Disturbed Characters

Though, the reasons of being forlorn are contrasting. Salome is aware of her loneliness and the fact that she was involved in many one night stands:

"I'd done it before (and doubtless I'll do it sooner or later)"

The reason of Havisham's spinster state is that she was deserted by her fiancé - she is not wanted anymore. Both ladies are exposing in the poem their feelings towards men. Havisham, has assorted emotions concerning her ex-fiancé, which she expresses in an oxymoron; "Beloved sweetheart bastard"

In my opinion, Salome doesn't really embark herself in a nonsexual relationship - she rather enjoys the enticement of physical intimacy. She doesn't even remember the name of the man, who slept in her bed all night. “Woke up with a head on the pillow beside me - whose? - what did it matter?"

Lady M v Havisham

The play Macbeth was set in Elizabethan times, where there was a patriarchal society in which men were superior to women. Women were known by their husbands’ names and were seen more as their husbands’ property than their partners. Elizabethan women were treated badly and disobedience on their behalf was a crime against religion as the society of that time believed that women were made to serve men. However, it was also believed that women were incapable of having evil thoughts or committing devilish crimes. The character of Lady Macbeth goes entirely against the typical Elizabethan woman as she is portrayed as strong and controlling over her husband Macbeth, and is the one to persuade him to commit an act of regicide. This would be shocking to an Elizabethan audience as regicide was known as the worst possible thing you could do, as they believed that their monarchs were sent from God. Miss Havisham is also the opposite of what women in her society were like; she was a spinster. This meant she was seen as a failure as in Victorian times, a woman’s proper purpose was to suitably marry; it was what they were born for

Lady Macbeth degenerates from...