Comparison Of Lady Macbeth's Soliloquy

 I do not need to remind you of the great scenes preceding the murder, in which Macbeth and his Lady pull themselves together for their desperate effort. If you think over these scenes, you will notice that the Macbeths understand the action which begins here as a competition and a stunt, against reason and against nature. Lady Macbeth fears her husband's human nature, as well as her own female nature, and therefore she fears the light of reason and the common dayllight world. As for Macbeth, he knows from the first that he is engaged in an irrational stunt: "I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself / And falls on the

How does the 1.7 Soliloquy deepen the audience’s understanding of Macbeth’s conflicted state of mind?

In the play Macbeth, ambition, strength, and insanity play major roles in how the characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth behave and react. Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth present all 3 of these behaviors at one time or another during the play. However, there behaviors progress in very different ways. While Macbeth gets stronger and more ambitious, Lady Macbeth does the opposite. She starts out strong and ambitious, but becomes weaker and more reserved.

Macbeth is one of the many plays written by William Shakespear. It is considered as one of his greatest works for it's ever engaging story, Macbeth is also the most filmed/preformed of all of Shakespears' plays .‘Macbeth’ is set to be in Scotland; revolving around the main character, Macbeth. Macbeth's ambition leads him to commit murder after murder ; in order to be King.He first murders the former king, Duncan, his friend Banquo and later the family of the nobleman, Macduff.

one should have to go through a moral dilemma. I feel as if I was

Lady Macbeth is the wife to a brave and valiant soldier who is loved by many. To anyone looking into their marriage it seems perfect. They both love each other and are each others (quote about partner of greatness). Even though they love each other deeply, there is something missing. There are no babies crying, children playing in the yard, or first birthdays. There is no legacy for Lady Macbeth and her husband. Lady Macbeth fears thats she is not enough if she is not a mother and projects those fears about herself onto her

Along with ambition, guilt is another common theme seen throughout Macbeth.  Almost all of the main characters are seen to have some sort of guilt during the course of the play, but two stand out far beyond the rest.  That is Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.  Since they both were in on the conspiracy to kill King Duncan, they both share it as a heavy burden.  They both seem to handle it in different ways however.  Macbeth, being the one who has committed the actual murder or one of his close friends, is immediately shown to be full of regret as he states, "Wake Duncan with thy knocking. I would thou couldst"(2.2.75-76).  Macbeth shows for a short time that he would go back and "wake," or revive King Duncan if he had the chance.  We then see Macbeth start to become somewhat insane, being eaten away by the guilt of this murder.  As for Lady Macbeth, she is guilty for a multitude of reasons.  Along with Macbeth, Lady Macbeth does share the burden of killing King Duncan, but is also burdened by Macbeth 's growing reign of tyranny.  As seen throughout the last few acts, Lady Macbeth is being eaten away by her guilt, feeling that this is all her fault.  Right before the scene where Invernous, Macbeth 's castle, is stormed she her guilt drives her to end it all.  She commits suicide right before Macbeth 's rule comes to a tragic end.  I feel that Shakespeare has used the theme of

From the beginning, Lady Macbeth is seen as greedy and prepared to do what her husband will not in order to get what she believes they are destined for. She is more willing to get blood on her hands, even in the most literal sense, so Macbeth will become king and she be the queen of Scotland. To make sure the king's assassination will not trace back to Lady Macbeth and her husband, Lady Macbeth says to her husband, " Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead are only like pictures. It is the eye of childhood that's afraid of a painted devil. If he bleeds, I'll smear the faces of the grooms with it, because it must seem that they are guilty" (Act 2 Scene 2) Lady Macbeth's greediness led her to convince Macbeth to kill, and her to convict others of murder by spreading blood. The cycle of her greed leading to blood spilling, and leading to an increase in power throughout the play had terrible consequences for her mind though. After Macbeth

The relationship among Macbeth and Lady Macbeth alters throughout the play Macbeth as they both in turn take on the role of the more dominant character. Their attitude to each other constantly changes throughout the play, although events in the play certainly draw Macbeth and Lady Macbeth apart their love for one another is evident throughout the play. Macbeth shows his love by saying a few compassionate words in his letter to Lady Macbeth about the meeting with the three weird sisters. Lady Macbeth shows that she cares for him by planning the murder of King Duncan so Macbeth can become king. By the end of the play Macbeth doesn’t care about his wife’s health that much, when she dies his taught was she was bound to die one day.

Lady Macbeth is more power hungry and ambitious then Macbeth is. She, through ambition she gives the finial push to Macbeth to kill Duncan the king of Scotland. Her power however, is not driven by the sisters, hers is greed. She wants to be Queen, she wants the power of being Queen. Both Lady Macbeth and Macbeths ambition is tragic flaw. Her ambition drives her to her to go crazy which ultimately drives her to her death. There is an instance where she is sleep walking, eyes open. She goes to her vanity and sits down, she looks at her hands a sees blood. Then she sticks her hand in the water bowl and attempts to wash them. When she pulls them back out the blood did not wash away. Only she can see the blood her maid and doctor see this happening and they just think that she is going crazy. This is only the beginning of her insaneness. Just before her death she vilely reads a letter that Macbeth sent to her, telling her that he was to be King some how. It is her guilt that kills her.

Ultimately, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have polar opposite reactions to seeing innocent blood, dealing with guilt, and ridding themselves of the evidence from the crime. When comparing Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to religions Macbeth is like the Catholics who feel shame and guilt. Whereas Lady Macbeth is like the Atheists who can easily brush off tough situations without a guilty conscience. In every situation regarding the murder of King Duncan Macbeth acts like most people would, feeling panicked and awful about what they have done. Despite Macbeth, Lady Macbeth acts similar to how a serial murder would, feeling little shame and remorse. To conclude, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth act very differently when exposed to tough situations like murder.

In the play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare, soliloquy, aside and symbolism are used to manipulate the reader's response to the idea that power can corrupt.

In this Macbeth’s Banquo soliloquy he expresses that to be king means nothing unless his position as king is safe. In order to be safe he will have to do something that he has already done before.

The play ‘Macbeth’ uses soliloquies with great effect to express the thoughts of individual characters, particularly in the case of the protagonist, Macbeth. In Act V Scene V, strong words from Macbeth convey to the reader two themes of the play.  This soliloquy demonstrates the play's use of irony and the use of the disparity between the great opposition of light and darkness as symbols for both life and death.  This soliloquy is quite significant to the play as a whole since it demonstrates two very important themes as well as leading to a better understanding of Macbeth.

To understand Shakespeare’s tragic play, Macbeth it is necessary to fully comprehend the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. The differences between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are profound. Over the course of the play, Shakespeare skillfully changes the role of the two characters. Macbeth is frightened at the beginning then confident at the end while Lady Macbeth confident at the beginning and frightened at the end.