Lady Macbeth: An innocent flower or deceitful serpent
Blooms Literature
Lady Macbeth as the innocent flower
In the play Macbeth, Lady Macbeth’s role could be interpreted as an innocent flower or a deceitful serpent, during this scene( Act 1,scene 5)we see Lady Macbeth showing her deceitful side when she manipulates Macbeth in killing King Duncan, which leads to the change in Macbeth's character from hero of the play to the evil character. However towards the end of the play we see the downfall of Lady Macbeth and her innocent and softer side when she feels remorse for killing King Duncan. Her guilt becomes evident through her sleepwalking, in the end however the guilt proved too much for the once fearless Lady Macbeth to the point where she kills herself.
- Our secondary source from Blooms Literature article "Lady Macbeth and feminist Literature" states Lady Macbeth has "The duality of a woman who inspires extremes of love." (Snodgrass, Mary Ellen) The source is referring to Lady Macbeth love for her bring forth her good and her bad.
Lady Macbeth's love for her husband
Coronation street Karl's love for Stella
- Manipulated Macbeth into killing Duncan because she knew her husband would be good king
- Expresses her love through planning the simplest way for the deed of Duncan to get done
- "Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be.What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature;It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness"
- Lady Macbeth love for her husband Macbeth can relate to this clip because we see the character Karl confessing to the wrongs he committed but he also explain he did it so the could be together. Like Lady Macbeth manipulating Macbeth into killing Duncan,she did it out of love for her husband.
A guilty conscience
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- We see the innocent flower in Lady Macbeth towards the end of the play where her conscience becomes too much for her to bare
- Had he not resembled, my father as he slept, I had done't.” Lady Macbeth shows her softer innocent side through this quote because we see her opening up and showing feminist
- By the end of the play Lady Macbeth becomes the true innocent and fragile character, the audience becomes aware of this through her sleepwalking.
The duality of Lady Macbeth
- •Lady Macbeth's deceitful side is used to express her innocent flower underneath
- •“Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,Till thou applaud the deed”
- During Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking scene, the audience is given this feeling of reverence or respect for her because of the struggles she had to endure because she loved Macbeth
Innocent Flower AND Deceitful serpent
Lady Macbeth relation to Mean girls
The concept of our visual is the good and evil of Lady Macbeth. During The Tragedy of Macbeth. we see her as the innocent flower and the deceitful serpent all the same time, our poster try's to grasp that although she seems to be both, in way she is, because in each evil there was good.
Lady Macbeth the innocent flower
The Innocent Flower
Throughout the play The Tragedy of Macbeth, it is seen that Lady Macbeth is depicted as both a deceitful serpent or an innocent flower. In this presentation, it was evident that the topic of discussion was how innocent Lady Macbeth truly is despite her acts of evil. Lady Macbeth is an example of a strong character, who is misunderstood. One can argue she is deceitful however it is evident her deceitful side is apart of her deceitful side.
In the play, Lady Macbeth is portrayed as an innocent flower because of her love for Macbeth, her guilty conscience, and the duality of her character which represents her characters strengths and weaknesses
How to play
- Lady Macbeth is seen either innocent or deceitful
- Separate into groups, we are going to give you phrases said my Lady Macbeth
- you have to translate to us what she is saying in modern English and whether is shows her deceitful or innocent side
- Contestant has a certain amount of time to respond or another group gets to steal it. and winner gets a prize !
- "I have given suck, and know.How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:I would, while it was smiling in my face,Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you.Have done to this"
- " Had he not resembledMy father as he slept, I had done't."
- "Out, damned spot! out, I say!—One: two: why, then, 'tis time to do't.—Hell is murky!—Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we.fear who knows it, when none can call our power.to account?—Yet who would have thought the old.man to have had so much blood in him? "
Quotes
- "Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way."
- "Come, you spirits .That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty!"