In the book “Macbeth” by; William Shakespeare, left me with the question, is Lady Macbeth truly the reason that Macbeth’s driven to kill? Or is it all on him? Macbeth was a gleeful, untroubled individual. He never meant any harm, until his wife changed the ways of his future and caused him to go absolutely bonkers about becoming king of Scotland. His ways has changed throughout the story, and we can blame his wife, Lady Macbeth for that. Lady macbeth insulted his manhood, plans the actual murder, and doesn’t turn Macbeth in once things got “out of hand”. In act 1 scene 5, Lady Macbeth said “you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full / Of direst cruelty”. She is stating that she would kill the King of Scotland, Duncan, if she was a man. Throughout this scene Lady Macbeth is insulting Macbeth, calling him weak, and a coward. She’s trying to get him to prove her wrong. Lady Macbeth even tells Macbeth that if she wasn’t a lady she would kill Duncan herself. Macbeth is really pressured by his wife due to all of the insults she is precepting on to him. At this point, Macbeth is in a very bad …show more content…
He is now driven to kill, and has been killing anyone who gets in his way. His ways have changed and all he wants is to have power and become the King of Scotland. Lady Macbeth knew that her husband has taken things too far. She never told anyone who the killer was and she never helped her community. Lady Macbeth let her husband go insane due to her actions in the beginning and didn’t help him or didn’t warn anyone about his insanity as well. “Out, damned spot! Out I say!” Lady Macbeth started to feel guilty because she knows it’s her fault for Macbeth becoming who is turned into. She began to sleep walk and pretending that she was washing the blood of Duncan off of her hands. She had guilt written all over
She is still confident and is trying to stabilize Macbeth’s thoughts. Till this point she is not shown to be guilty of her act but confident. Gradually, as the play progresses we hear about Lady Macbeth’s condition from her maid, who says to a Doctor “Since his majesty went into the field, I have seen her rise/from her bed, throw her nightgown upon her, unlock her/closet, take forth paper, fold it, write upon 't, read it,/ afterwards seal it, and again return to bed, yet all this/while in most fall asleep” (V,I, 3-8). Then Lady Macbeth says while sleep walking “Out, damned spot!
She urges that he has a sickness and that sometimes he just has fits and that it will go away. We can understand that in her speech she is sad and uncomfortable but at the same time full of love not wanting her husband to give himself away. Lady Macbeth continues this behaviour until all of the guests have left and it is just the two of them. Now we see that it is just the two of them and that it is them against the world and although the odds seem impossible they try to fight through the guilt, the rumours, and try to continue their love, ruling and try to keep their secrets amongst each other. This functions the story to more of a evil power manner.
Lady Macbeth challenged Macbeth’s manliness in order to convince him to murder the King. “Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness, To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great.” (Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 3-5). Lady Macbeth is telling Macbeth that he is too nice and that although he could manage the Kings position he doesn’t have a mean streak in his body and that there is no way that he will step up and follow through with the killing of Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is very manipulative in her ways and how she convinces Macbeth to kill
She is the strong influence to brainwashed Macbeth to murder King Duncan with his own bare hands, so that all the blame would be pushed to Macbeth and not to her. It is really selfish in character but Macbeth should had stand up to his moral conscience and stop this immediately. He shows that Lady Macbeth was not a monstrous creature without any feeling however, we can see that she has authority over Macbeth himself, making him look like a weakling in front of the readers. led to the thought that Lady Macbeth was the main criminal as she thinks up all of her grand schemes and devious plans to kill King Duncan. She is a rather intriguing person, the person working behind in the darkness and her husband is easily manipulated and pushed around by her. She knows that if she didn't give Macbeth the final choice, moral integrity would kick him and he won't participate in her plans, so she is using emotional blackmail and threats to force Macbeth into immediate action. She wanted the throne that king Duncan is seating on, so she can be holding the highest authority and power over the whole
Lady Macbeth is such a vital and influential character in the play and is the primary reason why Macbeth murdered Duncan. To Macbeth, his only immediate family is Lady Macbeth and so to be distanced from Lady Macbeth would be painful for both of them. Since, Lady Macbeth is the only with whom Macbeth can talk to openly about the plans and what each of them are experiencing. For example, Lady Macbeth is shown to be manipulative in through the first part of the play through the following quote said by Macbeth “ I am settled, and bend up / Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. / Away, and mock the time with fairest show.
After Macbeth came back from Norway, he disclosed that he could someday become King, Lady Macbeth had plans of her own, and that someday would be in a day or two. I believe that Lady Macbeth was responsible for some, not all, but some of the crimes Macbeth had committed. I believe this because Lady Macbeth essentially made Macbeth kill King Duncan in the first place, Lady Macbeth doesn’t turn Macbeth into the authorities when the crimes incline to far more devious things, and Lady Macbeth threatens him when he doesn’t do as she says. By the end of the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, the people of Scotland overthrows Macbeth, after he gets crowned the King.
Because of this this soon led the end of their relationships. Lady Macbeth was the trigger to Macbeth murderous intent. Macbeth was like a robot that made to do one thing, but soon lost control from the master. Lady Macbeth would be considered the Master. Lady Macbeth strong personality eats her up in side as she too started to feel guilty.
Lady Macbeth’s first response to Macbeth’s letter; telling her about the witches’ prophecy, is to kill King Duncan. While Macbeth is hesitant at first, she does not fluctuate; not once, which shows how ruthless she is. Lady Macbeth does not care about the effect of her actions upon others, ultimately herself as well. When Macbeth questions her plan to kill the king she responds, “look like th’ innocent flower/but be the serpent under’t,” (Act 1.5). At this point, Lady Macbeth is only considering after herself, however, as the guilt starts to catch up to her, she begins to lose all sanity when she says, “out dammed spot!,” (Act 5.1) to something that isn’t even there-blood.
As the events escalate throughout the play, Lady Macbeth acts as the main drive for Macbeth's ambition. Lady Macbeth sees the potential power in Macbeth and is determined to become queen. She manipulates her husband and when he hesitates before committing the murder, she questions his manhood. "What beast was't then /That made you break this enterprise to me? /When you durst do it, then you were a man/And, to be more than what you were, you would /Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place /Did then adhere, and yet you wouldmake both: /They have made themselves, and that their fitness now /Does unmake you"(I.vii.28). She is manipulating Macbeth by saying he is not a man. Her ambition is so powerful she wishes she was a man so she could commit the crime herself. Lady Macbeth says, "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' (I.v.23). She longs to act like a man to kill Duncan. In the end this comes back to haunt her. Although Lady Macbeth has greater determination, she is unable to withstand the consequences of her acts. As the play progresses she is overcome with grief, leading her to kill herself. The power and ambition of Lady Macbeth ultimately leads to her own death. Through these events you see how power and ambition can be
She was a strong character at the beginning of the play, but towards the end of the scene scared and weak. Lady Macbeth admits in her sleep while she was sleepwalking, she help Macbeth kill Duncan by say: “Out, Damned spot! Out I Say! One, Two” (V.1.35). She had a blood stained in her hand that she was trying to get out.
She then exclaims that she must take on her masculine characteristics to murder the current king Duncan. She convinces Macbeth to continue with the scathing plan of murder when they receive the perfect opportunity having King Duncan as a guest in their own home. Lady Macbeth’s words “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!” (1.5.38–41) This quote portrays the gender role consequence she faces with the fact that she is willing to do the murderous deeds herself, which require her change from her nurturing body to
She was madly in love with her husband, but fell to her own demise. Macbeth couldn’t stay away from the greed for her burning ambition to be queen. Lady Macbeth persistently taunts her husband for his lack of courage. She would do anything and everything to become queen, and make her husband king of Scotland. Early in the play Lady Macbeth is presented as a committed wife who knows her husbands cons and believes she can help succeed to take over the kingdom. She then changes to an evil, demonic-like women when she calls on the evil spirits using language thats supernatural and death to lose her feminine nature. The third face of Lady Macbeth we see is a cunning and controlling wife who takes over and plans the murder of
She believed that King Duncan should be murdered to further the power and influence of herself and husband, but was worried that Macbeth would be too good to do the deed. The act of murder for Lady Macbeth seemed obvious and she was willing to do anything to become queen. The murder of Duncan was the thing that changed her, like Macbeth, except she started to change paradoxically to Macbeth. The first murder made her more cautious to the idea of murder then opposed to murder and finally to outright disgust with herself and the things Macbeth was doing. The coping process for Lady Macbeth was the total opposite of Macbeth’s because instead of becoming emotionless she became overwhelmed by feelings of guilt and regret.
In Act 1, Scene 5, from the second Lady Macbeth read Macbeth’s letter to her, King Duncan's life is imperiled. She expresses her idea to manipulate Macbeth into murder by saying, “Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear” (1.5.24-25). Lady Macbeth tells him to hurry home so she can make him believe regicide will be completely necessary for them to be royal. Lady Macbeth has the cruelty of a man, and every time Macbeth goes against her, or messes up, she insults his masculinity and gets him to do what she wants. In Act 1, Scene 7, Macbeth is starting to doubt that he can kill Duncan, he feels as if he doesn’t want to betray the trust Duncan has put into him, when he tells his wife about his doubts she emasculates him immediately, “When you durst do it, then you were a man” (1.7.54). Lady Macbeth makes him feel bad that he “promised her to be queen” and then has doubts. She even compares his ability to do a sexual act to his manliness. Every time Lady Macbeth makes Macbeth feel unmanly and small, he then allows himself to be molded by his wife. This allows Lady Macbeth to easily manipulate him to do her
Lady Macbeth motivates Macbeth into murdering of King Duncan. She in this case blackmails Macbeth by threatening his manhood. Lady Macbeth states, “When you dare do the deed, you were a man.” (Macbeth. 1.7. 50-51). Lady Macbeth is remarking to Macbeth that if he does this murderous deed, he will again be considered a man. She wants the power more in this case, but yet does not want to do it herself. She relies on Macbeth to make sure he does the dirty work, while she orchestrates the whole murder. Therefore, this leads to a line full of blood, greed, and power.