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An act full of misery and hopelessness, beginning with Lady Macbeth's most famous scene - out damned spot. With critical notes and analysis.
The scene mirrors Macbeth’s earlier references to his own guilt, and acts as a clear indication of how the once-defiant and determined Lady Macbeth, one of Shakespeare’s most fully realised female villains, has become undone by her own conscience.
Exploring the sleepwalking scene in Act 5 Scene 1 of Macbeth, with Niamh Cusack who played Lady Macbeth in the 2018 production and Assistant Director Peter B...
Jul 31, 2015 · Synopsis: Lady Macbeth reads her husband’s letter about his meeting the witches. She fears that Macbeth lacks the ruthlessness he needs to kill Duncan and fulfill the witches’ second prophecy. When she learns that Duncan is coming to visit, she calls upon supernatural agents to fill her with cruelty.
In National 4 English revise the key characters of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, including Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and the three witches.
Jul 31, 2015 · Scene 1. Synopsis: A gentlewoman who waits on Lady Macbeth has seen her walking in her sleep and has asked a doctor’s advice. Together they observe Lady Macbeth make the gestures of repeatedly washing her hands as she relives the horrors that she and Macbeth have carried out and experienced.
Lady Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most famous and frightening female characters. When we first see her, she is already plotting Duncan’s murder, and she is stronger, more ruthless, and more ambitious than her husband. She seems fully aware of this and knows that she will have to push Macbeth into committing murder.
