Macbeth LRJ #1

Chue Meng Vang

Ms. Peifer

English 10 IB

February 22, 2009

Lady Macbeth
Lady Macbeth is a strong, ambitious and unfeminine female character. She has big plans for her and Macbeth's future. She reads Macbeth's letter about becoming the Thane of Cawdor. Then the letter mentioned about the three witches calling him King. Lady Macbeth wants this to happen and plots about how to make this happen.
"Under my battlements. Come, you spirits that tend on my moral thoughts, unsex me here, and fill my crown from toe top-full of direst cruelty."(p.33)
Lady Macbeth is asking for here feminine to be taken away. She wants to be strong for this moment. She encounters the fact that her husband Macbeth doesn't want to follow through with her plan of killing Duncan and she tries to convince him to not worry and follow through. She basically tells him to man up.
"We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail." (p.43)
The theme that can be seen in this act is power. Macbeth is receiving power and wants more of it, and so does his wife. They even plan to kill Duncan who is the present king. In scenes six and seven Macbeth and his wife conspire.
The image that really seems to popup is that of the witches because they show up several times in the act and there is very good imagery used in the witch scenes. Words like thunder, lightning, dance, beards, skinny lips, and choppy finger help to make it easy to picture the witches and their surroundings.