Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5 Essay

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Starting from Act I Scene V, the scene has an abrupt onset, we can interpret that the scene starts in the middle of reading the letter. It gives here the first appearance of Lady Macbeth, who is not mentioned earlier in the work. This scene introduces the character. We know that is her because Macbeth refers to her as " my dearest partner of greatness” Regarding this we can also see how this phrase reflects the relationship between them, they are united by a great love and a shared ambition to aggrandize together, she is his great assistant, they wouldn’t have reached the throne without each other. The letter ended with this phrase, suggesting the intentions of Macbeth. " I burnt in desire to question them further, they made themselves air,…show more content…
Fate is taken here as an ally and therefore is kept, but when it seems to be against our heroes it will not hesitate to seek counter. On the second monologue Lady, has a rawness typical of Shakespeare, and is very consistent with what is said. We see in the beginning Lady Macbeth evoking the raven, considered advert of impending death in a house. If she did not had any weakness it would be unnecessary the invocation of spirits to remove her pity and filled her with cruelty, if she did not have no scruples, it would not be necessary to ask to stop the passage to remorse. A double reference to the female as the weaker sex is stablished. She wants to stop being women to stop being weak. She becomes a hybrid, hard and cruel woman, more than her husband. She refers to femininity also from the perspective of motherhood, the milk given to children is an extreme act of love, and is for her nuisance, an obstacle in the way of what she want to
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