Nick Starr Mr. Allen LA IV 6/6/2016 Manipulation of Lady Macbeth Some people say that it is men who rule the world, but without women men would not be able to rule. Lady Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most known and frightening female characters. Without Lady Macbeth, Macbeth would have never carried out the bad things that he had did. She was considered to be Macbeth conscious, the other half of Macbeth. In Macbeth’s times women had no say. Women during these times had it worse than the women in the 19 century. Women were considered weak and worthless. The only role that they had was to look good and give birth. Unlike most women Lady Macbeth shows more power than Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is the biggest influence on Macbeth action. Because …show more content…
She was seen as ambitious because of her action. She stunned the people of the audience by her character. She was a strong and powerful woman who is careless towards life. Macbeth placed his fate in the witches based upon the prophesies that they place upon Macbeth. Lady Macbeth finds out about the prophesies and then she decides to do what it takes to make it come true. She then starts the journey to power. Lady Macbeth is well aware of what she has to do to get power. “Glamis thou art, and Cowador, and shalt be/ What thou art promised.” She knows that she knows that she must kill to get the power that she thirsts for. Macbeth is weak in the beginning of the play. He is doubtful towards the killing of Duncan so he can become king. Lady Macbeth starts her manipulative powers on Macbeth. She questions his manhood and the courage he does not have. She says that their love for each means nothing. The things she says towards Macbeth to make him change his mind shows how much power Lady Macbeth has towards Macbeth. It shows that Lady Macbeth can be really manipulative and wise because of how she talked down on Macbeth’s confidence. She talks about the confidence he does not have, abilities, and questioned the manhood. She knew that because of how weak Macbeth was Lady Macbeth knew that she would be able to have her way with Macbeth. Because of the pressure that she placed on Macbeth he is left feeling like he …show more content…
Later in the scenes Macbeth becomes a mad dog who can’t be controlled. Lady Macbeth starts to lose control over Macbeth because of this Macbeth stronger than her. Macbeth starts killing more characters in the play that did not needed to be killed. It first started off with the murder of Duncan. This started the downfall of Macbeth. 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. She knows what she has done and is haunted by. Because of this she has blood on her hands. She starts sleep walking in attempt to remove the blood that is own her hands. But the thing was is that she never had blood on her hands, was because of her insanity that made her think she had blood on her hands. From this the audience knows that she feels guilty. The audience can also tell she is becoming weaker. She tries supernatural things to make the guilt go away, but is unable to escape the guilt she
Lady Macbeth begins the play as a strong power hungry women. She will do anything to make her husband, Macbeth a king. In act one the idea of him becoming a king is put her into her head because Macbeth meets three witches who profises him becoming king one day. Lady Macbeth comes up with a plan. “That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements.
She cunningly controls and belittles Macbeth so he will do whatever she believes it takes to get the crown. Knowing Macbeth innocent nature, she insults him enough that he forgets his decision to be loyal to the
Lady Macbeth’s vicious drive and ambition is made acutely clear in this quote. Lady Macbeth, unlike Macbeth, is not afraid of what she must do to acquire power. She has far greater strength than her husband, in the beginning of the play at least, and she never hesitates on her path to success. Unlike Macbeth, she needs no supernatural powers to urge her on. She remains calm in the face of danger if it is what is necessary to achieve her goals, such as when she returned the daggers to Duncan’s chamber after Macbeth killed him.
Lady Macbeth finally has her nervous breakdown as she has the habit of sleepwalking every night, crying out "Out, damned spot, out, I say!... What, will these hands ne'er be clean?/ Here's the smell of blood still. All/ The perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little/ Hand. O! O!O!"
2. Sub-point A2 (Reason - one specific aspect that further explains T.S.): Lady Macbeth takes the prophecy she was told about and suggests she is willing to do anything to make it a reality proving furthermore her ambition. By fate or will, she is determined to make the prophecy come true. She wants to become queen alongside her husband as king.
The demise of the events that happened was because of a power-hungry woman named Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth manipulation of Macbeth disoriented Macbeth. In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, it states: “Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life / And live a coward. (I.vii.46-47). Her words have an effect on him for the worse.
Macbeth murdered a lot of people with the help of his wife Lady Macbeth in order to get the crown. In the story line, Lady Macbeth is the one who initiates murder and therefor seems to be more evil. Lady Macbeth initiates murder by questioning
Women are seen as weak or powerless compared to men. Macbeth shows these gender roles but also shows how the women hold more power then men think. Lady Macbeth holds all of the power to Macbeth’s decisions early on in the play and manipulates him constantly. The witches hold power over Macbeth because when they tell him about his future or warn him, they can get him to do things that he never thought about doing in the first place. Even Lady Macduff is portrayed as more of a man then her own husband, Macduff.
She is thoroughly a cold hearted and an utterly unscrupulous women. In the beginning, her seemingly fearless and powerful undefeatable character soon taken over by guilt as the play progress, and she is “consumed by the demons within her”. Lady Macbeth is the dominant power at the beginning of the play, she persuades Macbeth to achieve his goal and plans the murder of Duncan. Lady Macbeth does play a substantial role in the downfall of her husband. She is a highly manipulative, ambitious character, similarly Macbeth is as
She continues to be the dominant character in her relationship with Macbeth. She uses her own ambition as persuasion to influence Macbeth to kill Duncan, and is trying to make Macbeth come to the realization that he deserves to be king. Macbeth struggles being overwhelmed with ambition and self doubt. He constantly questions his own actions and relies on Lady Macbeth for all decisions. If the roles were reversed, Macbeth would never make a proposal that he would kill his own
Many women in Europe became more powerful after this play was written. Although women’s rights are a popular, ongoing issue, Macbeth may have been an inspiration in the progression of women’s liberation. Throughout the Tragedy of Macbeth, women had control and authority in many situations. Lady Macbeth was a sublime example of this when she says “When you durst do it, then you were a man” (1.1.49) meaning that Macbeth would not be deemed a man
Normally, the male character has power over the women in a marriage and orders her to do important tasks. However, Shakespeare changes this idealism to allow Lady Macbeth with all the power in the marriage. Therefore, Lady Macbeth is the main female character who manages power over her husband. Lady Macbeth is “nothing but a fierce, cruel women” who uses her power over her husband to kill the king (Bloom). In the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth’s manipulation is extremely noticeable over her husband.
Lady Macbeth is the most interesting and complex character in Shakespeare's play, Macbeth. She is, in fact, the point on which the action pivots: without her there is no play.
Clearly, Macbeth is a weak person because his inability to think led him to kill. He did not think about what would happen when he killed. He listened to someone who wanted to convince him to do something terrible. Lady Macbeth is the one who led Macbeth to kill, by convincing him that he will be a king by murdering King Duncan. He chooses treachery and crime, knows them for what they are and is totally aware he is doing evil.
Through the entirety Shakespeare’s play, Lady Macbeth is portrayed as a malicious, manipulative character who will not stop until she gets what she wants. Her behavior and actions in 'Macbeth' prove so, but she doesn’t show her true colors until Macbeth receives the news from the witches about becoming king. She becomes blinded by ambition and begins manipulating Macbeth, contriving a plan to do whatever it takes for her husband to become king. Even if it means getting her hands bloody. She pleads to the witches to rid her of her femininity, only seeing it as a weakness keeping her from being completely ruthless.