Lady Macbeth And Porphyria's Lover Analysis
In this analysis, I will be comparing Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, Robert Browning’s ‘The Laboratory’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’. All of these texts include one or more villainous characters.
Lady Macbeth shows that she is a villain when she is persuading Macbeth to kill King Duncan. We see this in the quotation “When you durst do it, then you were a man”, in which she attacks his masculinity.
“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t” is an important quotation and can be related to the Story of Adam and Eve. It shows the contrast between appearance and reality which in Lady Macbeth’s case is that from the outside she looks pretty and innocent but in the inside she is evil and all she wants is power.
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In ‘Macbeth’, Lady Macbeth says “I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out”. This is a very shocking confession at our time and so was as the time this play was written. She is a villain because she is using very violent language and is encouraging murder. A quotation which relates to the one above from ‘The Laboratory’ is “Not that I bid you spare her pain! Let death be felt”. The narrator says this to the apothecary, who was making a poison for her to kill the woman her husband/lover was cheating on her with. She wants the woman’s death to be painful as a revenge for all the pain the narrator herself felt because of their affair.
Both of these women are villains as they want to cause others pain for their own good, to make themselves feel better and to get their revenge/power.
Lady Macbeth has also been presented as a villain through the tactics of flattery, accusing Macbeth or cowardice, questioning Macbeth’s masculinity and manhood, reassurance and emphasising her own
Lady Macbeth shows that she is a villain when she is persuading Macbeth to kill King Duncan. We see this in the quotation “When you durst do it, then you were a man”, in which she attacks his masculinity.
“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t” is an important quotation and can be related to the Story of Adam and Eve. It shows the contrast between appearance and reality which in Lady Macbeth’s case is that from the outside she looks pretty and innocent but in the inside she is evil and all she wants is power.
This quotation and its meaning can be related to …show more content…
In ‘Macbeth’, Lady Macbeth says “I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out”. This is a very shocking confession at our time and so was as the time this play was written. She is a villain because she is using very violent language and is encouraging murder. A quotation which relates to the one above from ‘The Laboratory’ is “Not that I bid you spare her pain! Let death be felt”. The narrator says this to the apothecary, who was making a poison for her to kill the woman her husband/lover was cheating on her with. She wants the woman’s death to be painful as a revenge for all the pain the narrator herself felt because of their affair.
Both of these women are villains as they want to cause others pain for their own good, to make themselves feel better and to get their revenge/power.
Lady Macbeth has also been presented as a villain through the tactics of flattery, accusing Macbeth or cowardice, questioning Macbeth’s masculinity and manhood, reassurance and emphasising her own