The Importance Of Trust And Irony In Shakespeare's Macbeth

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Trust and honesty make up a marriage and shared experiences and secrets help to construct the belief that marriage unites two people in a unique way. In the elizabethan era to move up the socioeconomic ladder women marry up and the way to continue to move up, the couple functions as a team. To effectively work as a team couples must speak honestly with one another in matters, objectifying every word, feature, and motion of their mate. In William Shakespeare’s Elizabethan tragedy, Macbeth, Shakespeare emphasizes trust and honesty through the motif of marriage to recognize that people 's’ trust and honesty allows for exposure of their faults.
Closeness in marriage allows for faults to appear and truths to reveal themselves. Shakespeare writes …show more content…

Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth his faults so that he may correct them. After Lady Macbeth read the letter from Macbeth she says to herself, “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor and shalt be What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ human kindness…” (I.V.15-17). Shakespeare chooses to make Macbeth sound sensible. Stating Macbeth is “full o’ human kindness” defines Macbeth as a person who cares (I.V.17). Shakespeare writes of Macbeth as a ruler with heart who cares, but presents it as Lady Macbeth stating Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth his faults so that he may correct them. Shakespeare makes Lady Macbeth out as a wife unblinded by the fact that Macbeth and her share a name; Lady Macbeth sees Macbeth and all of his flaws. As Shakespeare characterizes Lady Macbeth he chooses to create a strong-willed woman who wants to take hold of her marriage and does so by telling Macbeth his faults and how to improve upon them to further herself. After Macbeth changes his mind on killing more to rise to power, Lady Macbeth asks him, “Was the hope drunk Wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?” (I.VII.39-0) To question if he has left his dream of gaining all potential power and given up. Shakespeare intended to question whether or not Macbeth makes the noble choice by questioning him through Lady Macbeth. Shakespeare means to characterize Lady Macbeth as a wife who craves power by having her ask her husband to reconsider not going through with killing those in power for a rise of their

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