Functions of Character: Lady Macbeth by S. Courtney https://padlet.com/s_courtney1/4mru8euqq1yl en-us 2018-01-17 10:51:34 UTC 2018-01-17 11:35:25 UTC hello@padlet.com Gender https://padlet.com/s_courtney1/4mru8euqq1yl/wish/222018059 She discards her feminine side to sucessfully murder Duncan.
She challenges Macbeth's manhood. 
"Are you a man?" . "What, quite unmanned folly" "Come to my woman's breasts" "When you durst do it, then you were a man" ]]> 2018-01-17 11:12:41 UTC https://padlet.com/s_courtney1/4mru8euqq1yl/wish/222018059 https://padlet.com/s_courtney1/4mru8euqq1yl/wish/222018257 She persuades Macbeth to murder Duncan
- she is manipulative and shrewd
" yet I do fear thy nature is to full o'th milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way."

She is a contast to the gender roles at this time and is integral to the theme gender/masculinity in the play.  


She shows how no matter what, you can not shut off from emotions or get rid of your humanity.
Shakespeare illustrates that femininity cannot be denied.

She shows how murder can affect a person's mental stability.


]]> 2018-01-17 11:13:39 UTC https://padlet.com/s_courtney1/4mru8euqq1yl/wish/222018257 Motif- Sleep https://padlet.com/s_courtney1/4mru8euqq1yl/wish/222019083 "The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil" - Innocence
"A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of watching" 
"You lack the season of all natures, sleep" ]]> 2018-01-17 11:17:04 UTC https://padlet.com/s_courtney1/4mru8euqq1yl/wish/222019083 Insanity + Guilt https://padlet.com/s_courtney1/4mru8euqq1yl/wish/222020424 "Out danmed spot - out I say"
"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand"
"What's done, cannot be undone"
"Remove from her the means of all annoyance"

Lady Macbeth is so full of guilt that she cannot get rid of the image of her blood soaked hands.]]> 2018-01-17 11:22:42 UTC https://padlet.com/s_courtney1/4mru8euqq1yl/wish/222020424 Contrast to Macbeth https://padlet.com/s_courtney1/4mru8euqq1yl/wish/222021511 In the beginning her ambition contrasts with his goodness/loyalty 
"Yet I do fear they nature/ It is too full o'th' milk of human kindness / to catch the nearest way"

When the two become more similar near the end of the play, their difference at the beginning highlights Macbeth's devolvement.


]]> 2018-01-17 11:27:06 UTC https://padlet.com/s_courtney1/4mru8euqq1yl/wish/222021511 Strong ambitious nature brings out the worst in macbeth https://padlet.com/s_courtney1/4mru8euqq1yl/wish/222021954 2018-01-17 11:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/s_courtney1/4mru8euqq1yl/wish/222021954 References to Supernatural https://padlet.com/s_courtney1/4mru8euqq1yl/wish/222022255 "Come you spirits / that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here" 

Invoking spirits
Tries to become a man
Demonstrates masculinity needed for brutality: shows why Macbeth has capabilities to be a tyrant after devolving from someone good / honourable ect.]]> 2018-01-17 11:29:59 UTC https://padlet.com/s_courtney1/4mru8euqq1yl/wish/222022255 Female lead https://padlet.com/s_courtney1/4mru8euqq1yl/wish/222022819 Fakes fainting
"The thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now" 
Reflects her own mental downfall at the end of the play:
Sleep talking - unhinged by trauma 

]]> 2018-01-17 11:32:59 UTC https://padlet.com/s_courtney1/4mru8euqq1yl/wish/222022819 Paints traditional image of women https://padlet.com/s_courtney1/4mru8euqq1yl/wish/222023047 She becomes too weak to handle the stress. 
Faints
Eventually gives up]]> 2018-01-17 11:34:30 UTC https://padlet.com/s_courtney1/4mru8euqq1yl/wish/222023047