Lady Macbeth is more accountable for the death of king Duncan and she has an evil, wicked, and nasty heart. No Fear Shakespeare Macbeth is a play about a Scottish nobleman who was delivered a prophecy by three witches, that he will become king. In order for Macbeth to fulfill the prophecy; he goes through circumstances that leads to his death. Lady Macbeth wants to become queen, once she hears about the news that Macbeth invites the king over; she exploits the opportunity to come up with a scheme of assassinating the king. Lady Macbeth sends the message that she is more accountable for the assassination of king Duncan than Macbeth throughout the way she inputs the thoughts of murder into Macbeth’s head, deceitful actions, and events.
The input of murder thoughts into Macbeth’s head by Lady Macbeth has led to consequences. After Macbeth sent a letter notifying Lady Macbeth about what happened with the witches, it got Lady Macbeth thinking of how Macbeth can become king. Murder, the first thing that popped to her mind. She
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Lady Macbeth have kept encouraging Macbeth to do the deed, but he was afraid. “But I worry about whether or not you have what it takes to seize the crown. You are too full of the milk of human kindness to strike aggressively at your first opportunity. You want to be powerful, and you don’t lack ambition, but you don’t have the mean streak that these things call for. The things you want to do, you want to do like a good man. You don’t want to cheat, yet you want what doesn’t belong to you. There’s something you want, but you’re afraid to do what you need to do to get it. You want it to be done for you.” (Act 1, Scene 5) Macbeth has a weak heart full of tenderness, he wouldn’t have commit the treason without the whining of Lady Macbeth. The quote also shows that Macbeth fears murder. Lady Macbeth is only thinking of herself not for her
Macbeth is hesitant about following through with her plan of killing the king, but Lady Macbeth sees this as a lack of courage and strength. Lady Macbeth felt that if you have the ambition to do something you shouldn’t hold back
and (I, v, 71-73). Lady Macbeth uses her own strength to supply the courage Macbeth does not have “ Make thick my blood; stop th’ access and passage to remorse, that no compunctious visiting of nature shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between th’ effect and it!
After hearing the plan that Lady MacBeth has carefully crafted, MacBeth shudders at the thought of being gifted a daughter. He wishes that she only bears him sons as power like hers can only be seen in a male body. “Bring forth men-children only,/ For thy undaunted mettle should compose/ Nothing but males.” (I.VII.51-53) This scene shows that MacBeth finds fear in his wife's power. MacBeth states that a power like hers should only be seen in men, openly saying that men are the only ones who can handle such power. MacBeth can not handle a daughter that portrays such qualities like her mother as she would be an equal threat to him. Through the fear of a challenge, MacBeth crumbles. Along with her potential, Lady Macbeth has a bursting confidence that leaves her husband disturbed. When MacBeth forgets to leave the daggers at the scene of the murder and refuses to return them out of fear, his wife does so herself. She compares his actions to those of a child while using her preferred way of addressing her husband, by calling him a coward. “Infirm of purpose!/ Give me the dagger. The sleeping and the dead/ Are but pictures. ‘Tis the eye of childhood/ That fears a painted devil” (I.VII.51-53) Lady MacBeth frequently uses fear induced intimidation in hopes that it shall make her husband cower and not want to receive the same treatment once more. The focus of intimidation is used quite often throughout
Lady Macbeth is able to control Macbeth through emotional abuse, guilt, and by setting the groundwork for the murder. Lady Macbeth uses many tactics to persuade Macbeth, but her use of emotional In their argument, Macbeth states that he does not want to murder King Duncan; Lady Macbeth insists, and emotionally abuses him by questioning his masculinity. Lady Macbeth asserts, “’Art thou afearded to be the same in thine own act and valor as thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that which thou esteem’st the ornament of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem . . . When you durst do it, then you were a man’”
Lady Macbeth, on the other hand, pursues her goals with greater determination, yet she is less capable of withstanding the repercussions of her immoral acts. One of Shakespeare's most forcefully drawn female characters, she spurs her husband mercilessly to kill Duncan and urges him to be strong in the murder's aftermath, but she is eventually driven to distraction by the effect of Macbeth's repeated bloodshed on her conscience. In each case, ambition, helped, of course, by the malign prophecies of the witches, is what drives the couple to ever more terrible atrocities. The problem, the play suggests, is that once one decides to use violence to further one?s quest for power, it is difficult to stop. There are always potential threats to the throne?Banquo, Fleance, Macduff?and it is always tempting to use violent means to dispose of them.
At the beginning of the play, Macbeth is a trusted soldier, who is honest and noble. Unfortunately, he meets three witches who tell him three prophecies; that he will become thane of Cawdor, that he will become king and that Banquo’s sons will become kings. These three prophecies slowly change his opinions on life and turn him into a greedy, dishonest, tyrant, full of ambition. Lady Macbeth’s thoughts change as well when she is told about the three prophecies that were told to Macbeth. In the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth is ambitious, controlling and domineering. She is the one who encourages him to kill the king, she not only encourages him, she makes all the plans herself, which shows her determination and persistence."Yet I do fear thy nature, it is too full o’th milk of human kindness. To catch the nearest way thou wouldst be great. Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it." (Act 1, scene 5). Lady Macbeth is the force behind Macbeth’s sudden ambition and she tries to manipulate him into feeling guilty and unmanly for not following through with the murder, by using her husbands emotions, she manages to convince Macbeth to murder Duncan.
Macbeth’s blind ambition leads him to surrender to his dark desires that taunt him throughout the play. Macbeth is frequently tempted to result to the wrongful methods that seem to roam inside of him. In the beginning however Macbeth tends to ignore these desires and depends on chance. He declares “if chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir” (Shakespeare, act 1, scene 3, 143-144). This declaration by Macbeth shows his initial stand, which is reliant on fate and sin free. Yet as Macbeth’s character develops throughout the play, he moves farther from his dependence on chance and closer to his darker desires. Eventually his blind ambition to become king overp...
While Macbeth is losing his morals, Lady Macbeth is developing hers. After Macbeth reveals his plot to kill Banquo, she is reluctant to add another murder to those already committed: “You must leave this”(3.3.40). In act three, another prophecy foretold by the witches comes true. The paradox “fair is foul and foul is fair” characterizes the changes the protagonists undergo in acts one, two, and three. Throughout the play, Macbeth, the “fair” one, becomes overcome by guilt and becomes “foul”.
“When you first do it, then you were a man, And to be more than what you were, you would, be so much more the man” (I. VII, 54-56). After struggling with the thought of killing Duncan, Macbeth is reprimanded by Lady Macbeth for his lack of courage. She informs him that killing the king will make him a man, insinuating that he isn’t a man if he doesn’t go through with the murder. This develops Lady Macbeth as a merciless, nasty, and selfish woman. She will say, or do anything to get what she desires, even if it means harming others.
Lady Macbeth is an extremely ambitious woman and wants more than anything for her husband, Macbeth, to be the next King of Scotland. When King Duncan announces that his son, Malcolm, is to be the next King, Duncan’s murder is planned. Lady Macbeth’s crucial role in the play is to persuade Macbeth to carry out the murder of Duncan. In the beginning she is ambitious, controlling and strong. However as the plot concludes there is an extreme change in her character and personality which surprises the audience. Lady Macbeth’s guilt eventually becomes too much for her to handle which leads to her death.
When Macbeth receives a prophecy that promises him more power his dark ambitious nature begins to show. The temptation of more power provides a pathway for greed to emerge and for Macbeth to contemplate high treason. Macbeth ponders the prospect of murdering the King, only to halt his thoughts as they frighten him. “ My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, / Shakes so my single state of man that function / Is smothered in surmise and nothing is / But what is not” ( I, IV, 139-142).
When you dart to do it, then you are a man,' (Macbeth, Shakespeare Act 1 Scene 7). Lady Macbeth's constant harassment pushed Macbeth and made him commit all this evil. When you reason things out by yourself, you tend to know what is right and what is wrong, a conscience. But with the outside influence from the witches, he thinks that that is his destiny and he must do everything to fulfill it. One can wonder if Macbeth ever had a chance of doing what was right after he met the witches.
¨Art thou afeard/ To be the same in thine own act and valor/ As thou art in desire?/ Wouldst thou have that/ Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life,/ And live a coward in thine own esteem,/ Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would, ”/ Like the poor cat i' th' adage?¨ (I, xii, 39-45). Lady Macbeth will continuously attack Macbeth's decisions, lack of ambition, and masculinity throughout the play. By asking him if he is afraid and calling him a coward she undermines him, but what this conversation does achieve is her true goal. What Lady Macbeth wants more than anything is power. Had she been a man, Lady Macbeth would have strived for king herself. Compared to Lady Macbeth, Macbeth himself is weak, and yet because he is male is viewed as her
...hee peace’” (1.7.44), for she refuses to relent, or risk losing him to his sense of morality. Thus, ‘ambition’ is not Macbeth’s fatal flaw as much as a lack of independent thought and action.
Lady Macbeth is a vicious and overly ambitious woman, her desire of having something over rules all the moral behaviors that one should follow. On the beginning of the novel, Macbeth receives the news that if Duncan, the current king, passed away he would be the next one to the throne. So, Lady Macbeth induces Macbeth into killing Duncan by filling his mind with ambition and planting cruel seeds into his head. After accomplishing his deed of killing the king, he brings out the daggers that were used during the murder, and says, “I’ll go no more. I am afraid to think what I have done; look on’t again I dare not.” This is his first crime and Macbeth is already filled with guilt and regret. He shows the reader to be the weak one of the duo. Lady Macbeth as the cruel partner still has some sentiment and somewhat a weakness in her heart and mind. When talking about Duncan she says, “Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t.” Weakness is still present and will always be there throughout the novel but this one change the fact that Lady Macbeth is still the stronger and cruel one.