Shakespeares Lady Macbeth -- a Lady? Essays -- Macbeth essays

madam Macbeth -- a Lady? -- in Macbeth William Shakespeares Macbeth places a charr in center stage, a woman who embarrasses every woman because of her lack of conscience. This essay attempts to shed light on her character. Blanche Coles states in Shakespeares four-spot Giants evaluates the character of Lady Macbeth A woman who could speak as Lady Macbeth does, who could call upon the liven that tend on mortal thoughts to unsex her and poisonous her from head to foot full of direct cruelty, who could entreat these same spirits to stop all avenues of remorse so that no compunctions of conscience will interfere with the carrying out of her purpose, who could call upon the night to wrap itself in the murkiest, gloomiest gage of hell in order to hide, even from the keen dig she would use, the outrage she would make when she herself stabs the sleeping King, such a terrible, frightful woman would not scruple at telling a little wife-to-husband lie to strain her purpose. (52) I n Everybodys Shakespeare Reflections chiefly on the Tragedies, Maynard Mack shows how Lady Macbeth complements her husband Her accrue is instantaneous, even eager, alike Eves in Paradise Lost his is gradual and reluctant, like Adams. She needs only her husbands letter about the weyard sisters prophecy to precipitate her lick to kill Duncan. Within an instant she is inviting murderous spirits to unsex her, necessitate her with cruelty, thicken her blood, convert her mothers milk to gall, and darken the world That my keen knife see not the wound it makes (1.5.50) (189) L.C. Knights in the essay Macbeth describes the unnaturalness of Lady Macbeths address and actions Thus the sense of the unnat... ...Blakemore Evans. Boston Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972. Knights, L.C. Macbeth. Shakespeare The Tragedies. A Collectiion of Critical Essays. Alfred Harbage, ed. Englewwod Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1964. Mack, Maynard. Everybodys Shakespeare Reflections Chiefly on the Trage dies. Lincoln, NB University of Nebraska Press, 1993. Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Macbeth. http//chemicool.com/Shakespeare/macbeth/full.html, no lin. Siddons, Sarah. Memoranda Remarks on the Character of Lady Macbeth. The Life of Mrs. Siddons. Thomas Campbell. London Effingham Wilson, 1834. Rpt. in Women culture Shakespeare 1660-1900. Ann Thompson and Sasha Roberts, eds. Manchester, UK Manchester University Press, 1997. Wilson, H. S. On the Design of Shakespearean Tragedy. Toronto, Canada University of Toronto Press, 1957.