Macbeth and Disturbed Character

Explore the ways in which Shakespe argon and Robert browning present a disturbed char twister in literacy heritage texts. Robert browning and Shakespeare twain accustom in truth self-colored techniques when presenting their lawsuits in the heritage texts Macbeth and the laboratory In this essay I will be exploring the ways in which Browning and Shakespeare some(prenominal) show disturbed characters. Disturbed characters meaning out of the ordinary, Browning and shakes spear present their characters without following stereotypes. This gives the audience the impression that the characters are disturbed.The play Macbeth features many homes ambition, jealousy, strength precisely the main theme in this play would be feminism. Macbeth is a play written around the ambition of a woman named Lady Macbeth she and her husband converge spirits who tell her she shall be queen. Lady Macbeth acts really lovesomely on this fantasy, and swiftly contacts the spirits to change her into a mor e masculine figure. Shakes spear uses genuinely strong language to show this transformation, he presents Lady Macbeth as a very strong, ambitious character in the first half of the play.We can behold evidence of this when he writes take my milk for gall. In the play lady Macbeth changes everything she believes in and breaks every stereotype in historical context roughly women in order to commit the murder of Duncan. This is ironic because later in the play lady Macbeth has achieved the status she wants as queen, alone does not have authority of herself evidence of this is in act 5 scene 1 when Shakespeare writes when was the last epoch she walked her eyes are openBut their sense is shut this tells us she sleep walks and does not have control over her body physically, furthermore lady Macbeth does not have control over her mental state all(prenominal) evidence of this is when Shakespeare writes look, how she rubs her hands this suggest the doctor cannot see the blood on her h ands. Further evidence of this is theres knocking on the gate this tells us Lady Macbeth is hearing things in her head and is conscious of people finding out what she has done.The poem the laboratory is much like Macbeth with themes of jealousy, ambition, strength, respect and the main theme of feminism. The laboratory is a poem written in the 1800s about a woman names Marie who seeks revenge on her cheating husband and the separate women involved Pauline, she plans to poison Pauline. Browning presents Marie as a very ambitious character throughout the entire poem, we know she is ambitious because Browning writes tucker out at thy powder and to carry pure death in an earring he uses very fragmented, violent speech for Marie, make her seem like a very strong, ambitious character.The play was written in the 1800s and is themed around historical context, this makes the poem ironic because women were expected to have a lot of respect for each other and work together because they all had equally no rights. This is ironic because Pauline shows no respect for Maries marriage in the first place, but then Marie carries this on by showing no sympathy or respect for Pauline and takes her life. Shake spear and browning both use strong language techniques to portray disturbed characters in there texts.Both use fragmented speak and repeating key phases, there are many examples of this in Macbeth act 5 scene 1 when Shakespeare writes come ,come, come and to bed, to bed. In this scene lady Macbeth also talks in a very quick and short manner this gives the impression that her mind is very jumbled furthermore this could imply she has a lot to say but not enough time to say it all. This then portrays her as a disturbed character. In the laboratory browning uses repetition to portray Marie as disturbed character. Examples are her head, her breast and her blazon. Browning also uses very dark and devilish speech in his poem.Examples of this are devils smithy empty church pure d eath in an earring apply language like this at the start of the poem gives the entire poem a devilish feel, it could also symbolise what Marie is thinking, she only thinks evil things this then personation her as a disturbed character. This language makes the audience aware that the poem is full of sinister and evil things. Macbeth and the laboratory have very similar themes. They are very much the same in the terms feminism and use of context. Both women in the texts going against ordinary acts of women in that period, this making them disturbed.Furthermore both women are also fighting for power, lady Macbeth is fighting to achieve her status as queen where as Marie is fighting for power in her marriage, this also makes them similar because they both end up in a broken relationship in the end. Both texts are set in similar settings the laboratory is set in a dark devils workshop and Macbeth is set in a dark room on a dark night, this giving the audience a very dark and sinister f eeling about the texts. Lady Macbeth and Marie are very different in the way of the emotions and feeling.Firstly in Macbeth lady Macbeth tell the audience her thoughts and feelings making her seem open and fair(prenominal) even though she had asked the spirits to unsex herself. Whereas Marie did not show any true feminine emotions. Marie does not feel misdeed and says towards the end of the poem next moment I dance at the kings and brush this dust off me this shows that she does not feel guilt and has no declension in her doings. However half of Macbeth features lady Macbeth after she has killed and she feels deep remorse, there is evidence of this when she says the thane of fife had a wife, where is she now?.As the audience we also see more unstated evidence of this when lady Macbeth says yet heres a spot this presenting lady Macbeth as disturbed because she has gone insane from the guilt. I think both pieces of text were influenced very strongly through the writers present con text this is why both of the characters are portrayed as disturbed in the text. They are portrayed as disturbed because women were generally meant to be meek and mild, but Shakespeares and Brownings presentation of their characters go completely against the contexts and the expectations of women at the time.In conclusion I think lady Macbeth and Marie are both very disturbed characters, but I believe Marie is a more disturbed character because she does not feel guilt or remorse towards the end of the poem. The laboratory also features a lot more sinister text and the writing expressive style is a lot shorter and quick making Marie seam more disturbed. More evidence to make Marie seem disturbed would be because Marie does not require athletic supporter from the spirits to make her more masculine. She does it all in her own head and does not require help from anyone else is the poem, she does not show any true feminine emotions or feeling in the poem.