it is particularly insidious when he continually urges him to shake off his torments. For example, in this scene from the play, Shakespeare gives the reader an idea of the twist he gives to his personality and how ruthless he can be: I have nursed, and know how tender it is to love the child that milks me: Would I, while I smiled in my face, tear my nipple from his boneless gums and smash his brains out, if I swore like you that I did this. (I, vii, 54-59).In the following examples you can see how he convinces Macbeth to ignore his torments for his guilt of...... middle of the paper......Shakespeare makes sure that the the reader realizes that she is different in her abilities and character. Lady Macbeth is the "iron butterfly" of the play. Works cited and consulted: Bevington, David, ed. "Macbeth." The complete works of Shakespeare. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1992Callaghan, Dympna. Woman and gender in Renaissance tragedy. Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press International, Inc., 1989Helsey, Catherine. The subject of Lady Macbeth. London: Methuen, 1985 Novy, Marianne. Love Argument: Gender Relations in Shakespeare. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1984Tiggins, Dennis. “Sexuality, Lady Macbeth, and Violence in Macbeth.” Studies in Shakespeare VII (1975) Ussher, Jane. The madness of women. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991

Topic > it is particularly insidious when he continually urges him to shake off his torments. For example, in this scene from the play, Shakespeare gives the reader an idea of the twist he gives to his personality and how ruthless he can be: I have nursed, and know how tender it is to love the child that milks me: Would I, while I smiled in my face, tear my nipple from his boneless gums and smash his brains out, if I swore like you that I did this. (I, vii, 54-59).In the following examples you can see how he convinces Macbeth to ignore his torments for his guilt of...... middle of the paper......Shakespeare makes sure that the the reader realizes that she is different in her abilities and character. Lady Macbeth is the "iron butterfly" of the play. Works cited and consulted: Bevington, David, ed. "Macbeth." The complete works of Shakespeare. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1992Callaghan, Dympna. Woman and gender in Renaissance tragedy. Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press International, Inc., 1989Helsey, Catherine. The subject of Lady Macbeth. London: Methuen, 1985 Novy, Marianne. Love Argument: Gender Relations in Shakespeare. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1984Tiggins, Dennis. “Sexuality, Lady Macbeth, and Violence in Macbeth.” Studies in Shakespeare VII (1975) Ussher, Jane. The madness of women. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991