Their circumstances nothing, in short, to arouse the least sympathy for their conduct in any way. For there is really nothing redeeming in their thoughts nothing palliating in ![]() The same ideas, methods, and designs expressed inĬommon parlance would surely excite only horror and disgust, with a laudable desire to punish both the To this prospect of the somewhat doubtful joys and delights of royalty, Macbeth at first makes a ratherĪnd she boldly if not enthusiastically rejoins, noticing Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom." Which shall to all our nights and days to come This night's great business into my dispatch, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,īut be the serpent under it. Look like the time bear welcome in your eye, In her odious designs against the trustful King: She proceeds to give him certainly able instructions Your face, my Thane, is as a book, where men She asks an important, dangerous question, the secret meaning of which he very likely apprehends at once, Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter! She exclaims joyfully, at meeting and congratulating him The King is in Shakespeare's grandest style. The language with which this hateful woman persuades her brave yet weak husband to slay Noble language alone gives an apparent dignity to a base, shameless character, whose ambition is selfishĪnd worldly. Increasing power her own will rise proportionately, owing to her influence over him. She knows her fortunes are now linked with his, and that with his Much stress has been laid, seems, when considered in reference to her worldly position and interests, worthy Hardened, ambitious woman, resolute and utterly unscrupulous. New dignity and promised royalty, immediately suggesting to his agitated, unwilling mind the murder On Macbeth's arrival home, soon after his wife hears of the royal visit, she congratulates him on his Never contemplated, though a resolute woman, and personally hostile to King Duncan. Such a crime, involvingĭeliberate regicide, with the most fearful violation of the duties of hospitality, the real Lady Macbeth She urges upon Macbeth, against his will, with the most ruthless determination. "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,īut Lady Macbeth, more relentless as well as moreĪmbitious than her husband, immediately conceives the horrible idea of murdering her royal guest, which This hope apparently occurred to Macbeth himself, on first hearing His sons were alike fated to die before Macbeth, which would ensure his lawful as well as predictedĪccession to the Scottish throne. It is, perhaps, strange that the idea never occurs to her superstitious mind that probably Duncan and Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem It is too full of the milk of human kindness,Īnd chastise with the valour of my tongueĪll that impedes thee from the golden round, What thou art promis'd: yet do I fear thy nature She therefore proceeds with some doubt, yet determined: Is a delightful astonishment to her, as King Duncan has two sons, Malcolm and Donalbain, both loyal ![]() But the sovereignty of Scotland, though Macbeth is related to the King, This last title she might likely expect for Macbeth owing to the rebellion of its unfortunate owner, who was ofĬourse proclaimed a traitor. ![]() Therefore exclaims eagerly to herself, as if addressing him: Of Glamis he possessed before, but he and she now foresee or expect the two future distinctions, and she Their telling him he will become King of Scotland and be previously made Lord of Cawdor. She reads in her husband's castle a letter from him announcing his strange meeting with the witches, Prophecy, she resolves to persuade Macbeth to remove every obstacle to its fulfillment. Husband's becoming king, and, though they never suggested crime as necessary to confirm their For she thoroughly believes the witches' prediction about her Shall never leave Macbeth's castle alive. Directly she hears of the King's visit, she resolves in her own mind that he Without a particle of his loyalty to the King, which prevents his following her counsels as speedily andĮagerly as she wishes. ![]() Although a bold, ambitious, worldly woman, she from the first believes them, implicit faith in witchcraft and magic beingĮvidently general, if not universal, in Scotland at this period. Lady Macbeth hears both of the coming royal visit, and also of the appearance and words of the three witches. Lady Macbeth From Shakespeare Studied in Six Plays by Albert Stratford George Canning.
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