'Do Not Bold Or Underline In Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth'

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Center Title, Do Not Bold or Underline In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Lady Macbeth can be characterized as greedy, ego-centric, and merciless she helps to show the themes, that people will do heinous things to get what they want. In scene 7 act 1, lady Macbeth wanted Macbeth to be king so bad that she convinced him to kill the standing king by intimidating him and making him feel less than,” And live a coward in thine own esteem,” Banquo himself is having bad feeling that night about everything that is happening, when him and his son, Fleance, are talking he gives him his sword, and says to him “a heavy summons lies like lead upon me, And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers, restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature gives way to in repose.” Banquo’s feeling turned out to be right when Macbeth went in and murdered the king and murdered the guards for fun.

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After Macbeth killed his best friend, Banquo, he saw his ghost at their dinner, he begins to panic and lady Macbeth starts telling him that it’s the “very painting of your fear” meaning that he’s not seeing it, it’s just his mind playing tricks on him. She starts to tell the guest at the party that he is “not of his youth” to make an excuse when he is going crazy after seeing the ghost. Later, when everyone figures out that Macbeth has been doing all the killings, their guards tell them that he sees the woods moving, that being the unnatural troubles, we then see lady Macbeth having a meltdown, the guilt is getting to her, she thinks she sees blood on her hands and begins to scrub her hand with bleach, she goes crazy from lack of sleep. When she turs the water on she sees, blood coming out of the faucet. She has another meltdown after that. She dies this long scream and then she kills
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