tragedy of Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatized the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James 1,who was patron of Shakespeare's acting company, Macbeth most clearly reflects the playwrights relationship with his sovereign. It was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book, and is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy.
Lady Macbeth :
It is a popular reading of the play to see lady Macbeth as a main instigator of the action and bloodshed;a unique example of a female as such a plot device, Resultantly,it is common to hear proclamations of the play's progressiveness and Shakespeare's admirable feminist qualities. However,this king of interpretation is pretty far flung and misrepresentative of what female empowerment in literature really looks like
Not going to lie, lady Macbeth M's " Unsex me here" speech is one of the most kick-ass female soliloquies in all of Shakespeare's works. Her blatant disdain of typical female gender roles like childbearing and motherhood is pretty damn powerful,and the wicked,sangenuineous language of her speeches are brutally un- feminine. And at face value it would seem that lady Macbeth is indeed a sort of 0.5 wave feminist; icon, and Shakespeare was an Elizabethan " good guy". It is a nice sentiment, and unfortunately pretty unfounded.
It is not enough to substantiate Lady Macbeth's feminist status just by her initial characterization. Although she seems like a strong and unusually virile, bloodthirsty leading lady,the continuation and resolution of her plot- line undermines this opening image. By the time Duncan is dead, the plot is clearly in Macbeths hands, with lady M's influence growing smaller and smaller. She suffers the haunting guilt just as strongly as her husband, and infact seems more susceptible to the ensuing madness. By the beginning of act 5, our " strong independent Scottish woman" is a drooling wreck of hallucinations and madness. What we can infer from her emotional collapse is that she is infact being punished for daring to oppose her assigned gender roles.
Lady Macbeth: The Real Killer
There is one thing that all men must admit if they have ever associated with a female, they are extremely persuasine over men. Now, not all men may not go as far to kill another human being as Macbeth did just because a woman told them to,but there is no denying that they have some control over men. This can be extremely true when women start to attack a man's " manliness". This seemed to be one of lady Macbeth's biggest weapons. With lady Macbeth using her powers like this I do believe that she really killed her so she can't be worse, but men know what women can make do, especially by just simply hitting their weak spot and calling out their manhood she also changes quite a bit throughout the whole play. She does not stand by what she originally says, this make her even worse.
Throughout the whole play lady Macbeth only thinks about one person, and that's herself,all she cares about is becoming the Queen. She doesn't even care that to become the Queen, she has to make her husband kill the present King. She does not think about the consequences that can happen to her or to her husband.
When lady Macbeth first receives the letter from Macbeth that states his intentions of killing Duncan to become king ,she believes that he is to " good" to do it. She says he is....
"Too full of the milk of human kindness to
catch the nearest way."
She is saying that Macbeth does not have it in him to go through with what he wants to do. This is the first time she starts to question how much of a man he is. She puts off a face that makes her seem like she is more manly than what Macbeth is. By the end of this scene though she backs out of it and can't kill him.
The influence Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's Macbeth:
Lady Macbeth influences her husband to did the crime in order prophecy about Macbeth will be a king of Scotland became true. Finally, Lady Macbeth influences her husband to murder King Duncan. In the end, Macbeth cannot happy to all that He got. He fell guilt, unhappy and uncomfortable.
Manipulation of Lady Macbeth:
Lady Macbeth manipulates her husband with remarkable effectiveness, overriding all his objections; when he hesitates to murder, she repeatedly questions his manhood until he feels that he must commite murder to prove himself,
" When you durst do it, then you were a man;
And to be more than what you were, you would
Be so much more the man."
The Guilt of Lady Macbeth:
Lady Macbeth is guilty for persuading Macbeth to kill Duncan and acting as his accomplice. Lady Macbeth's guilt made her extremely self conscious because she thoughts that someone would find out. Eventually she got to killed herself to escape the guilt.
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