Lady Macbeth Research Paper

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The nature of kingship can be expressed in the theory of the divine right of kings. “As James I writes, kings “sit upon God his throne in the earth and have the count of their administration to give unto him”.” “When Macbeth and Lady Macbeth murder Duncan, then, the England of James I would recognize this act as a rebellion against God and therefore as a perversion of the natural order. Their perversion of nature is reflected throughout the play; in Lady Macbeth’s ambiguous and anomalous gender, in the changes wrought in the landscape, in the sickness that begins to grip the couple’s minds, until finally the symbolic uprising of the land itself against their tyrannical rule restores the natural order that they have upset.” “Malcolm becomes