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What impression does Lady Macbeth's speech give you about her character?

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She is coldhearted, cruel and very ambitious.

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She is coldhearted, cruel, and very ambitious.

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Lady Macbeth is one of the main characters of the tragedy Macbeth, written by the English playwright William Shakespeare. She is the wife of the protagonist, the Scottish nobleman Macbeth. After convincing him to kill King Duncan, the couple Macbeth becomes king and queen of Scotland, but she ends up severely tormented by guilt.

Although she does seem consumed bu guilt in the end, she does have several cold hearted lines:

"Come, you spirits/That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,/And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full/Of direst cruelty" (act 1, scene 5).

Look like th' innocent flower,/ But be the serpent under't" (Act 1, scene 5)

"Wouldst thou have that/Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,/And live a coward in thine own esteem,/Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would, '/Like the poor cat i' th' adage?" (act 1, scene 7)

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