• Lady Macbeth Nature is the omnipotent • Transgenders, incantation, - La Belle voice – pathetic fallacy Lady Macbeth Protected, Submissive, ‘fourth witch’, suicide, insane, ‘Unsex ‘Tis said they ate each other’ apologetic me here and fill me crown to the – Inversion of nature ‘Be innocent of the knowledge ,my toetop full of direst cruelty.’ ‘Owl shrieked and cricket cry.’ dearest chuck.’ • ‘Out damn Spot!.’ ‘darkness doth the face of the ‘My lord has often been thus.’ • ‘The queen my lord is dead.’ earth entomb.’ ‘Gracious hostess.’ ‘Look to the lady.’ Witches Evidence of Pathetic Fallacy – (environme Portrayal of • Violent, Supernatural, Transcend theirreflects protagonists’ views) – Could Lady Macduff Protective of her son, remit, Sexually promiscuous connangry God commenting on disorder Loyal to king, • ‘How did you dare…to trade and traffic with Macbeth.’ Women ‘Do I put up that womanly defence?’ ‘Poor Wren.’ • ‘Finger of birth strangled babe.’ • ‘lips of Turk.’ • ‘Drain him dry as hay.’ – Conclusion: Differing Contexts of Receipt – audiences • Lady Macduff Flippant, lacks maternal Jacobean Audience - Imfluenced by James 1 – seeming protection, jokes about promiscuity misogyny – ‘Daeomnologie’ – witchcraft – witchcraft trials – • ‘I can buy me twenty at any market.’ open homosexuality undermines his token wife. • Your father is dead 21st century audience - might interpret women as not • He was a traitor.’ transgressive, but a brave, independent, Feminist Reading.
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