In all four texts each of the Authors have been able to produce writing that connotes images or is symbolic and throughout each text links to a theme of loss of identity can be made. With that being said, the way in which each author displays this is different in each text. In the story of Macbeth, Shakespeare looks at the identity of a person as a Mother, a wife and a human by detailing Lady Macbeth 's famiy characteristis and attributes. One way this is shown is through how she willlingly wants to help her husband 's cause and to see the success of her Husband. Lady Macbeth is so willing that she is prepared to give up her own identity as a Mother and to ruin her image of a normal woman. After receiving news of the prophecy, Lady Macbeth …show more content…
Right from the beginning of the poem Miss Havisham shows herself as a cold and cruel individual although Duffy gives us the impression that she was not always this way. A loss of sanity becomes evident as she is written to spend 'Whole das in bed cawing Nooooo at the wall; the dress yellowing '. Duffy 's use of vivid imagery here, more particularly from the word 'yellowing ' aarises connotations of pieces of flesh or plants that are rotting. This could possibly be Duffy 's representation of Miss Havisham 's mental state and the phrase forces us to believe that this is decreasng progressively. in the poem, Miss Havisham views the veins on her hands as 'ropes on the back of my hand that I could strangle with '. At first glance this statement displays Miss Havisham as a victim of evil thoughts. It is clear that her mind has been consumed by evil and anger as she views something as ordinary as her own veins as weapon of murder. Furthermore, Miss Havisham titles her veins as 'ropes '; lifeless objects. From this it could be argued that her personality has been tampered with and altered to an extent where she no longer views herself as human. However, as we explore the statement in greater detail, it could be stated that the destructive use of language here is a reflection of how damaged she has become by the loss of her husband.Miss Havisham 's attitude towards her ex-husband and …show more content…
(Shakespeare presents identity loss as a force capable of damaging