When her panicked husband looks at his bloody hands after killing King Duncan and forgets to leave the daggers next to the dead Duncan, Lady Macbeth puts the daggers back in the right place and he comes back with the same pair of bloody hands without fear. Furthermore, during the banquet, when Macbeth has the illusion that the ghost of Banquo was sitting in his place and stumbles to the ground while saying those nonsensical words, Lady Macbeth feels so embarrassed that she takes her husband aside and shouts to him: " It's you?" a man?" This scene reminds me of the plot of The Glass Menagerie, in which Amanda forces Laura to open the door for Jim and Tom. Macbeth, as Laura, is too fragile to face the crucial consequence of taking power; and Lady Macbeth, as Macbeth's parent, pushes her husband to grow up as a
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