How Is Lady Macbeth Loyal

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Macbeth the noble, loyal and brave Thane of Glamis, the traitorous Thane of Cawdor and the murderer of King Duncan. Lady Macbeth the cruel, ruthless and heartless instigator of the murder and the women who motivates her husband to gain Kingship through the most brutal and inhumane means. A loving yet cold hearted pair, Macbeth and his Lady plan, plot and execute murders to gain the Scottish crown. Along the way they show their eminent differences and underlying similarities. Through their cold heartedness both achieve the ambitious dreams that lie close to their hearts. Macbeth to be crowned and his wife to see him crowned. But out of the murders rises an overlying feeling which seemingly neither has the strength to combat, the remorseful pangs of conscience. Finally the pair overcome by their actions both, succumb to this powerful and yet unseen faculty. Macbeth is murdered and his Lady commits suicide. The traits which the pair exhibit during the play share a common similarity and sameness but, are manifest at different points throughout. Both share ambition, creed and a blood thirsty desire, and through their underlying love for each other, they both finally achieve these ambitions which eventually lead to their downfall.
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Lady Macbeth then plays on this ambition in order to motivate Macbeth to act. However, once he has acted Lady Macbeths ambition seems to decrease. It is almost as though having obtained her most important aim she seems to lose her ambition and it finally plummets into conscience. Macbeth’s ambition however, continues to rise and eventually turns him evil. So much so that his subsequent murders are no longer motivated by his wife but, rise out of his own ambition and a wish to see it manifest in the emplacement of an impregnable position that will hold him and his as Kings

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