Lady Macbeth

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    Shakespeare paints a picture of Lady Macbeth as a woman whose her’s morals are decaying through the play, this is exemplified in Act 1 Scene 5 when Lady Macbeth was praying to the devil, sacrificing her  humanity  “come to my woman’s breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering  ministers”

The fact that she is praying to the devils reflects that she knows that she can’t pray to god because she is going to destroy the natural order, which leads her to pray to the devils, which makes the Jacobean audience feel disgusted with her, and observe her moral decay, also the quote mirrors that she is ready to sacrifice her humanity to do this sin because humanity acts as a barrier preventing her from doing it; this sacrifice destroys that barrier. In addition the noun “milk” emphasis kindness, purity, and live-giving, so she wants to replace it with “gall” which is the juxtapose of kindness and purity; thus, she favors gall over purity that mirrors her moral campus is ruined. And the same point was supported from a quote of Lady Macbeth in Act 2 Scene 2 saying: “but I shame To wear a heart so white.” This also reflects she dislikes being kind and innocent thinking it is shameful . Moreover  going back to Act 1 Scene 7 when Lady Macbeth used the words (raven, crocks, gull, blood, murder, hell, spirit) from Lady Macbeth creating a semantic field of sinister which sums up that  Lady Macbeth’s thoughts are completely consumed by darkness. This reinforces that Lady Macbeth isn’t just evil in her actions, she is upon the evil itself. She wasn’t saturated with her ruined moral compass. Her moral decay pulled her to wreckage; her husband’s as well. In Act 1 Scene 7, when she emasculated her husband because of his kindness and loyalty to the king, saying: “When you durst do it, then you were a man”, Lady Macbeth thinks a real man will have enough courage to do the evil dead and kill the king, meaning she defines courage and bravery as not having any fear of doing malignity actions, and this wrong understanding of the real golden values of courage is the result of her ruined moral compass that. berried these values under her desire. Then the use of the verb ‘drust’ creates the idea that Lady Macbeth is challenging Macbeth to kill ling Duncan, and if he didn’t he won’t be a man in her perspective anymore, this means that she doesn’t believe that being honor and loyal to the king are types pf masculinity, which all a result of her morals.  

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   Shakespeare creates the idea that Lady Macbeth is a weak character, but she is hiding it by being dominant on an even weak character which is Macbeth, but as soon Macbeth gets stronger, she loses her control over him, which leads to her dominancy to decay, which makes her weak character to show up gradually. Unlike women in the 11th century, Shakespeare started presenting Lady Macbeth as a dominant, superior character in her relationship with her husband, this can be seen in Act 1 Scene 7 when Lady Macbeth was maculating Macbeth when she said   “When you ...

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