Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5 Language Analysis

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Shakespeare uses a range of techniques during Act 1 Scene 5 of ‘Macbeth’. The techniques include his choice of words and the structuring of the play, and make an impact on what is effective to the audience. Throughout Act 1 Scene 5, Shakespeare uses a range of metaphors to make an effect on how Lady Macbeth is presented. Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as a passionate woman with an understanding of the world beyond her home and love life; a typically unusual thing for women who lived in the 17th Century, as most women had been isolated from the outside world.
Lady Macbeth was known as a Catholic woman. The fact that she had called upon evil spirits to “unsex [her] here”, to “fill [her] from the crown to the toe top-full / Of direst cruelty”