Having upbraided her husband one last time during the banquet (Act III, Scene 4), the pace of events becomes too much even for her: She becomes mentally deranged, a mere shadow of her former commanding self, gibbering in Act V, Scene 1 as she "confesses" her part in the murder. Ultimately, she fails the test of her own hardened ruthlessness. When she faints immediately after the murder of Duncan, the audience is left wondering whether this, too, is part of her act. Now that the first part of the witches’ prophecy has come true, Macbeth feels. He seems to have gotten used to the idea, as by this point the body count has risen to alarming levels. But in public, she is able to act as the consummate hostess, enticing her victim, the king, into her castle. After his first confrontation with the witches, Macbeth worried that he would have to commit a murder to gain the Scottish crown. Lady Macbeth persistently taunts her husband for his lack of courage, even though we know of his bloody deeds on the battlefield. Her burning ambition to be queen is the single feature that Shakespeare developed far beyond that of her counterpart in the historical story he used as his source. The site starts at K and runs right to grade 12 with lesson and unit plans, activities, and more.
Unlike her husband, she lacks all humanity, as we see well in her opening scene, where she calls upon the "Spirits that tend on mortal thoughts" to deprive her of her feminine instinct to care. ReadWriteThink is a web-based resource center for teachers that aims to help teach literacy to students. Macbeth's wife is one of the most powerful female characters in literature.
0 kommentar(er)
