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   sampu88 Student
   High School - 12th Grade

   In Act 3, we, as the audience, come across Lady Macbeth as a woman who is confident, determined and calm-minded. She is aware of her husband's plan of murdering Banquo, but unlike him, she is firm in her actions and her dialogue. She takes up the role of conforting him and rekindling his passion for the throne. She becomes the catalyst, one who fires his thoughts and accelerates his actions. She is an ambitious woman, who plays the superior, more dominating role in the relationship that she shares with her husband.

   Her attitude and personality change drastically in Act 5, where we come across a woman, bearing a 'heavy heart' and a disturbing conscience. It is her conscience and awareness of having influenced her husband to murder others, that burdens her mind and affects her mental stability. Since she cannot confess her guilt to anyone, she confesses her problems to her pillows, while she is asleep. This culminates in her developing somnabulism. She sub-consciously discovers, that nothing in the world could rid her off this guilt. This we understand when she says that even the 'sweet-smelling perfumes of Arabia' could not rid her hand of the stench of blood.

   Eventhough she was not informed about Macbeth's decision to murder Macduff's family, she is aware that it was because of her husband, that the latter have gone missing, and she considers herself responsible for their loss. She is in a pitiable state and in need of desperate help and comfort. 

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   Posted by sampu88 on Sunday October 7, 2007 at 6:18 AM
   
   

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   mariaa2 Teacher
   Graduate School

   Lady macbeth was wearing the pants

   Now Macbeth were the pants in act 3

   Lady macbeth wanted to kill

   now is macbeth who wants to kill n have power

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   Posted by mariaa2 on Monday October 22, 2007 at 3:51 PM