The phone which Billy calls him on to leave a message before he is killed. A video message is sent most likely of Billy and fearing it may give him away Joe overreacts and jumps to take the phone from everyone. A key turning point is made here; Joe actually talks directly to Ella about their guilt and how she has been acting strangely. “Why won’t you look at me? You look at yourself in the mirror, but you won’t look at me? Am I worse than you? Am I?” This is dialogue and emotion not shown in the play between Lady and Macbeth and her husband. This emotional breaking point may even be what leads directly to Ella’s death. She has already been having issues with guilt and now Joe reminds her of what has been done. The scene adds more emotional background to Ella’s and ultimately Lady Macbeth’s suicide. Joe’s own breaking point takes longer to build up to. …show more content…
Her entrance scene is of her putting her make up on in the mirror. Red lipstick in particular. There is strength in her femininity, whereas before her suicide there is the same setup scene but Ella shakily and badly does her lipstick. She has lost her confidence and strength. She no longer can live with her actions. This degradation of her character comes with her slow change in costuming and makeup. As her confidence dwindles her outfits and makeup become sloppier. It shows how Lady Macbeth and Ella both draw from their roles as women and by the end they Ella has lost herself. Duncan’s murder is shown offscreen like the play but Ella’s suicide is not hidden away like Lady Macbeth’s. Alternatively, the film shows her take her life by jumping off a high ledge. This gives Ella as a character more power because her suffering is shown. It is more integrated into the story, rather than focusing more on Joe it is equally felt between the two of them. Their tragic ending conclusively matches the tragic ending of a noir
Similar themes are engaged by both Shakespeare and Brozel to suggest feelings in their particular audiences. Through the connection of Joe and Ella, Brozel investigates the dynamics of a relationship. Shakespeare uses Macbeth and lady Macbeth to show the role of a lady, showing a submissive companion, such companion was expected in the Elizabethan civilization, Ella and Lady Macbeth both have ambitions and both control their husbands, Ella uses a very similar quote “the milk of human kindness is now tainted” that of Lady Macbeth, the famous quote being “I fear thy nature, it is to full o’th’milk of human kindness” this quote indicates that she is questioning Macbeths masculinity. Ella uses her saying for the same reason; Ella does this in order to convince Joe to commit the murder. Lady M and Ella share some common objectives but Ella’s character is allowed to be more alike to Macbeth due to the time that it was set. In Shakespeare’s time women and men did not have equal rights, let alone allowed to perform on stage, whereas now day’s men and women are equal allowing Ella to be
Eventually she kills herself. The witches’ appearance led Lady Macbeth to her death. Lady Macbeth is also tricked by the appearance of herself. In the beginning she thinks that she should persuade Macbeth to kill Duncan. When Lady Macbeth finds out about the prophecies from the witches, she says:
Lady Macbeth progresses throughout the play from a seemingly savage and heartless creature to a very delicate and fragile woman. In the beginning of the play, she is very ambitious and hungry for power. She pushes Macbeth to kill Duncan in order to fulfill the witches’ prophecy. In Act I, Scene 6, she asks the gods to make her emotionally strong like a man in order to help her husband go through with the murder plot. She says, “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!” Also, she does everything in her power to convince Macbeth that he would be wrong not to kill Duncan. In Act I,
She was the character that finally convinced Macbeth to kill Duncan in his own castle, proclaiming “O, never shall sun that morrow see!” (1.6.71-72). She encouraged such betraying behavior as a reaction to Macbeth’s letter about being predicted as the next king of Scotland. Eager to become queen, Lady Macbeth completely disregarded the inner politics of Scotland, her and Macbeth’s morals, the sacred Great Chain of Being, and the Divine Right of Kings. She continues to violate the Chain as she reverses gender roles with Macbeth, verbally abusing him as only a man was allowed to do to a woman (so it was believed then). She consistently degrades Macbeth by calling him a woman, comparing his explanations to “a woman’s story at a winter’s fire, authorized by her grandma” (3.4.78-79). The common belief in 17th century England was that women were far below men on the social ranking scale, so Lady Macbeth’s numerous insults are completely out of line. Eventually she is punished for her interruption in the Great Chain of Being as she becomes insane from guilt. At last, the murder of Duncan comes back to haunt her, causing her to imagine blood on her hands and cry “Out, damned, spot, out, I say!” (5.1.37). In the end, all of her past actions catch up with her and she commits suicide as she wrestles with the burning question, “What, will these hands ne’er be clean?” (5.1.45). Shakespeare justly writes in her demise as she is
Furthermore, this scene is important in terms of plot development because it is the last appearance of Lady Macbeth in the whole play and also the most revealing and memorable. The whole plot of the play changes drastically once Lady Macbeth is no longer there to give strength and courage to her husband and to keep him stable. She was once a woman driven by her assertiveness, boldness, strength and ambition for her husband and later destroyed by guilt and corrupt power.
During the famed banquet scene, the Lady again saves Macbeth by covering up his fear of Banquo's ghost. However by this time, her ruthlessness has taken root in Macbeth and to the end of the play, her mental state deteriorates from clear-headed to death, hitting the intermediary stages of remorse, insanity and sleepwalking.
Macbeth is confused as he is arguing with himself on what he should do. He states reasons not to kill Duncan, because Macbeth is his noble kinsmen and the act would bring dishonor. However, he also states reason why he should kill him, because Macbeth will then become king and fulfill the witches ' fortune. Lady Macbeth, who appears in the beginning as the driving force for the murder of King Duncan, also develops internal conflict. At first, Lady Macbeth seems to be a woman of extreme confidence and will. But, as situations become more and more unstable in the play, guilt develops inside her. For instance, she exclaims; "Wash your hands. Put on your nightgown. / Look not so pale. I tell you again, Banquo 's / Burried; he cannot come out on 's grave" (Shakespeare V, ii, 65-67). Lady Macbeth sleepwalks and frets about her evil wrongdoings because she is extremely guilty of her influence on Macbeth to commit the murder. Lady Macbeth reacts emotionally and dwells on her actions as guilt eats at her soul.
However, Lady Macbeth’s conscious shines through as she is not able to kill a poor vulnerable man who looks like her father. She is thrown off guard be her reaction to Duncan’s face. She does not expect to feel any remorse toward the old man but she does. After Macbeth kills Duncan, Lady Macbeth regains her cruel nature and quickly takes the dagger from him to frame the guards, “Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead/ Are but as pictures. ‘Tis the eye of childhood/ That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, / I’ll gild the faces of the grooms withal, / For it must seem their guilt.”(68-72). Lady Macbeth shows no remorse or respect for the dead. Lady Macbeth cannot let her remorse control her because she knows that the only way to bring about the prophecy is to frame the guards. Lady Macbeth unsuccessfully attempts to block out the horrendous deeds she commits. The compassion Lady Macbeth shows for Duncan proves that the spirits did not remove her soul or kill her conscious, which will be her Achilles heel and lead to her death.
However, all of the deaths in Macbeth are because of murder or suicide, making them unnatural deaths. The very first death in the play is Macbeth killing Macdonwald in battle; making his death an unnatural death. In the lines, "Till he unseamed him from the nave to th' chops, / and fixed his head upon our battlements.” (Shakespeare 7 ln 22-23). Shakespeare shows the audience how Macbeth murders Macdonwald during battle. The second and main death of the play is when Macbeth and Lady Macbeth murder Duncan. Duncan does not die of old age or an illness, but by being murdered out of pure jealousy. However, within this scene Lady Macbeth has natural human feelings. She cannot murder Duncan because he looks too much like her father, meaning that she has the natural human emotion of affection. This is shown when she says "Had he not resembled/ My father as he slept, I had done't." The third death that many critics analyze is when Lady Macbeth dies. It is thought that she commits suicide. In Act V, Macbeth says "What is that noise?" (Shakespeare 163 ln 7). Seyton then replies, "It is the cry of women, my good lord." (Shakespeare 153 ln 8). Many critics believe that Lady Macbeth jumped from the top of the castle and Macbeth heard her scream. In current times, there are many issues of whether or not suicide should be considered murder. However, back during the time of Shakespeare suicide was considered a major topic in art and theater. All-in-all, suicide is not a
The characters go through a number of changes in feeling through the scene; these changes will be looked at in detail in the main body of the essay. This scene takes place immediately after the murder of Duncan. Meanwhile Lady Macbeth is anxiously wondering whether Macbeth will really do the deed. When he returns, covered in blood and highly strung, she organises how to cover up the murder so that they won't be found out. In this scene we see certain emotions in the characters,
A deadly combination of ambition and guilt poisons both Macbeth and his wife and leads to their deaths in the end. Ruined by her desire for power, Lady Macbeth’s descent into madness is more vivid and guilt seems to affect her more than her husband, even though he is responsible for more crimes. Her request to the spirits to “unsex [her] here,/ And fill [her], from the crown to the toe, top-full/ Of direst cruelty!” is contrasted as the more guilty she feels, the more weak and sensitive she become, a polar opposite of her usual masculine and bold self (1.5.44-46). As a result, she is unable to cope with the guilt and meets her ultimate demise by taking her life. This has an immediate effect on Macbeth: the almost always apparent tension of ambition and guilt disappears. He does not seem interested in living and is ready to face death in a manner more relatable to his former self rather than the murderer he has become. Moreover, Macbeth’s final remark is “Arm, arm, and out!”,
Lady Macbeth is a complex and intriguing character in Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth. She is a difficult character to embody as her personality seems split between two sides, one that is pure evil, sly and conniving in contrast to her softer, vulnerable, weak and feminine side. In the play we see her in these two main ways. The reader may feel a certain animosity towards Lady Macbeth throughout the first few acts as her personality appears more and more distasteful, in spite of this towards the end she has a serious breakdown over the guilt that torments her, even in her sleep, regarding her hand in Duncan’s untimely death.
Lady Macbeth has the power over her husband to persuade him into doing anything she requests. She manipulates Macbeth with incredible efficiency by overruling all of his thoughts and changing his perspective on the present. Even though the many tasks that need to be completed are difficult to understand why they need to be done, Lady Macbeth will always convince Macbeth to do it. Her husband often tells her that she has a “masculine soul” which is obvious due to her murderous and envious actions. When the time came to kill king Duncan, Macbeth believes that his wife has gone insane and tells her that the crime they were about to commit was a horrible idea. As a result of his questioning, Lady Macbeth says that executing the crime will show his loyalty to her. On the night of the assassination Lady Macbeth watched the guards of the castle become drunk and unaware of what was going on. Lady Macbeth sent her husband into the castle to kill King Duncan. The married couple fled the scene leaving the guards covered in the evidence. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are stained with the blood of their victims and the feeling of guilt in their stomach.
Throughout the play of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth has many different emotions. She is very demanding and in control of what she wants people to do. She is very confident in her plans that they will get done. But also, there are times when she may feel weak or scared to do something. She forces Macbeth to go along with the plan to kill Duncan so he can be King and she will be Queen. Lady Macbeth is sure that they will not get caught witheir plans and they will be safe. She is nervous though when it is time to kill Duncan because he looks like her father. Lady Macbeth shows lots of emotions during the play.
In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth’s character develops greatly throughout the play. In the opening of the play she is illustrated as a dominant, devious woman who does not have to think second about conspiring to execute the King of Scotland. Nonetheless after the dirty deed is completed, Lady Macbeth breaks down at the end of the play. She endures a nervous breakdown and commits suicide, which displays how she went from a powerful woman to a remorseful maniac.