Lady Macbeth
Lady Macbeth: NO CONSCIENCE versus CONSCIENCEIn the first two acts of the play, Shakespeare portrays Lady Macbeth as a person without conscience. Upon learning from the messenger that King Duncan will be spending the evening in her castle, in act 1, scene 5, Lady Macbeth immediately says in a monologue that ¡§the raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under [her] battlements.¡¨ At this instant, it is clear that what Lady Macbeth has in mind is murder, for ¡§raven¡¨ symbolizes death. Shortly after, in the same monologue, Lady Macbeth becomes so obsessed with the idea of the murder that she asks for spirits to ¡§unsex¡¨ her and fill her up with the ¡§direst cruelty.¡¨ After Macbeth assassinates King Duncan and his chamberlains and Lady Macbeth ¡§gilds¡¨ the chamberlains with Duncan¡¦s blood, in act two, scene 3, Lady Macbeth seems unaffec
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Approximate Word count = 584
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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