When Lady Macbeth opens, it appears to be a kind of 12 Years a Slave for the domestic oppression of women during the 19th century; an honest and bleak demonstration of the cruel inhumanity to which women were subjected even within the sacred bond of marriage. Our focal character, Katherine, is a purchased wife in a loveless marriage to a wealthy and much older man. He routinely neglects her and shows her no interest, and when he
Lady Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
When Lady Macbeth opens, it appears to be a kind of 12 Years a Slave for the domestic oppression of women during the 19th century; an honest and bleak demonstration of the cruel inhumanity to which women were subjected even within the sacred bond of marriage. Our focal character, Katherine, is a purchased wife in a loveless marriage to a wealthy and much older man. He routinely neglects her and shows her no interest, and when he