Shakespeare depicts this differentiation quite well through his characters – Macbeth and Lady Macbeth – in his play Macbeth. ... Yet still Lady Macbeth is back home barely sane. ... Her crumbling mind confesses the deeds: "Out, damned spot! ... Macbeth and Lady Macbeth each started this play strong, one stronger than the other. ... Macbeth wavered but came back stronger, while Lady Macbeth did nothing but decline. ...

• Word Count: 1512
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The play "Macbeth" was written by William Shakespeare in the Jacobean era. ... "Macbeth- is, in many ways, a play with a moral, showing us how power and ambition can corrupt a person, and, in the case of Lady Macbeth, how a guilty conscience can be their demise. ... Macbeth then addresses his wife as: "My Dearest Love-, If Lady Macbeth were in fact pure evil, then she would not have been capable of such a loving relationship. ... It is Lady Macbeth's ministering that encourages Macbeth's lust for power and for the throne of Scotland, by any means necessary. ... Lady Macbeth also u...

• Word Count: 2244
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Both Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, have a driving ambition that turns each of them into a spiral of guilt and evil. ... The first words spoken of Lady Macbeth are in prose. ... As Macbeth progresses with his evil acts, however, Lady Macbeth starts to go mad. ... After killing Duncan, she flippantly tells her husband that "a little water cleans us from this deed" now it is evident that this is not true, as the sleepwalking lady tries in vain to scrub the stain of blood off her hands, "Out, damned spot, out, I say!" ... However, can Lady Macbeth's actions be justified? ...

• Word Count: 1525
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The three witches collude to meet with Macbeth 'upon the heath'. ... Lady Macbeth is absent from the opening scenes of Macbeth; this indicates the position of women in an autocratic patriarchy. ... Macbeth is distraught by the impending murder and when Duncan arrives, it is Lady Macbeth who greets him, prompting the king to question: Where is the Thane of Cawdor?' ... She too loves her husband; her first words to the audience (after reading Macbeth's letter) include her solemn wish that Macbeth will indeed 'be what [he is] promised'. ... Her utter solitude and ...

• Word Count: 1419
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Not only does Macbeth demonstrate the fall of a noble man but also when looked through the eyes of a feminist lens, it is clear that Macbeth's need to fulfill the masculine ideal influenced his fall. ... Macbeth confesses to Lady Macbeth that he could no longer utter the word amen after saying a prayer. ... Macbeth desperately asks for his wife's help to take away his punishment. ... He tells Macduff about the horrors that Macbeth has inflicted on his family. ... She washes her hands and yet again the spots reappear. ...

• Word Count: 2029
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Lady Macbeth displays to the audience all of Macbeth's weaknesses; her ambition to have power becomes her husband's and this will bring out Macbeth's ambition to be king. ... Lady Macbeth is a main character in this play because she introduces Macbeth and helps the reader to understand his character. ... As time passes and he and Lady Macbeth are suspected of all the murders that have taken place, Macbeth decides to kill the one who flees the country to get an army together to overthrow Macbeth, Macduff. ... When they had seen Lady Macbeth walking one they saw her washing her ha...

• Word Count: 1285
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Lady Macbeth wants to be unnatural, so that she can be "fell," deadly." (http://www.shakespearenavigators.com/macbeth/Nature.html) Try un-compunctious. ... "The unfailing technique that Lady Macbeth uses to keep Macbeth to his purpose is to taunt him with suggestions of effeminacy and cowardice. ... Everything that Lady Macbeth has done is now torturing her mind, heart, and soul. ... And, not in the way Macbeth showed his dread, but, in a way more confess-like. ...

• Word Count: 2179
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

In his play Macbeth, Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth was a textbook example of someone with OCD. Her character however was a madwoman, whose compulsive hand washing gave her lines like "Out damn spot! ... The compulsion to clean or wash or wash is that of Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth, and it involves cleaning ones self or inanimate objects excessively, usually following a set routine (Summers, 1999). ...

• Word Count: 1808
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School