Lady Macbeth
Lady Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's greatest and most intriguing female characters. She is positioned to be viewed as fiercely ambitious and a deceptive, evil consort all at the same time.
Throughout Act one it becomes apparent that Lady Macbeth is highly ambitious, stopping at nothing, not even murder, to fulfil her own ambitions. When Macbeth first writes to her detailing his meeting of the witches and their prophecy, her first thoughts are of worry; she believes that Macbeth...
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