The different ways in which lady Macbeth changes all the way through the Play

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The different ways in which lady Macbeth changes all the way through the Play

In Elizabethan times the audience were very concerned about anything to with magic or witches, action was taken if anything suspicious about a certain individual was noticed, if a individual was suspected of being a witch they were killed, or put on a test to see whether they could survive the prosecution if they could then they were a witch.

Lady Macbeth has lots of control over Macbeth she is partly the cause of the tragedy that happens. She drives Mac Beth into doing what he does and gets emotionally involved with him.

In the beginning (the scenes act1 scene5-7), she thinks that the problems should be taken into her own hands as soon as she reads the letter about the witches' prophecies. At the start of the play, Lady Macbeth thinks that Macbeth couldn’t do the murder and that he was not tough and manly enough to do it, she thinks he couldn’t:

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She plans to be quick in planning what to do. Her first thoughts and actions as soon as she reads the letter, affect Macbeth so deeply later on, his character totally changes. She drives MacBeth to be evil, Lady Macbeth wants to be sure that Macbeth will get to be king of Scotland. She looks for the quickest way to do this for Macbeth, so he can get the throne more sooner. She gets a letter from Macbeth saying that was predicted to eventually become king of Scotland. As soon as she read the words, she ...

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