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Lady Macbeth Character

Submitted by chandler on November 12, 2006

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‘I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the dignity of the whole body’ (5.1.45). Do you agree that we can both pity and condemn Lady Macbeth?

Lady Macbeth’s character in the play ‘Macbeth’ has a view, which we can either pity her or condemn her. My view of Lady Macbeth is that she is only a woman and we must pity her. And also throughout the play she helps her husband and her relationship doesn’t even go well. She loves her husband but at the same time very ambitious, as shown by her immediate determination for Macbeth to be king. Lady Macbeth knows her husband well. She thinks he may be too kind in order to murder King Duncan. This is why she represses her conscience so she can later push Macbeth into committing the murder. Which is why we must condemn her. We must also condemn her as she has a part in the death of Duncan. She immediately concludes that \"the fastest way\" for Macbeth to become king is by murdering King Duncan. Although Lady Macbeth doesn’t kill Duncan as he looks like her father. This means that she hasn’t received what she had asked for with the prayer to the witches, which was to ‘unsex’ her so she hasn’t got rid of her feminine qualities. Lady Macbeth also uses Euphemism as she has difficulty coping and facing reality for example she calls the murder of Duncan ‘the deed’. Lady Macbeth in the first Act is immediately connected to the witches as the scenes alternates, Witches, Battlefield, Witches, Battlefield and then Lady Macbeth so she is immediately connected to the supernatural. During the Murder of Duncan Lady Macbeth she forces Macbeth to kill Duncan as she insults his manhood. She also finishes the job of by making the guards look guilty of the murder. The big question here is how she can’t kill Duncan as he looks like her father but she can finish it of and takes a huge part in it; we must condemn her at this stage.
When Lady Macbeth faints as she sees the dead guards we are not sure if she faints as a...

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