During the last scene, Lady Macbeth expresses her guilt through a dream. Lady Macbeth says “Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfume of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand, Oh! Oh! Oh!” (5, 1; 42). The causes of her death was the buildup of guilt in her.
The woman in the dramatic monologue is the woman with the strong feelings unlike normal women of the 18th century who would have gone to a church to pray to god, for him to give them strength, but this woman decided to go to a laboratory which was considered as the devils house, “devil’s-smithy”, to take actions into her own hands. On the other hand, in Macbeth, lady Macbeth want king Duncan dead so that Macbeth an rule, king Duncan has not done any thing wrong to lady Macbeth unlike in the laboratory where the woman who is going to be killed has caused the man to cheat on her partner. Macbeth by William Shakespeare is about how a loyal and brave general can change because of greed and temptation. Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth who is a loyal general to King Duncan and in the opening scene is returning after defeating the old thane of Cawdor who had rebelled against the king. On his way back he meets three witches who tell him his future “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be what thou art promised”.
“ Macbeth has changed (weak to strong,emotionless) “She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word”. “I am in blood stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er” “"The castle of Macduff I will surprise… His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls That trace him in his line." Lady Macbeth Changed (strong to weak guilty) “Out damn spot! Out I say..” “The queen my lord, is dead.” Sick from guilt and died Loyalty “For Brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name” captain “O valiant cousin, worthy gentleman” Duncan talk about malcolm “Fit to govern?
Big nurse replies “its good therapy”. Another time she provoked a patient at the end of the book she caused him to kill his self. It was Billy Bibbit and nurse Ratched threatened to inform his mother about his disobedient actions.
Pea 3: Shakespeare really extrudes Lady Macbeth’s disturbed nature to the audience with her clear ignorance of conscience early on in Act 1 scene 7 when describing killing a child for Macbeth if she said she would do it. “I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.” The instantly noticeable violent imagery with “pluck’d” and “dash’d” provides clear ignorance of conscience to claim she would carry out an act like this and not be affected. Pluck’d provides an image of the baby being easily accessible and exposed to just be pluck’d. Dash’d provides the effect of violently thrusting the baby in an evil manner at increasingly high speeds to see the splatter of evilness and pain of the brain symbolising the end for the baby. Shakespeare has used “brain” because the imagery is further emboldened due to the fact it is gruesome.
But they prayed and went back to sleep.” Macbeth answered. “I also thought that I heard someone say, ‘Wake up! Macbeth is killing those who are sleeping.” “What are you talking about?” Lady Macbeth asked in confusion. “Someone was yelling out over and over again, ‘Wake up, because Macbeth is killing those who sleep, so Macbeth won’t sleep any more.” “Who said that?” Lady Macbeth asked. “You probably just tired.
In this quotation she uses an owl to represent this death. This lack of consistency shows how lady Macbeth is simply using them as an excuse to kill Duncan. Further proving this point, is when she says the fatal bellman. In this context she is saying that because this owl shrieks Macbeth must kill Duncan. With this in mind, we take into consider how lady Macbeth ends up dying towards the end of the book showing how Shakespeare believes that Lady Macbeth shouldn’t use birds as an excuse for her
By creating a being, therefore, Victor automatically positions Woman in a lower rank than Man and ranks her essentially as unnecessary. Chapter 3 begins with a detailed description of Elizabeth and Victor’s mother, after they both contracted Scarlet Fever, resulting his mother’s death. Victor himself describes her death as an ‘omen…of my future misery’, and it seems that after his mother’s death, all female characters are shunned from Victor’s life, as he engages with his experiment. His mother’s death could not only symbolise his finality on engaging with a female character, but could also represent the death of all his morality and virtue, as represented by the docile and passive nature of women in the novel, portrayed through use of ‘The Sublime’ language and imagery. Furthermore, as well as usurping the natural role of women, Victor already usurps her working role, as his intense study at university, compared to the previous docile and domesticated description of Elizabeth , and Victor’s dying mother (in chapter 3), contrast to highlight the ableness of Man to work and earn a living, and women who are more suited to domestic life.
Then the narrator becomes worse. She starts seeing a woman in the walls. Later, the narrator tears the wallpaper to get the woman out, which is when the narrator's illness is the worst. Gilman writes, "I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper as I did?" (755).
Macbeth now kills without thinking or lifting a hair on his arm. This is clear in Act 4 scene 2 when Macbeth sends for the murder of Lady Macduff and her son. This marks the moment of Macbeth’s utter madness, he no longer is killing for political gain or to get rid of an enemy, but simply out of the desire to do harm and evil. However, Lady Macbeth’s guilt drives her to utter madness in a different direction. She now sleepwalks and always has a delusional belief that she has blood on her hands.