[[http://example.com|External Link]] LOL ====== Lady Macbeth and her husband ====== Whenever I think of Lady Macbeth I always happen to think she seems stronger than Macbeth but then other ideas cross my mind. For example why does she not have the courage to kill Duncan? And at the same time she is so determined to make the grooms guilty that she goes into Duncan's room to put the daggers near them. In my opinion Lady Macbeth's behaviour is not so often contradictory because in most cases she behaves as if she were a really strong woman. As a matter of fact she does things most women would never do. For example she brings the bleeing daggers near the grooms in the room where the king has just been killed.[[http://www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/63052.html|External Link]] I think that Lady Macbeth is an ambiguous character. She has got two personality: one is strength and one is weak. Apparently she wants to appear courageous and strength but in reality she is afraid of violence and she is sensible and weak.:-\ For example when she convinces Macbeth to kill the king I can notes the sensibility of a weak woman even if she wants to seem a very determined person.[[http://fourthyear.wordpress.com/macbeth-characters/|External Link]] In my opinion Lady Macbeth has got a sort of mask that hides her weakness. She is not very courageous like she seems. :-\ For example when she becomes mad we can find some elements that give us the idea of her sense of guilt and thus her hiden sensitivity. [[http://www.answers.com/topic/lady-macbeth-shakespeare]] Lady Macbeth is the most important and interesting character of this play. She is the one who plots Duncan’s murder, she helps her husband to kill the king by infusing courage into him. In fact he is quite weak and easily frightened while lady Macbeth is strong, ruthless and very ambitious . She constantly pushes him into committing murder and, to obtain what she wants, she plays with his weaknesses compelling him to prove himself. On the whole we can say that Macbeth is a toy in the hand of lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is able to manipulate her husband, she doesn’t hesitate to refuse all his objections and, in order to reach her aim, she repeatedly questions his manhood. Duncan’s murder has nearly driven Macbeth mad and so it is lady Macbeth who steadies her husband’s nerves after the crime. She is a very determined woman who is considered much more ambitious and cruel than a man. However, after the crime, her never ending ambition leads her to madness. In fact in the last part of the play, lady Macbeth is reduced to a sleepwalker that wanders about the castle and is unable to cape with her own weakness. She hasn’t reached her aim and dies in a tragic way.In my opinion, lady Macbeth is the character who most draws the reader’s attention. At the beginning, in fact, she appears as a very determined woman and perhaps more cruel than her husband himself since she is the one who convinces him to kill king Duncan and to stain with his blood the grooms in order to accuse them of the crime . However she hasn’t got the courage to kill the king herself as he reminds her of her father . In the end the weigh of her remorse is so unbearable that it drives her to madness. So lady Macbeth, for some aspect , is a contradictory character, in theory, colder, more determined and cruel than her husband but, when it comes to facts, she isn’t courageous enough to kill, and so reach her aim. In Shakespeare opinion , lady Macbeth is maybe the personification of all those qualities that Macbeth lacks: lucidity, coldness and determination . According to the medieval vision of a human in the character of lady Macbeth the author describes exactly that tortuous, sly, and dubious aspect which doesn’t emerge in Macbeth but it is very important to carry out his bloody plans. I strongly agree with this statement "sometimes she behaves as if she were a man". To the purpose: a detailed analysis of the play "Macbeth" makes the reader understand the real nature of Lady Macbeth who changes as the play develops thus making her a round character. First of all it is worth considering the way the character comes to life. As regards characterization it's important to underline that Shakesperean doesn't provide the reader with detailed information about Lady Macbeth's outward appearance; as a consequence the reader can rely on all the context clues troughtout the play in order to assume what she looks like. All her words as well as actions, therefore, become pregnant for the reader to mentally have an idea of the woman. She turns out a cold, heartless and deceitful woman. In addition to this, she is also domineering and her strong feelings, determination and extreme passios make her a "wife" and a "mother" for her husband. As far as this consideration is concerned, personal research has been useful to me since Lady Macbeth's primary role has been put into real focus: it is stated that the woman's main role is that to give Macbeth "the vital push" and to "sustain" him. In order to control Macbeth's actions and to get power she uses a particular technique to ensure that Macbeh "keeps to his purpose" such as accusing him to be a "coward"(Act I; Scene seven). To go deeper into the relation between Lady Macbeth and her husband it is relevant to say that Macbeth is totally driven:-x by the woman's ambition which leads him to accomplish cruel actions. A lot of lexical choices are related to the semantic field of blood, violence and death and all reinforce the idea of destruction. If you also consider that she plays a relevant role in the murder of Banquo, you can easily realise her true cruelty which makes her such an evil creature that it's difficult for the readers to sympathize with her.:-( As I said in the beginning, Lady Macbeth's nature changes and this transformation comes to surface cleary in Act V, Scene one. The woman seems to have lost determination and strenght. She doesn't seem part of the outside world and her reality is just represented by the past and all her evil actions. Shakespeare relies on the use of the language of sense perception to convey the idea of a woman's internal struggle and remorse for what she did in the past. Suffice to consider is the image of the spot (Act V; Line 12) and the smell of blood (" "; line 26) which bcom meaningful to give the idea of Lady Macbeth's obsession with the past and her punishment. In conclusion I can say that her ambition has caused her nothing but confusion and frustation and last but not least, DEATH.[[http://www.pathguy.com/macbeth.htm]] Maybe lady Macbeth represent something like an evil alter-ego of her husband she spur it to be more determinate more shoure and evil:-(.
Starting from the three witches’ revelation she moves like a bad conscience [[http://ss06.rccg.org/site/lesson%2014.htm|External Link]] transforming Macbeth from a good figure to an evil one.
On my opinion lady Macbeth seems like a director who order staying outside of the scene; she order to his husband to commit the murders but she never kill anybody: she does not able to kill Duncan,but she also don’t kill Banquo eaven if it would be easier to her kill him!:-/
She actually accuses Macbeth to be “infirm of purpose” when he shows fear just after Duncan’s murder!
When Macbeth becomes a strong and evil character her role ends and she dead! Lady Macbeth is one of the most important characters of the play. Maybe she is more important than Macbeth in scenes where Duncan is killed: she manipulates her husband. In my opinion she is a very intelligent character beacause she notices Macbeth's weakness. However I note her full humanity in her contradictions: she seems courageous, determined and strong but indeed she is afraid in front of the murder.LOL As a matter of fact she won’t kill Duncan because he remembers her father: therefore she is also weak and sensible. After the king’s murder Lady Macbeth will be mad for the sense of guilt (we can understand it because she looks her hands dirty of blood that she can’t clean up).
In some scenes Lady Macbeth seems to be the most important character of the play.She is strong and determinated. She influences his husband and she is the only character able to calm Macbeth's insecure personality. But she has also a heart deep inside her. In fact she isn't able to kill Duncan because he reminded her of her father.[[http://www.antiessays.com/free-essays/1680.html]] Lady Macbeth and her husband can be seen as the same person: in fact in Macbeth we can identify the half person who does the deeds while his wife is the mind of them. This fact is also underlined by the lack of a true name for Macbeth's wife, simply called "Lady Macbeth", as if she were part of him (but this could be dued to the way of thinking in Shakespeare's time, in fact women were considered as if they were owned by a man, that could be her father or her husband).
In my opinion (8-o) the most interesting thing is that Macbeth is not (as you may think) stronger than his wife (that reveals a determination, a firmness, a courage that most people would attribue to a man, especially in the virtual and stereotyped world of a play), but much weaker and scared of what he does. Now you may say: why do you say that Macbeth is weaker than Lady Macbeth? After all he did kill Duncan, his wife didn't. Well, I said that because I think that Lady Macbeth would have killed Duncan herself if he hadn't reminded her her father: she wasn't afraid of killing someone. In fact, when Macbeth doesn't want to bring the daggers back near the grooms, she takes them because she knows the importance of that to accomplish her plan. This demonstrates that she is able to forget her fear for her interests and Macbeth isn't, and this feature of hers is useful when she has to <> Macbeth's courage. I don’t agree with the negative connotation of Lady Macbeth. I think everybody has forgotten that, first of all, she is a human being. She is bond to her husband by a strong love and she knows every Macbeth’s close desires. Her ambitions are for him and she places herself in a secondary position in their relationship. She supports her husband in every deed from Duncan’s murder to her death. Even if Lady Macbeth seems very hard on Macbeth, as you can see in sentences like “infirm of purpose”, she wants only to make him brave. Lady Macbeth seems to have a double personality, one strong and authoritarian as you can see in Act II, Scene Two, another sensitive and kind. The second one is hidden; it is revealed when she says that she can not kill Duncan because he recalls her her father. But is this one which, in the end, prevails and the sense of guilt makes her mad. In my opinion Lady Macbeth does not deserve her fame of **fiend-like Queen**: she has never killed. I admire her character because in the Middle Ages women were considered inferior to men. They could only stay at home and be responsible for the management of servants. Lady Macbeth tries to asserts her personality in the only way it was allowed her:-x: through her husband. [[http://www.rsc.org.uk/exploringshakespeare/mcharacterrelationships/ladymacbethsstrengths.htm]] I agree that lady Macbeth is a very strong woman. In my opinion she is very repressed by Middle Ages' society: she push her husband to do what she cannot do because she is a woman. As a matter of fact her personality fill the lacks in Macbeth one: he find the strenght to the murderers thanks to his wife. I think that lady Macbeth is a very strong woman. She seems to be a man, not a woman. She is too hard in front of Macbeth. she desire Macbeth's power more than his husband. She would to make his husband strong and brave in front of life and she supports him from the start to her death.When she dead he was afraid because the director of his existence was his wife. he has fear of life's course. I don't like very much Lady Macbeth because she was obsessed by the power. I appreciated that Lady Macbeth is very strong to be a woman and she seems to be more brave than his husband and the other women in Middle Ages. :-( :-( FIXME :-( =) FIXME LOL :-X :!: