Explore how Shakespeare and browning reveal strong feelings using Lady Macbeth and the laboratory. The laboratory by Robert Browning is about how one woman in aristocratic France because of betrayal and jealousy can lead to attempting to kill her partners’ new lover. The woman is at a laboratory to have a poison created to kill her rival. During which she has flash backs revealing what she has witnessed. 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.
We also recommend watching Macbeth: Themes and Quotes from the Scottish Play and A Midsummer Night's Dream: Summary, Quotes and Characters Lady Macbeth Character Analysis Ambitious. Manipulative. Evil. These three adjectives can easily be applied to Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's play Macbeth. Her lust for power and position drive her to manipulate her husband to murder Duncan,
Browning uses the title to set the scene for the story as “The Laboratory” is a place where scientific experiments take place but oddly in the poem it’s a place the narrator (a woman) uses the tell her feelings and plot revenge. The poem is set around the time before the French revolution which is indicated from the subtitle, “ancient regime” which was at a time of internal conflicts and civil wars’ showing it was at a violent time which could be linked to why the narrator took such drastic measures. The poem is set mainly around the place in which the apothecary man is working, where he is making the poison that will be used to kill the narrator’s enemy. The narrator is close by the apothecary man, whilst he is making the poison as she watches it, “curling whitely”, showing she wants to be involved in the preparations and see it come together This reveals a more sinister aspect behind her actions. The narrator seems to be the only voice in the text but the poem was supposed to be a conversation yet she dominates the conversation not allowing the other character present (apothecary man) to respond or get his opinion on her situation.
EXPLORE THE WAYS IN WHICH THE SPEAKER’S FEELINGS ARE PORTRAYED IN ‘THE LABORATORY’ The Laboratory was written by the famous poet Robert Browning. The story appears to be set in 17th century France during the period of the Ancien Regime. This was a time when women were seen as insubstantial and vulnerable beings and from reading this dramatic monologue we gain an understanding of how powerless they were deemed by the rest of society. This is a poem about a seemingly paranoid woman who pays an apothecary a visit mainly because she’s in search of poison(s) which she reckons would act as the proficient tool to accomplish her malicious deeds. She’s paranoid in terms of believing that her lover has been having an affair with two women who she thinks are more beautiful than her, however in stanza 3, she says “Better sit thus and observe thy strange things than go where men wait me and dance at the King’s”; this gives an idea that she’s also a beautiful woman who is likewise given attention from other men however she decides to overlook that fact and cultivate a rather vindictive temperament by refusing to let the pain and embarrassment brought upon her by her current/former lover surpass her.
As a result she makes a poison to kill the woman with. “Pound at thy powder, - I am not in haste!” The immense feeling of anger and violence is shown in this quotation with the word “pound” – it’s almost as if the speaker wants to do this to the people she has been deceived by. Although the feelings presented in The Laboratory are very
When Abigail was talking to Proctor she says “She is telling lies to about me! She is a cold sniveling woman, and you bend to her!”(Page 15, act one) she is basically showing her jealousy towards his wife. This stirred up the witch trials because Abigail wanted to be with Proctor and she would do just about anything. The fact that John proctor realizes all of his flaws and confesses to all of his sins is another reason why he can be considered a tragic hero. When Proctor had to go to the court to get his wife out of being accused of upholding witchcraft he eventually confess to his sins he committed.
And demandin’ of her how she come to be so stabbed, she testify it were your wife’s familiar spirit pushed it in’” (Miller 71). Spoken by Ezekiel Cheever, a clerk of the court, this dialogue shows that Abigail purposely stabs herself to make it seem as if it were the evil act of Elizabeth’s spirit. When the townsmen search the Proctors’ home, they discover the poppet with a needle poked in it (Abigail’s doing). Elizabeth is arrested, and Abigail is satisfied – for the time being. John Proctor, on the other hand, is outraged because he clearly knows the real motive behind Abigail’s deceitful
This illusion is one of the witches, sowing the seeds of murder in Macbeth, and ultimately, immediately after he murders Duncan. Further, Macbeth again visits the witches, this time in a plead for further knowledge and is met with additional illusions. Before though, Hecate meets with the witches and states, “Shall raise such artificial sprites / As by the strength of their illusion / Shall draw him on to his confusion: / He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear”(Shakespeare 3.6.26-29). The witches use apparitions to further influence Macbeth this time leading him down a false path. By doing this, Macbeth becomes arrogant and feels invincible.
First Macbeth sees the dagger that he will use to kill Duncan. Then, he sees the ghost of Banquo who he had murdered. Last, Lady Macbeth was confessing her sins in a sleepwalking trance. The three scenes are important because they demonstrate a theme in the play. Word Count:
I am the judge and I notice something really strange going on with Lady Macbeth, she is repeating herself and that is what guilty people do when they are hiding something. Lady Macbeth should be the one executed because she was behind every murder and everything bad that happened. When they invited Duncan to come over Lady Macbeth planned the murder before anyone else could. Lady Macbeth did not advise Macbeth to kill Duncan but she pushed him to kill him. Lady Macbeth always seemed quality because Lady Macbeth would get into a trance and relive the accident trying to wash the blood from her garments and hands proving the guilty conscience.