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Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth’s conscience by showing her disregard to ensuring her keeping her ‘two faces’. To begin with, in Act 1 Scene 5 she asks Macbeth to “Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t”, and they both make an effort to keep their illicit activities a secret. However it is shown how she disregards this view (as a result of her guilt) further in the play by stating “What, will these hands ne’er be clean?” in the presence of the Gentlewoman and Doctor. While it

on him. Meanwhile Macbeth had yet to receive this news until the conniving Weïrd sisters pay a visit to him and his fellow comrade Banquo. They reveal that not only will he become Thane of Cawdor but, that he will also become king of Scotland. When Lady Macbeth, the wife of Macbeth, learns of this prophecy she convinces her husband the quickest way to obtain the throne is to usurp it from Duncan by murdering him. She adamantly stresses to Macbeth that he must ignore his emotions and conscience by

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the ways in which Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth of ‘Macbeth’ and Browning presents the Narrator of the poem ‘The Laboratory’ in these ways by comparing both texts and using quotes to demonstrate this as both do this by using a variety of different language techniques and devices. This essay will compare how audiences would have reacted during the Victorian and Elizabethan era, compared to a 21st century audience today. William Shakespeare portrays Lady Macbeth as a confident individual all throughout

decide if it will overtake them or not. Body Paragraph 1 Main Idea 1 – power is a tricky thing. Some people cant handle it. ● Topic Sentence: talk about lady Macbeth and how power corrupted her ● Supporting Details: here ill put in a quote from where they were talking about murdering the king and then ill put a few sentences about how lady Macbeth was crazed with power and would do anything to obtain it. Body Paragraph 2 Main Idea 2 – power doesn’t corrupt everyone. ● Topic Sentence: (I don’t

example of this is when Lady Macbeth is convincing Macbeth to kill the king she says, “Your hand, your tongue. Look like th’ innocent flower,/But be the serpent under ‘t”(Shakespeare I. vi. 76-78). Lady Macbeth finds the letter that Macbeth wrote and is telling him the plan to kill the king. Even though Duncan has been betrayed before, he is about to be betrayed again, Macbeth had these thoughts put in his head by the witches but was hesitant on acting upon them. This was until Lady Macbeth forced him

When he started killing he knew it was not right. Since, Lady Macbeth and her pride she helped change her husband to have power and continue until the end with both of them dead. 7. He has to be faced with a very serious decision that he has to make Macbeth faced many important decisions when he had felt loyalty to the king, but still took his life and had other people kill for him. He convinced them this is what had to be done. Lady Macbeth made more decision for him when he was not going

Weakness in a powerful woman Lady Macbeth is a frightening female character. Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Macbeth was placed in a time when women were expected to be weak, she used her position to gain power and stay strong. She manipulated Macbeth to the point of killing, but she herself could not do it. Her insanity shows her weakness. In the beginning of the play lady Macbeth appears to be very strong. However, as the play goes on she prays to the spirits by saying, “ come you spirit

Reading "Macbeth", some questions may come to mind-Would Macbeth be capable of commiting such a crime without motivation? What type of person was he really? How could power possibily influence murder? In "Macbeth" by William Shakesquere, Macbeth, is repesented as a tragic hero because of greed, ambition towards the wrong thing and manipulation from his wife. The witches infused that Macbeth's a tragety of character. In the beginning of the play, Macbeth, was a loyal knight who was honored by many

gaining the crown of Scotland. Of the themes in the play, weakness seems to present itself the most. Weakness is presented by: Duncan, Lord Macbeth, and Lady Macbeth. Firstly, the topic of weakness is shown in King Duncan with his over abundance of trust in those close to him. He is first betrayed by the Thane of Cawdor and second by Lord and Lady Macbeth. King Duncan vowed to never again be betrayed “No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive” (Shakespeare 1:2:64). King Duncan so blindly trusted