Lady Macbeths role in Macbeth

Title: Lady Macbeths role in Macbeth
Category: Literature / English | Words: 947 | Pages: 4.0 (approximately 235 words/page)

Lady Macbeths role in Macbeth

In Scotland in the 1000's, women did not have as much power as men. Women were thought of more as maids or meant to stay at home and take care of their children then to work. In the play Macbeth, Lady Macbeth was not the typical lady from this time frame. Lady Macbeth was a powerful and driven lady that instigated her husband to do many horrible things that she could not do herself. As …showed first 75 words of 947 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 947 total…the lives of others forever. With a little love, compassion and power, is it possible to make others carry out events that may change them and others for the rest of their lives? “ Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” (Macbeth, Shakespeare, 5.5, Line 24-28)

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