Persuasive Speech On Macbeth

I appreciate your eagerness to support Macbeth in all of his endeavors, and it might seem like a wonderful thing for a loving and ambitious wife to do, but I think your enthusiasm is both premature and overzealous. For your marriage’s sake, I think you should dial back your encouragement of your husband’s latent homicidal tendencies. You are starting to transition from embracing your husband’s aspirations to manipulating him into fulfilling your own, and that is not healthy.

Everybody wants to feel important. I understand why you the witches’ proclamation that Macbeth “shalt be king hereafter” (I.iii.53), is so thrilling for the both of you, especially after they correctly predicted that he would become the Thane of Cawdor. However, you should not let your fantasies and ambitions overreach your ability to cope with their consequences. Besides, Macbeth may not need to kill the Duncan in order to become King. If the witches are prophets and their words are prophecy, then it stands to reason that “fate and the metaphysical” (I.v.32) will assure that you and your husband to ascend the throne regardless of whether or not you

Macbeth may want to kill Duncan in order to become king, but if he, as he words it, has “no spur to prick the sides of [his] intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself” (I.vii.25-27), then he simply does not have the mettle to commit homicide in order to become the king of Scotland. That is not a bad thing! Your husband “a coward” (I.vii.47) for having second thoughts about a major decision or lifestyle change, especially one that would lead to major political upheaval. In fact, your husband’s reflection on his motivations for taking action, as well as the possible ramifications of doing so, shows that he is practicing careful decision making. I think it would not hurt for you to do the