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Analysis Of Lady Macbeth Was The Hope Drunk Wherein You Dress D Yourself

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Lady Macbeth does not portray the expectations of a jacobean woman as she belittles and emasculates Macbeth to gain what she desires. As Macbeth expresses his fears through the regicide of the king, Lady Macbeth through her metaphor in “Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself?” compares Macbeth's hope to a living dress that was drunk and she rhetorically questions if the dress was only feeling so brave because it drank too much. She further goes on to ask how he slept, and asks if he woke up sick with a hangover "Looks so green and pale" and that is the reason why he is questioning himself. According to Lady Macbeth, Macbeth is ambitious but is far too ‘kind’ to do what it takes to murder duncan. Lady Macbeth intends to “chastise” Macbeth

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