PEC Shakespeare - Respuesta a la PEC del curso 2019-20 con una nota de 7 puntos PDF

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Respuesta a la PEC del curso 2019-20 con una nota de 7 puntos...

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Recepción Crítica del Teatro de Shakespeare - PEC Andrés Sánchez Rivilla - Sevilla 1. In this scene we can see Lady Macbeth's mental ruin for the crimes that she and her husband have committed. In the fragment Lady Macbeth interrupts a conversation between a gentlewoman and the doctor by entering sleepwalking while carrying a candle. Lady Macbeth is repeating the words that she said to Macbeth after killing King Duncan in act 2. After that, the doctor is worried about Lady Macbeth and gives the gentlewoman some advice for Lady Macbeth's safety. 2. In those lines Lady Macbeth clearly addresses her husband. She repeats the idea that she had in 2.2, when she told Macbeth to wash his hands after murdering King Duncan and go to bed. 3. In this fragment Lady Macbeth feels doomed because of her hands as she tries to wash them to erase the evidence of the crimes that she made her husband commit. Hand as a symbol of human good and human evil: in the first act the word "hand" is meant to be a figure of justice and respect between Macbeth and King Duncan; this meaning, however, will be replaced later on the play and will acquire a sense of weapon and guilt for both Macbeth and his wife, to the point that it is later informed that Lady Macbeth lost her life by means of her own hand. 4. There is a parallelism between Lady Macbeth's lines in this fragment and the porter's speech in 2.3. The similitude between both characters is the prose they use in their speeches. The porter uses prose to make evidence of his lack of education when they speak. When it comes to Lady Macbeth, she is forced to use prose due to the madness she is suffering from. In the play (as in some other plays, such as A Midsummer Night's Dream) Shakespeare uses prose and rhyme as a sign of the social level of the different characters. Although Lady Macbeth is a noble character, the author uses the prose for her last lines to show her mental instability. 5. With these statements the doctor witnesses Lady Macbeth's madness. After observing her in the conversation with the gentlewoman, the doctor thinks that Lady Macbeth has a spiritual problem and needs the help from God better than his help as a doctor. In the last statement the doctor tells the gentlewoman to look after Lady Macbeth to prevent her from hurting herself by any means....