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Lady Macbeth Soliloquy Analysis
"Macbeth a play based on treason loyalty and knowledge consists of many different characters one unlike the other.
The protagonist's wife Lady Macbeth is introduced in the fourth scene of the first act in which she reads her husband's letter which tells about Macbeth's meeting with the witches and their prophecy.

Claiming that her husband is far too softhearted , although he appears as a cruel and blood-thirsty person in the first scene of the first act , the audience gets the impression of even more cruel wife who embodys some aspects of a witch.
This picture is underlined by her second soliloquy in which she pleads evil spirits to assist her plan of Duncan's murder and hide her actions from every existing creature including God.

It is not an easy thing to describe the love towards her husband because it is not mere love which connects her to him but even deification.
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There is one word which describes this situation very well: Domination!

Normally one would say that a person like Macbeth -who is not only Thane of Glamis and Cawdor but shall be King- would hold the upper hand in a relationship but here it is totally different.
A man and one of Macbeth's position is interrupted and manipulated by a woman.
This exception has to be based on a total bond between Lady Macbeth and her husband or the weakness of Macbeth's

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