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Study Of Lady Macbeth Essay Research Paper

Study Of Lady Macbeth Essay, Research Paper


Changes through the play ???? Lady Macbeth


is the wife of Macbeth who has just come from a battle and has just been named


Thane of Cawdor. The first time we see her in the play, she receives a letter


from Macbeth talking about three witches and what they said to him. It reads


that the witches have predicted that Macbeth will be the new king. Lady Macbeth


is already of how to get rid of Duncan who is the present king. ???? Lady Macbeth is told that King Duncan


will be coming to stay at their place. She is startled by the news and calls on


evil spirits to change her and lose her femininity. ?Come you spirits that tend


on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe


top-full of direst cruelty, make thick my blood? etc. She is saying to the evil


spirits give me murderous thoughts, make me have no sympathy for humanity at


all. ??? When King Duncan arrives at Macbeths?


house, Lady Macbeth has already thought of a plan to get rid of him. She treats


Duncan as if she is the perfect hostess and hides all her feelings better than


Macbeth. ??? Later, Macbeth has felt that he cannot go


through with it. Lady Macbeth who is very sly urges him to continue with the


murder. The words that Lady Macbeth gives him are very persuasive. She accuses


him of being a coward and makes him think he does not love her. ?Wouldst thou


have that which thou esteem?st the ornament of life, and live a coward in thine


own esteem?. ??? Lady Macbeth explains her plan to Macbeth.


He is impressed and carries on with the murder. He asks her ?If we should


fail?. She says, ?We fail?? as if it is inevitable that they should succeed.


She has control over Macbeth in this part of the play. ??? ?To alter favour ever is to fear?. Lady


Macbeth says this to Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is saying that if you change your


mind, you had better watch out! ??? In Act 2 Scene 2 Lady Macbeth has prepared


for the murder and waits for Macbeth. In the Beginning of Scene 2, she has


different moods. ?That which hath? made me bold?. She sounds bold and


courageous when she says that. The next line she says is ?What hath quench them


hath given me fire, Hark! Peace?, she is startled from outside noise. She


realises it is a bird shrieking. ?It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal


bellman, which gives the stern?st good night? she says as she is relieved. ??? When Macbeth has returned from the murder


and Lady Macbeth is worrying. Macbeth then tells his wife that he has done the


deed. ??? Around this part, iambic pentameter is


being used: ?Did not you speak?? ? When?? ? Now? ? As I decended??. The words


may not be in the same line but is spoken in a sort of rhythm. All the words


spoken are spoken in fear and many questions. Lady


Macbeth later says to Macbeth ? These deeds must not be thought, after these


ways, so, it will make us mad"? She is saying to him to sort himself out,


otherwise, he will just go mad. Later, she sees he has brought back the


daggers. Lady Macbeth realises that it was a bad idea to bring them back.


Macbeth refuses to take them back to the scene so; Lady Macbeth takes the daggers


and puts them back in the bedroom. She says ?Infirm of purpose?, Give me the


daggers?. She seems to have no fear about the situation, but there seems to be


some sort of nervousness in her. Macbeth?s wife returns with blood stains all


over her hands. She points out that they both have bloodstained hands by saying,


?My hands are of your colour, but I shame, to wear a heart so white?. She makes


Macbeth feel that they are both equal to blame for the murder of Duncan. Lady


Macbeth is trying to straighten out Macbeth although he is still quite fearful.


She also mentions ?Had he not resembled my father a

s he slept, I had done?t?.


She tries to make Macbeth feel reassured and that Macbeth can justify to what


he has done. ???? Lady Macbeth does not reappear until Act


2 Scene 3. In this scene Macduff is appalled by Duncan?s death Lady Macbeth is


told of Duncan?s death but says ?What, in our house??. She seems puzzled but


not at all shocked. She does not show feelings of what a natural woman would


do. After a while Macbeth has killed the guards assumed of killing the king.


Lady Macbeth has now fainted and is taken for treatment. She has maybe because


of Macbeth?s speech that he gives, so she faints to distract attention from


him. There could be something concerning her or worrying her. It could be real


after all that she has been through, and is affected by physical weakness. ??? Macbeth is now king, but Banquo suspects


him of foul play. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth invite Banquo to a formal banquet.


Macbeth and his queen are very concerned to make their first public entrance as


impressive as possible. In Act 3 Scene 2 Lady Macbeth deals with Macbeth?s mood


of depression. Macbeth believes that they have only ?scorched the snake, not


killed it?. He cannot stop thinking about the murder, but Lady Macbeth urges


her husband to put the past behind him. She does not know that Macbeth has a


plot to kill Banquo. Macbeth has calmed down towards the end of the scene. ???? Banquo has now been murdered but Fleance


escapes. At the banquet, Macbeth is told of Banquo?s murder. He also hears of


Fleance?s escape and is very unsatisfied. Macbeth turns his attention back to


the banquet. Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth ?My royal lord, you do not give the


cheer?. She is telling Macbeth to please his people as a good host should do. While


Macbeth is talking, he sees Banquo?s ghost in his seat. His reaction startles


his guests so; Lady Macbeth makes excuses for her husband. ?Sit, worthy


friends.? My lord is often thus, and hath been from his youth? are the words


that Lady Macbeth explains Macbeths? actions. The ghost disappears but reappears


again making Macbeth go insane. Banquo?s continues to haunt Macbeth, but


Macbeth insists his guests stay. Lady Macbeth urges the guests to leave. She


fears Macbeth will say too much. Lady Macbeth then tells everyone ?A kind good


night to all?. ???? After the banquet, Lady Macbeth is very


quiet. She seems tired and drained. Maybe it is because of tiredness or even


more than that. ???? By this time, Macbeth has seen the


witches again, to ask of his future. Lady Macduff has been killed with her son. ???? In Act 5 Scene 1, we see Lady Macbeth


again, but this time she has been through different moods. Lady Macbeth?s


waiting gentlewoman has called in a doctor to view Lady Macbeth?s actions in


her sleepwalking. She speaks of references concerning Duncan and Lady Macduff?s


deaths. Lady Macbeth refers to her hands that seem to have specks of blood by saying,


?Out damned spot, out I say!?. She seems haunted by what she has done. The


doctor tells the gentlewoman to call on a priest rather than a doctor and to


keep a close eye on Lady Macbeth. ???? Macbeth is now ready to fight a battle,


and hears of his wife?s? illness which cannot be explained. The doctor tells


Macbeth of his wife and says, ?Cure her of that? as if he is not concerned.


Since the murder the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth has


deteriorated and does not seem to be getting any better. ???? Macbeth has turned very confident. Seyton


brings him news that Lady Macbeth is dead. Macbeth feels drained and tells of


how she should have died older. To reflect on his wifes? life he says ?She


should have died hereafter, there would have been a time for such a word?. He


reflects upon her life, and does not hear of Lady Macbeth again. ?????


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