#anyway….. the modern reading of lady m as sympathetic because she only wants what’s best for her husband is correct imo | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

devilsskettle · 10 months

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thinking about the way that lady macbeth convinces macbeth to kill duncan and yeah she talks about power and cowardice and what he owes to himself and to her, but at the heart of the whole thing is how their child died and she has nothing else to pin her hopes for the future on. unfortunately the fact that they no longer have an heir is also the driving force behind macbeth’s violent paranoia toward banquo which ultimately dooms them

#like the last thing she does before he agrees to go through with the murder is invoke the loss of her motherhood #that’s what gives him the push. i could scream. it’s evil because they both think they’re doing it for the other person #and how could their relationship NOT fall apart after that honestly? how can you do that for someone and not grow to resent it?#and the fact that we have no details except that she must have had a child at some point if she’s able to nurse a child #and the fact that the matter of children and childbearing is so fraught in the play #oh my god. i could tear off all my skin thinking about it #AND that he kills macduff’s infant son in cold blood…. fucked up #anyway….. the modern reading of lady m as sympathetic because she only wants what’s best for her husband is correct imo #but when you consider this context it becomes even more so because he is her entire family now #due to the mundane perversion of a child dying before their parents #that’ll fuck you up. god forbid women do anything #macbeth

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