Compare and contrast Lady Macbeths language, style and tone throughout Macbeth

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Compare and contrast Lady Macbeth’s language, style and tone throughout Macbeth...

Macbeth was written by William Shakespeare in 1606. The story of Macbeth is about a brave Scottish general (Macbeth) who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches, that Macbeth will one day be king of Scotland. Forced by his selfish wife and his own cruel ambitious thoughts, Macbeth murders the king and seizes the throne for himself, which leads to a brutal bloodbath. Macbeth involves love, betrayal, murder, deceit and other things. The play is set all around Scotland, but mainly in Macbeth’s castle. Shakespeare got his inspiration by paying homage to his king’s Scottish lineage. Most of the play’s that Shakespeare wrote under King James I’s reign were inspired by James’s himself.

Macbeth is still a popular play today because it is so ahead of its time. The way it is ahead of its time is because most of those ideas would probably be in a modern horror or action movie which most people enjoy. In the play Macbeth, the wife of Macbeth, who throughout the play is referred to simply as ‘Lady Macbeth’. This character has characteristics about her that is very different to the patriarchal society where women would have never spoken up and would do whatever their husbands told them to do, and seen as being very weak. But Lady Macbeth is quite a contrast since she is a very strong independent woman and also takes control of things, which is very different to the average women in a patriarchal society because she wears the trousers between the two.    

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The way we learn about Lady Macbeth in Act 1 Scene 5 is the way she says her soliloquy and in that she decided the plan straight away. What we learn from this is that she is a very controlling and cunning person. Also when she is speaking she uses alliteration like she is about to cast some kind of spell. She shows some of her evil side in the ways that she speaks. Also she keeps repeating the witches prophecies, this shows that she is justifying her actions by never saying the plan is her own and ...

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