Macbeth Comparison Essay

Two Scenes later Macbeth is having doubts about if he should kill Duncan and Lady Macbeth starts manipulating him to get him to do it. “From this time, Such I account thy love.” (Shakespeare 1.7, 41-42) she is questioning his love for her because he will not kill Duncan. After the crime is committed she is the one that takes the dagger from Macbeth and wipes blood on Duncan's attendants, “My hands are of your colour, but I

Lady Macbeth begins to demonstrate her insaneness as the scene progresses. Lady Macbeth talks to herself as she continues her sleepwalk while she recalls the murder scene and says "Out damned spot out" (5.1.33). Lady Macbeth in this scene shows how lost she is in her hallucinations when she tries cleaning the blood, believing that if the blood is clean, so is her guilt. This scene also occurs when she says, "Here's the smell of the blood still, all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand,". This portrays how Lady Macbeth's belief of cleaning her hand will make her less guilty, except for the smell of the blood still in

She sleepwalks, reliving Duncan’s murder in her nightmares, and murmurs to herself, “Out, damned spot, out, I say! / ... Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?... What, will these hands ne’er be clean?” (5.1.37-45). Lady Macbeth, despite being seemingly unfazed by the crimes she helped her husband commit earlier in the play, now experiences the psychological backlash of her guilt.

In act 1, scene 7, “ When you durst do it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man”, this quotes tells the audience that lady macbeth is questioning Macbeth manhood, it remind present audience not only about the present, but this more of the past, due to view changing over time. This quotes reflects both the Elizabethan era, and Jacobean era, due to it still being in the period of time that England was still prioritizing men over women, and due to the fact that they believed that men were more stronger than women, they believed that men should not be ruled by emotion, rather ambition. In act 1 scene 5, “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. Make thick my blood. Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Th' effect and it.

However, blood is also linked to not only death but other emotions that affect all of the characters. Lady Macbeth is recognized in the beginning of the play as a determined woman who wants her husband Macbeth to become the king of Scotland. However, Lady Macbeth will do anything in her way to achieve her goal in making her husband become the king of Scotland which includes committing murder. Lady Macbeth’s desire for power is shown in the play in the ways that she manipulates her husband to commit cold hard murder. She turns a solider known by many of his acquaintances as a brave honored solider who played a big part in helping the Scottish defeat the Norwegians into a power hungry mortal who becomes acquainted with death.

Additionally, Lady Macbeth’s participation in the murder of King Duncan drives her insane,”Out, damn'd spot! out, I say!”(V.i.37). Lady Macbeth's call to demons to fill her soul with evil did not protect her from the from the consequences of her actions. The decay of Lady Macbeth’s sanity is Shakespeare's warning to the audience not to act out of selfishness for one cannot see the consequences in store when one acts rashly for self

Lady Macbeth displays many characters similar to that of a paranoid schizophrenic of today’s standards due to the hallucinations, delusions, recurring nightmares, and hyper arousal that she conveys, especially towards the end of the novel. (Downfall). Hallucinations are defined as sensory perceptions that have no basis in reality, such as the visions of blood that Lady Macbeth imagines is there (Downfall). Over time, the readers see how these events catch up to her and lead her to see things that are not there based off of events that have happened to her. The line, “Is this a dagger which I see before me...

As Lady Macbeth continues to hide her “weak” attributes by displaying a stronger shell, she also reveals her sense of ambition. Although Macbeth and Lady Macbeth both seek power, it is obvious that power is what drives Lady Macbeth. From the second she knew about the witches’ prophecies, she made it her goal to become King and Queen. When she creates a plan to murder King Duncan, Macbeth shows he is nervous, Lady Macbeth finds this problematic and asks him to “project a peaceful mood, because if you look troubled, you will arouse suspicion.” (1.5.63-65).

Matt Chamberlain English 10 3-22-23 Macbeth Essay Macbeth is a play written by Shakespeare that's storyline is a major tragedy. Through the reading of the book I have been looking deeply into blood and the meaning behind it. The word blood in Macbeth is a tell to what the characters mood is at the time that they are speaking about the word blood. Lady Macbeth is showing her mood using the word blood in this next quote.

William Shakespeare portrayed the character Lady Macbeth to be extremely ruthless, malicious and manipulative. Thus, being the reason she could easily convince Macbeth to do her will, yet still put on such a convincing performance in front of those who knew nothing of her and her husband’s actions. Lady Macbeth shows her complexity constantly throughout the story when she shares her view-point on masculinity by demasculinizing her own husband, when she strategically plans the murder of the King Duncan, and finally when she finally goes crazy because of the guilt she possesses for not only her own actions but also turning her own husband into a

(lines 33-37). Again, Lady Macbeth shows her lust for power. Her exceptional amount of greed continues to motivate

In the Shakespearean drama Macbeth, the protagonist, Macbeth, transforms from a respected warrior to a power-hungry, paranoid oppressor. Act III, scene iv takes place during a banquet, where Macbeth sees the ghost of Banquo, whom he murdered. In this scene, Shakespeare utilises figurative language, motifs, and dialogue between Macbeth and his wife to convey Macbeth’s clear mental deterioration through his desire to gain power immorally. In the banquet scene, Shakespeare uses the unique dialogue of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to portray Macbeth’s declining mental state.

This contrast immediately gives the reader an insight into the torment that guilt and regret can cause. There is a clear definition between Lady Macbeth before and after the murder of King Duncan. This character change emphasizes greatly the theme of the impacts upon a person due to the unnatural acts they have performed. In Lady Macbeth’s case the impact was guilt and regret both of which tormented her to point of serious mental illness, insomnia and ultimately a self induced demise. The author 's intention in bringing a once strong and evil character to the mercy of their own morality is to educate readers upon the impacts that guilt could have upon their own life if they were to perform the unnatural just as Lady Macbeth did.

The change of Lady Macbeth is best seen in the way Ari Mattes’s review describes it stating , “About a third of the way through the film, she suddenly becomes a profoundly sympathetic character” (Mattes

The way that she says these lines with the crying and the agony and despair of her voice illustrates that Lady Macbeth is more upset than irrational and crazy. This emphasizes that she is more upset about her actions than mentally ill. In the text for this scene one can infer that Lady Macbeth is guilty, however in this version it is not seen that she is very guilty. It is not seen that she is guilty because Judi Dench emphasizes the lines talking about the murders and the flashbacks with a more shaky voice which illustrates that she is sad not that she is guilty. This version of Macbeth Act 5 Scene 1 was not successful in representing Shakespeare 's vision because of the lack of Lady Macbeth acting crazy and irrational, and because the tone is a tone