Lady Macbeth Manipulation Quotes

Shakespeare’s tragedy of Macbeth is all about power, manipulation, violence and greed. The main character is Macbeth, and Lady Macbeth is his wife. Lady Macbeth has a major role in the manipulation and violence part of it. Even though Macbeth is the person who does the killings, Lady Macbeth plays the role of a malefactor along with him. She underestimates Macbeth’s manhood (III. IV.60-62, I. VII.48-49), and if he refuses or overthinks a command that she says to him, Lady Macbeth’s trick to manipulate is to deride and tease Macbeth (I. VII.36-45). She says: “Letting ‘I dare not’ wait upon ‘I would,’ like the poor cat i' the adage?” (I. VII.45). Lady Macbeth knows that in order for her to become queen and for Macbeth to become king,

II.15-20). Here, we see that Macbeth is a hero for his braveness and that he has fought with the enemies. Early after that the three witches tell him and Banquo prophesies that makes him curios,” All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!” (I. III.50) is what the witch says. He doesn’t believe in them and their sayings, but afterwards when Ross comes and says that he is going to be thane of Cawdor (I. III,105-107), Macbeth is shocked. He sends a letter to Lady Macbeth, and she becomes aware of what has happened (I. IV.54-48, I.V.1-3). This is when the true story began. Lady Macbeth is the one who is anxious to become queen, and this desire is so much that she asks the gods take away her feminine emotions, and manipulates Macbeth to do what he doesn’t want to do. If Lady Macbeth was not so greedy and was satisfied with what she had, Macbeth would most likely have not killed King Duncan and he would not be a tragic hero. Macbeth let lady Macbeth to lead everything and did not stop her evil deeds, and what ended up happening is the death of himself and Lady Macbeth. Macbeth was a tragic hero because he was good at first and then his bad deeds ended up killing him, but lady Macbeth is not the tragic hero because she was not good at the first place. The minute she reads Macbeth’s letter she started planning to kill King Duncan to become queen, and was not contentment with being the wife of thane of Cawdor. She has a dark spirit, and does not care about people, not even her own husband. Lady Macbeth is not the tragic hero of Shakespeare’s tragedy of Macbeth. And Macbeth would not be a tragic hero if he either could have controlled Lady Macbeth’s greed or if she was not there at there at the first