Part one of term paper
The politically ambitious character of Shakespeare’s Macbeth maintains a distinctive relationship with his wife characterized by subservience. In the Holinshed’s Chronicles’ recounting of the Macbeth history, the wife of Macbeth is scarcely mentioned. The idea of an independent, aspiring Lady Macbeth is purely Shakespeare. In numerou ...

Part two of term paper
... 5, Lady Macbeth receives a letter from Macbeth detailing his encounter with the witches and their prophecies. After reading the letter, she immediately began plotting to murder King Duncan. Our first indication of Lady Macbeth’s ambition and dark nature is evident when she says, “…That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements. “ (I: v: 39). She continues her speech by asking the spirits to “unsex me here, and fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst crue ...