Back in Inverness Lady Macbeth has gotten word from her husband on the prophecies of the weïrd women and the news lights a fire of cruel desires inside her. ... Shakespeare makes it known that Lady Macbeth is strong in the most horrific of ways with her strong desires for power. Again she asserts her control, but this time over husband when she says, "Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act and valor as thou art in desire? ... While alone Lady Macbeth also expresses her mournful thoughts by saying "Nought's had, all's spent, where our desire is got without content:...

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In Lady Macbeth's case, the main fault that brought about her destruction and final suicide was greed, along with an ignorance and repression of the emotions that contradicted this desire. ... He shows a desire to do so, saying to himself, "That is a step/On which I must fall down or else o'erleap...Let not light see my black and deep desires." ... The elusiveness of the witches uses Macbeth's subconscious intentions to come to his own conclusions. ... Again, she is quelling her own moral instincts in order to allow herself to seek the power that she desires. ...

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It is this vicious cycle which Macbeth has subconsciously created, that makes him go mad. ... When Macbeth is unsure of killing Duncan, she attacks his manhood, saying: "Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valor As thou art in desire? ...

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"Lady Macbeth is the embodiment of evil and we are not meant to feel any sympathy for her."" Discuss this statement with reference to the play. The play "Macbeth" was written by William Shakespeare in the Jacobean era. Judging by the plays themes of Scottish monarchy, loyalty to the crown and...

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