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  • Essay / Characterization of Lady Macbeth - 1106

    When her panicked husband looks at her bloody hands after killing King Duncan and forgets to leave the daggers next to the dead Duncan, Lady Macbeth puts the daggers in the right place and returns with the same pair of bloody hands without fear. Additionally, during the banquet, when Macbeth has the illusion that Banquo's ghost was sitting in his place and stumbles to the ground saying nonsense words, Lady Macbeth feels so embarrassed that she takes her husband aside and shouts at him : “Are you a man? This scene reminds me of the plot of The Glass Menagerie, in which Amanda forces Laura to open the door for Jim and Tom. Macbeth, like Laura, is too fragile to face the crucial consequences of taking power; and Lady Macbeth, as Macbeth's parent, pushes her husband to grow up as a