Let's deep-dive a particular moment from William Shakespeare's Macbeth - what does it teach us about the character he created and the world he created that character for?

Act I, Scene v:
Lady Macbeth:
The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry 'Hold, hold!'

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Images:
Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, painted by John Singer Sargent in 1889, from her performance at the Lyceum (opening December 1888)

Jeanette Nolan, Lady Macbeth (1948)

Vivian Leigh, Lady Macbeth (1955)

Judy Dench, Lady Macbeth (1979)

Kate Fleetwood, Lady Macbeth (2010 – staged 2007)

Quoted texts:
William Shakespeare's "Macbeth", Act V, Scene i, Lines 36-52. Edition: The Norton Shakespeare; Second International Student edition (28 Mar. 2008)

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