Macbeth Lady Macbeth Character Sketch

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Lady Macbeth, the Clytemnestra of English tragedy is naturally drawn as a foil to Macbeth.She possesses ¬  

and an iron stability of resolve. It is toLady Macbeth what imagination is to Macbeth the feature that transcends and dominates all other in the character. It is the secret of her influence over Macbeth and of her success in winning him to consent. But, it proves her ruin. It makes Lady Macbeth impose upon herselfand bear, for a time, a strain beyond the ultimate endurance of the rest of her powers. In fact, her imperious will, like Macbeth·s excess of imaginative faculty, disturbs the proper relation of the forces of the character. Lady Macbeth·s character has   unlike Macbethwho turns to her for co-operation, until his menancing sense of retribution substitutes its fatal stimulus.  too, Lady Macbeth is superior of Macbeth just as Portia is of Bassanio and Rosalind of Orlanto. The dexterity with which she meets Macbeth·s reluctance to go further in the work, the swiftness with which she perceives the effect of the deed on Macbeth and the resource and alertness of brain Lady Macbeth manifests at the banquet scene, all are but commendable. But intellectual keenness does not compensate      Gifted with true imaginative insight, Lady Macbethcould never have made her appaling miscalculation as to the moralresults her crime would produce in Macbetdh and in herself. Of  she certainly manifests less than Macbeth. It has been held that even the dire sleepwalking scene doesnot justify us with crediting her with true remorse for : ¬       

     However, judging more by what we see rather than what we hear, the wrecked body and soul does highlight some working of the conscience as a potent cause in the character of Lady Macbeth. The three main reason of Lady Macbeth·s delirium in the sleepwalking scene can be characterised  
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 Illuminating the brighter side of the character of Lady Macbeth we find in her character true devotion to her husband.  remarks,¬      ! 
    It is notable that even after Macbeth·s breakdown in the banquet scene, Lady Macbeth utters no word of reproach but simply remarks : ¬          Lady Macbeth·s very initial solioluqy reveals her 
 
  
    
   Lady Macbeth·s invocation of the powers of darkness proves that she is no stranger to gentler impulses of   
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    Thus, Shakespeare·s Lady Macbeth is a misguided and misguiding wife who for the fulfillment of her husband·s desires prays to be nerved by unnatural access to ferocity but ultimately suffers a crash of finer spirit due to nemesis.