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Lady Macbeth's Manipulation Of Lady Macbeth

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In William Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth plays the wife of Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is much more ruthless and ambitious than her husband. Lady Macbeth possess great manipulation skills as she persuades her husband Macbeth into killing their king(Act i.VII). She challenges the role of women during the Shakespearean time. Her strong desire to have power and Macbeth king becomes strongly evident throughout the play. When Lady Macbeth first receives the letter from Macbeth that holds the witches’ prophecy, she says that Macbeth is “too full of milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way,” ( Act i. V 16-20) meaning that Macbeth is too nice to do anything with ill intentions. When Lady Macbeth tries to convince Macbeth to murder
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