Comparing Lady Macbeth 'And My Last Duchess'
Explore the ways disturbed characters are presented in Macbeth and my last Duchess.
Disturbed is a dreadfully intense and powerful word, which can unfortunately be used, to describe Lady Macbeth and the Duke. The two characters are both disturbed in their own unique ways. Lady Macbeth can be portrayed as disturbed because of her constant desire, to terminate her feminine, weak traits. However, the Duke could be considered to be a disturbed character, because of the fact that he murders his Duchess, for an exceedingly minute reason.
There are many reasons why these two characters were anomalous for their context. The Duke existed in Renaissance Italy, where there was a very strong belief of capitalism, therefore including upper and lower classes. Using the context, it is very clear to spot out an irregular pattern within ‘My Last Duchess’. The Duke presents this …show more content…
This could have been one of the many possible reasons why Lady Macbeth could not live with herself, therefore, committing suicide. However, the poem, ‘my last duchess’, can arguably contain a whole range of themes. One possible theme that could be presented within my last duchess is luminosity and bliss. I think this because the Duke speaks with a very polite posture, to the lower class envoy, and to a majority of the audience, it could sound very sincere, yet deceiving.
There are numerous amounts of double meanings that come to mind, when analysing ‘My last duchess’. For example, the Duke states, ‘I gave commands and all smiles stopped together’ This quote means that the Duke has arranged for assassins, to have the duchess murdered, therefore, all of her smiles physically would have stopped. The other meaning for this quote is that the Duke gave orders, to murder the duchess; as a result, everyone around the duchess, such as family and friends, stopped
Disturbed is a dreadfully intense and powerful word, which can unfortunately be used, to describe Lady Macbeth and the Duke. The two characters are both disturbed in their own unique ways. Lady Macbeth can be portrayed as disturbed because of her constant desire, to terminate her feminine, weak traits. However, the Duke could be considered to be a disturbed character, because of the fact that he murders his Duchess, for an exceedingly minute reason.
There are many reasons why these two characters were anomalous for their context. The Duke existed in Renaissance Italy, where there was a very strong belief of capitalism, therefore including upper and lower classes. Using the context, it is very clear to spot out an irregular pattern within ‘My Last Duchess’. The Duke presents this …show more content…
This could have been one of the many possible reasons why Lady Macbeth could not live with herself, therefore, committing suicide. However, the poem, ‘my last duchess’, can arguably contain a whole range of themes. One possible theme that could be presented within my last duchess is luminosity and bliss. I think this because the Duke speaks with a very polite posture, to the lower class envoy, and to a majority of the audience, it could sound very sincere, yet deceiving.
There are numerous amounts of double meanings that come to mind, when analysing ‘My last duchess’. For example, the Duke states, ‘I gave commands and all smiles stopped together’ This quote means that the Duke has arranged for assassins, to have the duchess murdered, therefore, all of her smiles physically would have stopped. The other meaning for this quote is that the Duke gave orders, to murder the duchess; as a result, everyone around the duchess, such as family and friends, stopped