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Analyzing Lady Macbeth's Ambition and Power

hi guys welcome to your careers 9 analysis of Lady Macbeth's in preparation for your English literature arguably an lni exam this is only to focus on individual words in terms of heating and the grid 9 please pause the video where necessary because sometimes I can talk quickly and we need to look at judicious quotations there's obvious court agents or sleep or Lady Macbeth we have to make sure that our analysis is better than everybody else's now I'm going to start with this court often gets missed I'm taunting but I've Lady Macbeth read my friends 11 you can argue that that is the use of the pen because obviously their relationships gonna disintegrate quotation or once she's finished the letter is buy Lettuce transported me beyond this ignorant present and and i now feel the future in the incident okay so this is gonna be an example paragraph so pause the video if you need it well basically we've got a lot of key words we don't want to see you leave my best evil everybody's gonna see it so if we can get in terms like my chameleon and villain s then again it's a heightened answer if unique there was spinach Mac aphelion and doom sword but basically you're going to get something like she's funny now her for much like Macbeth things our tragic people is that they are both excessively ambitious now the problem in terms of that is that they defy the great chain of being that's equal next if you haven't done the great chain of being there's a video on my channel with that essentially it's an order goddess at the top then the angel then mnemonics family humans and then obviously all the way down from animals of your plants you don't disrupt that order so when Lady Macbeth Macbeth do try to tear the piece of a monic them is a problem and they need to be punished and they are punished by your death now to the court you wanna look at things like transported because there's a suggestion there that the supernatural prophecies of the witches haven't moved home in terms of ambition physically moved to mentally and morally and also beneath the surface though again for that deeper meaning and look at your lexical field of time future instant and to present as a desperation for Lady Macbeth you know that there's something missing in your life a child she's looking for validation somewhere else unfortunately she looks for it through the crown she speaks in the iambic pentameter in Apple and c5 at one scene 752 and the banquet then she speaks in prose at the end again everybody's going to see that we need a reason for that I thought intensifies the influence of the witches it's up to interpretation some critics argue but actually because of her language being supernatural when she says things like um spirits and tend on mortal thoughts unsex me here that she is a witch herself such a good a good interpretation but again and look at that key word that the examiners got a lot because it's a different interpretation there's a juxtaposition in present and future and that is the two personalities of Lady Macbeth's it is the conscious subconscious as well it's there leading Macbeth who has a little bit of power now but it's all a fundamental all the fear and we have the lead one with an axe I've seen one subquantum souther who's weak mentally weak and we see her real thoughts coming alive so again what you've got to think about Isis in insecurity there the Institute is at this current time I'm a childless wife to the sword of Macbeth in the future I'm a queen so again paws up and if you need a lot of information make next one again tree Court everybody's going to pick it what do we see too full of the milk of human kindness and onset make er than Emma turned up to full of the men of human kindness remember is an obvious explanation and it's that she knows he's a weak always too kind to disrupt the Christian faith because he's loyal to King Duncan but again we've got to start thinking well she's criticizing his masculinity which would be frowned upon energy could be in society but then who's gonna call further look at your noun milk now milk we associate with with the breast breastfeeding child nurturing the child the one thing that she can't do so once again at food whilst it it tends to show us his weakness it's actually reflecting hers as well and it's that voice of the childless Lady Macbeth which comes from the references of having put the nipple from it's all his gums and dash'd the brains out and she we know defies anything feminine wants rid of her genitals which you're going to come to in unsex me here and unsex me here links to this idea that he's not got milk off his mother it's me a week I can't have the breast I can't have and any other thing that's associated phenol unsex me here is one more to do now to listen because again simple court therefore have an obvious explanation she is demanded it is an imperative okay it is an imperative she is demanded not a spirits because she's addressing the witches here on sector we move their femininity now what you want to start thinking about is what's disturbing to obviously but it jumps to pauses come to my woman's breast and take my milk for goal because that juxtaposes a milk of Macbeth so let me just explain that again we've got the image of Macbeth full of milk equals kindness we've got an empty leading Macbeth full of ball which equals something cunning something like a billion and see that the two are in conflict with one another and actually been a relationship remember it's good into simply wait until she becomes a spectator at the banquet where he is in fact more powerful and again this is still um sex because there's a lot to see it's obviously we need to take that symbolic because the physical description of it is straightforward it's a reminder of chupa lose the boundary of gender it reminds us of the things you can't do which is to bear children problem being nice the prophecies have said that one who was children will succeed so there's the next reminder that her power has a limit she can't have the children her children will therefore never succeed but one who was will and she looked so validation also was just said unfortunately for who is the crown and remember were reminded of the loss of the childhood I have given sock it's past tense it's already come who assume child as being lost okay next one chastising at the bottom of my talk again RIA portation love it what do we see literally okay we take a bit really which is always a good place to start terms of the exam then she's confessing that she's persuasive again brilliant secret we've got to be better than none you've got to go deal with you mean nothing the obstruct now on Bala juxtaposes the verb chastised again literally chastise means to correct to punish like a reprimand so we as a read I've got to be asking ourselves or what is she correcting the kindness that Macbeth has just correcting it so that he will commit the murder what is he reprimanded him for not being ambitious to kill the king and unfortunately you could essentially argue that the witches and Lady Macbeth are driving forces for this over ambition they have to spur him on again he's reprimanded buying her which we don't expect and I take you to society and again it's the power we've got a power balance or imbalance it's really not about that it's my faith which will inevitably swap and she becomes a pointless insignificant woman Oh guys massive value be the most famous meeting Macbeth quotation and everybody knows it even be dad out damn spot again is an obvious explanation watching the broad the guilt we've got any better so how are we better the relationship has now disintegrated so as it's just disintegrated she is isolated she is powerless she's mumble an odd wandered around the castle speaking in prose remember the only Shakespearean protagonist in a tragedy to die speaking improve highlight infer in significance now she's suffering she feels guilty absolutely should thinks this blood on our hands of God we need to be better we need to see that this is the true Lady Macbeth so when I mentioned earlier there's two of her this is the real one subconscious we've tucked into everything actually that she does think being a five had a wife wherever she not the confession of everything that they've done it's to all sort a payment versus reality in the earliest things she mentions the false peace has mentioned the serpent in the flower of engine now it's none of that it's none of this metaphorical language and she's mumble or not and her sentence if you look closely a highly fragmented punctuation hesitating she's vulnerable we know what and she's mentally unstable there sorry one steel and she's starting to now question morally her own actions borne further this is the elaborate ruses you breathing stuff out is an imperative connectors to the where she shot in Paris that the witches come tend on mortal mortal thoughts unsex me here desperate again it means her desperation for power now to rare desperation to not feel guilty not feel remorse by the blood to be off their hands so you've got the impervious the prose as I've said she was this massive downfall of Lady Macbeth remember the oil sheiks think of it character to die like that but we also want the adjective damned because it's religious for us as well now if you are damned in religion it is eternal it's forever you are being punished and reprimanded for something you've done which in this instance the Lady Macbeth is sinan what has she done defied the greedy and a billion by stepping up of her rule okay you could argue just being punished as well for the the unsexy at the time in society which would have been highly uncommon as I said eternal punishment again think about a biblical reference there the fact that she because she doesn't repent his sins then she's doomed by higher powers this is on all of my videos because I do think it's a key point and I've mentioned it by building Amina to read this bit - you bought what you can mentioning is I don't make plain time and remember did I did I did I did it abdominal abdominal Shakespeare created based on syllables it's up and down it's up and down potentially argue that you're speaking like that the beginning is certainly forewarning of she is unstable and again the idea that she died speaking imposes hugely significant in the sense that assures her in significance and mr. conscience is coming into clinic and last quote I'm gonna look at is obvious again look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it we've got to be careful here not seeing the obvious excuse me its appearance person to reality she is duplicitous hardware to see if you can get that as in two different things innocence serpent you want the Bible here okay you also not only do we want the Bible here we want Adam and Eve in the Bible because the servant is linked to temptation Eve was tempted by the servants to eat the apple all of mankind are then polished their behavior so again the serpent that she speaks of is her she is going to punish herself in Macbeth by defying order also and this is what a lot of kids will miss it's directly linked to guide folks and the good power of God what was happening when Shakespeare decided to write the play so essentially when they tried to kill King James the first and they were unsuccessful he rewarded and people that that founded up with a coin and on the coin there is a flower with a serpent underneath it so again we've got that idea is that you do not commit regicide you do not try and kill the money because he will be punished in this instance obviously we know anyone who dies Macbeth is going to die again or that cruelty is detailed in both of my core the Lady Macbeth videos this is again for your and your career now remember Eve temptation Lady Macbeth is tempted to royalty and potentially the lesson there is that we shouldn't be tempted to things that aren't necessarily I was ethically or morally and this was just three eight nine there's obviously loads of other things you can see about Lady Macbeth there's poor spirits in my ear and there's a lot of parties I just want to do a couple of judicious ones please pause the video where you need and if you need to anything else please for on my youtube channel just type in my name it's a whole penis on my first poori is with 210 videos and must have good look in your English literature exam