Lady Macbeth's Transformation

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TThe strive for power can seem to be an ideal.Those should be careful as to what they want for, that power might be of them. MacBeth regresses from a logical, sympathetic , caring, and diligent man, to an entirely half hearted, amoral prototype of disbelieving numbness.. Lady MacBeth's role changes throughout the story because she changes from sweet and faithful to devious plus murderous and towards the end she turns guilty. Firstly, lady MacBeth attitude changes from sweet and faithful and then later on she continued changing . "Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe topful of direst cruelty! make thick my blood; stop up the access and passage to remorse, that no compunctious…show more content…
“Come to my woman’s breast and take my milk for gall” (Act 1 Scene 5, Line 46-47), Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be what thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o' th' milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it. (1.5.15-20). After reading the letter from her husband (which recounts the witches' prophesy), Lady Macbeth's thoughts immediately turn to murder. Macbeth has ambition, but he doesn’t have the nerve to see it for himself. The quote means that lady macBeth's acts are coming to mind about murdering her husband. Significantly, in this letter Macbeth says nothing of their prophecy to Banquo whose to say maybe he is already afraid of its innuendo . Equally significantly, he sets up Lady Macbeth as his "dearest partner of greatness." She will foresure become his partner in crime helping him pursue such acts. Well now as we know Lady macBeth's role changes yet again…show more content…
Lady Macbeth is seen as being sweet and lovable then switching to monstrously evil and guilty through the last acts of the play. When her character is first introduced, her strength and ambition are powerful as she oversees her husband that the witches' prophesy will indeed come true, even as she determines whether Macbeth has the endurance to make sure that it does. She conveys her concern in thinking, "I fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way" (I,v,16-18). She laments her womanhood, and, in a chilling compact with evil, prays to be "unsexed" because she thinks that her femininity makes her weak (I,v,41-50). The analysis shows that she wish she was one of the guys so she can be more dominant. The quote means that she believes she is the weaker sex and that she wishes she had a bare chest so she can conquer just like the men can and she feels she can do a better job as
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