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Jun 15, 2021 · In a famous scene from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the sleep-walking Lady Macbeth desperately attempts to scrub her hands clean of the (invisible) blood stains from the murders committed by her and her husband. “Out, damned spot, out, I say!” she says, as her gentlewoman and a doctor secretly observe. “What, will these hands ne’er be clean
Lady Macbeth is a timeless, tragic heroine who should be cherished not scorned. "It's unhelpful to portray her as wicked or to suggest that because she hasn't got a child she's, in some ways ...
- Hanna Flint
During former United States President Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign for the American presidency, Daniel Wattenberg's August 1992 The American Spectator article "The Lady Macbeth of Little Rock", [8] and some twenty other articles in major publications drew comparisons between his wife and Lady Macbeth, [9] questioning Hillary Clinton's ideological and ethical record in comparison to Shakespeare ...
Macbeth Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most famous and frightening female characters. When we first see her, she is already plotting Duncan’s murder, and she is stronger, more ruthless, and more ambitious than her husband. She seems fully aware of this and knows that she will have to push Macbeth into committing murder.
Jul 11, 2024 · The meta-commentary that runs through the play asks us to embrace a new trajectory for Lady Macbeth, but seems unresolved in its delivery and tone. The play sets up big questions but falls short ...
When that career involves being President of the United States, as it does in a number of vivid case studies in this readable and quotable book, from Abigail and John Adams to Hillary and Bill Clinton, opposition propaganda and Shakespearean drama join forces to haunt the popular imagination with the ultimate specter of illegitimate government - the sexually manipulative yet paradoxically ...
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LADY MACBETH: To bed, to bed: there’s knocking at the gate. Come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What’s done cannot be undone. – To bed, to bed, to bed! The knocking Lady Macbeth imagines she hears recalls the actual knocking at the gate when Macduff arrived at the Macbeths’ castle, just after Macbeth murdered Duncan.
