With the possible exception of King Lear, no character in any of Shakespeare's plays undergoes such a radical devolution as that which transforms Lady Macbeth from a nearly superhuman character in the first act of Macbeth into a sleep-walking zombie at the start of Act V. When we first see Lady Macbeth on stage, she is plainly in command of her faculties and, in fact, she has deliberately intensifher capacity to realize her royal ambitions …
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…Macbeth disappears from the play. " shakepeare's women are no mere slaves or subordinates. they are characters in thier own right; they influence other characters and by so doing influence the plot; they have dreams and ambitions; they are capable of sin and guilt, as well as joy ans love; they, like men, can become tragic figures" with specific references to scenes and events in the play, discuss how much of this is true for lady