Lady Macbeth Character Analysis

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Lady Macbeth
- Initial Impression
  - She is ruthlessly ambitious.
    - "Take my milk for gall"
      - Will do anything in order to gain power
      - Milk encourages life to grow gall takes it away,
      - Use of imperatives
        "Look""Bear"
  - Immoral Nature
    - Disregard for patriachal society
      - "Unsex me here"
        Wants masculine power.
        
        Doesnt have female qualities
  - Her Relationship with Macbeth.
    - Use of imperatives
      - "Look""Bear"
- Appearance vs Reality
  - Couldn't commit the murder herself as Duncan resembles her Father
    - Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done ’t
      - Shows her inner weakness
  - Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under't
    - Religion
      - Snake= Devil
  - "A little water clears us of this dead"
    - Foreshadowing.
    - The guilt drives her to madness
      - Out Damn Spot
        Religion
        Goiong to hell
        
        Reality
    - Appearance
She is Evil
- She wishes to suppress her feminimity
  - She is initially dominant
    - Overestimates her own ruthlessness
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    - Point
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