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- Full of self-will and discipline
- Determined - The chain of imperatives ('come', 'fill', etc) gives her speech a special urgency and determination.
- Predatory - She prays for darkness to hide her planned actions, 'Come thick night/And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell'.
- Evil - She calls on 'spirits' to 'tend on mortal thoughts'
- Manipulative - She tries to convince her husband to go along with the plan to kill Duncan and questions his manhood, 'What beast was't then/That made you break this enterprise to me?/When you durst do it, then you were a man/And to be more than what you were, you would/Be so much more the man.'
- Deceptive - She acts 'like the innocent flower' but the 'serpent under't'
- Ambitious - 'I feel now the future in the instant'
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- Lady Macbeth is Macbeth's wife and the mistress of Dunsinane Castle.
- She persuades Macbeth to murder King Duncan.
- She becomes his active accomplice, even returning the bloody daggers to Duncan's bedroom when Macbeth fears to return them himself.
- Represents the women who are a source of evil and violence. She brings out these themes in the play.
- She begins to feel the emptiness of their achievements, seeing only 'doubtful joy'.
- Victim of her own crime/malice/evil played by guilt.
- Shakespeare does not show Lady Macbeth's decline into nervous breakdown and suicide, giving only one glimpse of that horrifying process: the torment she experiences in her sleepwalking.
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