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	Macbeth Navigator: Characters: Lady Macbeth
		Lady Macbeth asks what's going to be done, but her husband answers, "Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, / Till thou applaud the deed" (3.2.46).
		Lady Macbeth, who does not know what has happened to Banquo, tries to play the gracious hostess, and says of the guests, "my heart speaks they are welcome" (3.4.8).
		Lady Macbeth's waiting gentlewoman tells a doctor, "I have seen her rise from her bed, throw her night-gown upon her, unlock her closet, take forth paper, fold it, write upon't, read it, afterwards seal it, and again return to bed; yet all this while in a most fast sleep" (5.1.3-7).
	www.clicknotes.com /macbeth/Ladym.html (1621 words)

	Macbeth Summary guide at Absolute Shakespeare
		Lady Macbeth was to have killed the King but his resemblance to her late father means Macbeth does the deed instead.
		Macbeth recounts that the two guards cried out "'Murder!'" and later "'God bless us!'", Lady Macbeth telling her husband not to fret over such things and the fact that is conscience prevented him from saying "'Amen,'" as one of the guards had done...
		Macbeth decides to kill Macduff to protect himself from him and takes the Apparition's words to mean he is safe from all men since they are all born naturally and that only the moving of a nearby forest to his castle, an unlikely event will spell his doom.
	absoluteshakespeare.com /guides/macbeth/summary/macbeth_summary.htm (1904 words)

	Lady Macbeth (In-Depth Analysis)
		This theme of the relationship between gender and power is key to Lady Macbeth’s character: her husband implies that she is a masculine soul inhabiting a female body, which seems to link masculinity to ambition and violence.
		Lady Macbeth manipulates her husband with remarkable effectiveness, overriding all his objections; when he hesitates to murder, she repeatedly questions his manhood until he feels that he must commit murder to prove himself.
		Lady Macbeth’s remarkable strength of will persists through the murder of the king—it is she who steadies her husband’s nerves immediately after the crime has been perpetrated.
	www.sparknotes.com /shakespeare/macbeth/terms/charanal_2.html (322 words)

	Women in History of Scots Descent - Lady MacBeth was Upholding Her Rights
		Lady Gruoch, step-mother of Lady Gruoch (Lady MacBeth) mustered her army to Kill King Gillacomgen of Moray after he had killed King Boede, the father of Lady MacBeth after Boede made his wife the heiress to his estate.
		The step-mother Lady Gruoch was an ally of Duncan.
		MacBeth descended from the 2nd daughter of Malcolm II therefore not entitled to the thrown.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/women/wih4.htm (477 words)

	Lady Macbeth -- Essay at LiteratureClassics.com
		Lady Macbeth tells him that he is ‘Like the poor cat i’ the adage’ he wants the crown as the cat in the proverb wants to have the fish but he will not do what it takes to get it like the Cat will not wet her feet to capture the Fish.
		Macbeth still refuses and Lady Macbeth then goes to the extremes and uses imagery saying that she would rather dash out the brains of a baby than let a chance like this pass them by, her character appears to be getting more fiendish and wicked by the minute.
		Lady Macbeth is in her own private hell which is a large contrast with her firmness of purpose and certainty of mind at the time of Duncan’s murder.
	www.literatureclassics.com /essays/236 (2390 words)

	The Amazing Technicolor Goldfish - Lady Macbeth
		Lady Macbeth is the real power behind the throne because she is the dominant partner at the beginning of the play, she persuades Macbeth to achieve his goal of being king, and she plans and organizes the murder of Duncan.
		Lady Macbeth calls Macbeth a coward and says he is not a man. She hopes that by insulting Macbeth she can make him kill Duncan.
		Macbeth, on the other hand, is weaker than she is, and takes on the traditional female role in a marriage.
	www.technicolorgoldfish.net /macbeth.html (1592 words)

	Lady Macbeth Character Analysis
		The almost superhuman strength Lady Macbeth rallies for the occasion and her artful and sly ability are shown through her meticulous attention to detail regarding the murder.
		Perhaps Lady Macbeth felt that suppressing her conscience for the deed was enough and that later the thought of the deed would just dissipate.
		Lady Macbeth's attempts to suppress her conscience fail.
	www.angelfire.com /tx3/chrissandy1/caladymacbeth.htm (666 words)

	Shakespeare Resource Center - Macbeth Synopsis
		When Lady Macbeth is informed of the events, she determines to push her husband's resolve in the matter—she wants him to take his fate into his own hands and make himself king.
		Macbeth, in a quiet moment alone, imagines he sees a bloody dagger appear in the air; upon hearing the tolling bells, he sets to work.
		Immediately Macbeth feels the guilt and shame of his act, as does Lady Macbeth, who nonetheless finds the inner strength to return to Duncan's chamber to plant the dagger on the attendants when Macbeth refuses to go back in there.
	www.bardweb.net /plays/macbeth.html (687 words)

	BJU ~ Macbeth
		For Shakespeare's original audiences, perhaps the most engaging element of Macbeth was its incorporation of the supernatural in the witches and apparitions, the imaginary dagger that beckons Macbeth to murder, and the ghost of Banquo.
		On the other hand, Lady Macbeth, who approaches the murder unimaginatively as mere business to be carried out, is haunted by her own imaginative memories of the crime.
		In the end, Lady Macbeth cannot bear to go on living with her guilt; and Macbeth, a prisoner in the dungeon of his own mind, sees life as empty and meaningless before he is himself savagely slaughtered.
	www.bju.edu /campus/fa/cod/cp/macbeth (657 words)

	Lady Macbeth
		In Macbeth, the interest of the story is so engrossing, the events so rapid and so appalling, the accessories so sublimely conceived and so skilfully combined, that it is difficult to detach Lady Macbeth from the dramatic situation, or consider her apart from the terrible associations of our first and earliest impressions.
		Lady Macbeth is not a woman to start at shadows; she mocks at air-drawn daggers: she sees no imagined spectres rise from the tomb to appal or accuse her.
		Lady Macbeth is placed in a dark, ignorant, iron age; her powerful intellect is slightly tinged with its credulity and superstitions, but she has no religious feeling to restrain the force of will.
	www.theatredatabase.com /16th_century/lady_macbeth.html (3920 words)

	MacBeth - Tragic Hero
		When Lady Macbeth was ready to kill King Duncan herself, it showed that Lady Macbeth could not murder King Duncan because he reminded her of her father.
		Macbeth's first murder was a trying experience for him, however after the first murder, killing seemed to be the only solution to maintain his reign of the people of Scotland.
		Lady Macbeth's influence also comes in to play because if not for Lady Macbeth, his ambition would not have been intensified enough to drive him to obtain and maintain his title of King of Scotland no matter what it took, even if it meant murdering.
	www.field-of-themes.com /shakespeare/essays/Emacbeth3.htm (484 words)

	Free Essay Hamlet - Claudius Vs. Lady Macbeth
		Lady Macbeth was indeed as power hungry as Claudius, and she too plotted a murder in order for her husband to obtain the crown.
		Lady Macbeth is the same in that she puts up a wonderful facade for both the public and her husband.
		Lady Macbeth¹s life is also brought to a horrible end as a direct result of the immense guilt that she battles inside herself.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=25437 (1379 words)

	Aisle Say (NY): KABUKI LADY MACBETH
		Macbeth is the most operatic of Shakespeare's plays, with its blood-and-thunder plot and the highly charged sexual relationship that makes it go.
		More important, by having Macbeth continue to tromp around deceiving himself after Lady Macbeth's collapse, Sunde destroys the dramatic and thematic scaffolding that supported Act I, the conceit that Macbeth and his lady are a single being.
		That Lady Macbeth's ability to get anything done-goad her husband, plot against Macduff-is truly remarkable considering how little scope she has for acceptable movement or speech.
	www.aislesay.com /CHI-KABUKI-LADY.html (870 words)

	Enjoying "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare
		Macbeth's mother's name is unknown, but she is variously said to have been the daughter of King Kenneth II or the daughter of King Malcolm II.
		Macbeth verbally abuses and bullies the people who he needs to defend him (and who are abandoning him), while reflecting to himself on the emptiness and futility of it all.
		Macbeth, for whom life is a painful meaningless enterprise, speaks of Duncan sleeping peacefully in death "after life's fitful fever"; part of Macbeth's own punishment is to be an insomniac, and Lady Macbeth's is to sleepwalk.
	www.pathguy.com /macbeth.htm (8222 words)

	Macbeth
		Macbeth is a story about the murder of a king by his brother, the revenge of a son (Macbeth), three witches who plot against Macbeth, and Macbeth’s rise and fall.
		Macbeth is momentarily tempted to kill the king in order to fulfill the prophesy, but decides not to.
		Macbeth was tempted by the witches’ prophesy to kill the King.
	library.thinkquest.org /19539/macbeth.htm (2551 words)

	Verdi's Macbeth
		The listener's responses are commensurate with Macbeth's and Lady Macbeth's lack of virtue; their lack of sweetness and light (to borrow Matthew Arnold's words) compel us to recoil from them in confusion and spiritual disarray; we listen with fascination but never do we identify with them.
		Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are anarchical to the core.
		Even Lady Macbeth is, to her own destruction, caught up in the agon, the macho struggle for dominion, surpassing Macbeth himself in aggressive, violent, and finally savage contesting.
	www.plumsite.com /aevecchio/macbeth.htm (1375 words)

	Lady Macbeth: women and power
		Lady Macbeth is a sinister figure: at the very outset she deliberately tries to suppress her feminine qualities in order to excercise power*.
		Lady Macbeth's power is excercised by indirection, through her husband--and she steadily loses that power after Duncan's death, fading into a lonely, guilt-ridden, and finally suicidal melancholy.
		Compare the contrasting roles of Lady Macbeth and Lady MacDuff (4.2), with her precocious son: Lady Macbeth childless, ambitious, ruthless; Lady MacDuff surrounded by children, dependent on her absent husband, and a figure of helpless pathos.
	ise.uvic.ca /Library/SLT/plays/ladymac.html (232 words)

	FREE Study Guide-Macbeth by William Shakespeare-Free Book Notes/Chapter Summary/Synopsis
		Lady Macbeth then enters the scene in a tranced state, unable to see the others even though her eyes are open.
		Lady Macbeth's past (evil) has driven her to madness (evil), which is truly a living death and a punishment for the actual deaths she has caused.
		It is also ironic that Lady Macbeth is able to sleep (unlike her husband who is driven to madness by his sleeplessness), but her sleep, interrupted by sleepwalking and fits of guilt, does not bring relief, but greater pain.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/monkeynotes/pmMacbeth38.asp (668 words)

	Questions About Macbeth: Witches, Blood, and Mysticism in Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and Lady Macduff, Duncan and More...
		She tells them Macbeth will be back to know his destiny and she proclaims that he will see apparitions that will, "by the strength of their illusion" lead him to conclude that he is safe.
		For example, Macbeth returns with bloody hands from the murder of Duncan, and then Lady Macbeth goes back to the scene of the crime to place the daggers, only to return herself with blood-stained hands.
		The same thing is true of Lady Macbeth's ghastly, "Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?" (V.i.45), and accounts - along with the coarse insolence of her reference to the King, guest, benefactor, as "old man" - for the power of this celebrated line.
	www.shakespeare-online.com /faq/macbethfaq.html (2083 words)

	Discover and Explore Macbeth - Lady Macbeth
		Macbeth's father Findlaech, Mormaer of Moray, was, next to King Malcolm, the most powerful man in the kingdom.
		Macbeth on appraisal of the situation could see the potential threat to his own position, and no doubt with his mother's approval he made the approach to Gruach to make her his wife.
		Gruach no doubt still stunned by the death of her husband, must have been a very anxious young lady regarding Macbeth's proposal but, that womanly thing called survival stepped in, and, maybe just maybe it wouldn't be so bad.
	www.thelandofmacbeth.com /ladymac.htm (477 words)

	Lady Macbeth as an evil villain. - CheatHouse.com
		Lady Macbeth is naturally evil as opposed to Macbeth who changed dramatically after his supernatural encounters with the witches.
		Lady Macbeth revealed her evil side when she manipulated Macbeth and questioned his manhood in an attempt to persuade him to kill King Duncan.
		In contrary, Lady Macbeth began as a cruel and vile woman, and she withered and died because of it.
	www.cheathouse.com /essay/essay_view.php?p_essay_id=16806 (346 words)

	Legends - Shakespeare's Stories - Macbeth (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In researching Macbeth for her novel, King Hereafter, Dorothy Dunnett concluded that Macbeth and Thorfinn Earl of Orkney were one and the same, "Macbeth" being a baptismal name, but that research has never been published.
		Macbeth and Thorfinn are variously allies, antagonists, and half-brothers (not that these are mutually exclusive in medieval Scotland!).
		After the defeat of Macbeth and Thorfinn, Duncan's brother Malcolm (later Malcolm III Canmore) may have married Ingibiorg, the widow of Thorfinn (or was it Gruoch, widow of Macbeth?) as his first wife.
	legends.duelingmodems.com /shakespeare/macbeth.html (572 words)

	'Macbeth' ambitious \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		Lady Macbeth, hungry for power, persuades her husband to kill the sitting royal, King Duncan, to make the second prediction for Macbeth come true.
		In their dark cave, the witches warn Macbeth of several things: that he should beware of Macduff; that he will be harmed by no man of woman born; and that he is invincible — until Birnam Wood marches toward him.
		Macbeth is unmoved by news of his wife's death, but he's stirred to panic when he is told that Birnam Wood is marching on his castle.
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	Lady Macbeth - CheatHouse.com
		Lady Macbeth is very successful at persuading him to do things that he knows are wrong.
		Lady Macbeth at least can acknowledge that the murder is wrong and immoral by calling down darkness to hide her murder.
		Lady Macbeth is plagued by her desire to become a queen.
	www.cheathouse.com /essay/essay_view.php?p_essay_id=1058 (355 words)

	Lady Macbeth
		Early in the play she seems to be the stronger and more ruthless of the two, as she urges her husband to kill Duncan and seize the crown.
		After the bloodshed begins, however, Lady Macbeth falls victim to guilt and madness to an even greater degree than her husband.
		Interestingly, she and Macbeth are presented as being deeply in love, and many of Lady Macbeth’s speeches imply that her influence over her husband is primarily sexual.
	www.sparknotes.com /shakespeare/macbeth/terms/char_2.html (127 words)

	Macbeth
		Macbeth (a lusty performance from "Somersault's" Sam Worthington) is now henchman to crime boss Duncan (a strong Gary Sweet), and the play's lords and noblemen become rock-star-ready hoods packing heat.
		Duncan rewards Macbeth for his service during the earlier battle but, while under the influence of celebratory drugs and alcohol at a derelict nightclub, our hero is visited by the trio of witches who prophesy a much greater prize -- delivering their "fair is foul" speech as a glitter ball spins overhead.
		Lady Macbeth, on the other hand, acquires an uncommon vulnerability with the implication that she is grieving the loss of a child.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003119260 (631 words)

	Macbeth
		Macbeth is in his glory—but his jubilation is tempered by the fact that the king's son, Malcolm, Prince of Cumberland—is heir to the Scottish throne.
		Macbeth begins to act and speak strangely, and one guest, Ross, says, ''Gentlemen, rise: his highness is not well.'' But Lady Macbeth entreats the guests to remain in their seats, for ''my lord is often thus, / and hath been from his youth.
		Macbeth presents a problem for the audience in that he evokes both sympathy and condemnation; he is both hero, in a manner of speaking, and villain.
	www.cummingsstudyguides.net /xMacbeth.html (6180 words)

	Macbeth Summary and Study Guide - William Shakespeare
		The current trend of critical opinion is toward an upward reevaluation of Lady Macbeth, who is said to be rehumanized by her insanity and her suicide.
		Much of this reappraisal of Lady Macbeth has taken place in discussions of her ironically strong marriage to Macbeth, a union that rests on loving bonds but undergoes disintegration as the tragedy unfolds.
		After Macbeth and Lady Macbeth succeed in their plan to kill King Duncan, even...
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	Christopher Rush
		Macbeth’s lust for power, fueled by his wife’s greed, causes murder and mayhem, leading to his destruction in the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. The witches’ prediction that Macbeth will be king, encourages his ambitious nature. Greed drives the relationship of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth to seek the throne at all costs.
		Lady Macbeth demeans Macbeth as a coward, and according to her, the act of murder will make him more of a man. She appears to be the catalyst of evil. It is her urging and
		Both Macbeth’s and Lady Macbeth’s consciences flood with guilt because of the crimes that they commit. They know what they did was wrong, but there is no way of going back. This guilt causes them great distress in their new lives and leads to Macbeth’s destruction.
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