Macbeth: Lady Macbeth and Evil
In a play that is abundant in evil occurrences, Lady Macbeth is the
overriding source of evil in the first act. Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth to
kill Duncan, despite Macbeth listing eight reasons against the murder. When
Macbeth is alone, we discover that he is a loyal thane to Duncan, not a
murdering savage. When Duncan is in his house at Inverness, Macbeth comes to a
decision not to kill Duncan. Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth, who decided
strongly against murdering Duncan, to go ahead with their plan to murder Duncan.
Lady Macbeth is very successful at persuading him to do things that he knows are
wrong. Macbeth is not an evil person, but when he is allowed to be influenced by
Lady Macbeth, he is vulnerable to committing deeds he knows are wrong. Lady
Macbeth entirely breaks the stereotype of women being kind and benevolant in the
first act. After Macbeth writes home telling of his murderous plans, Lady
Macbeth begins talking to evil spirits. Because women often lack the
ruthlessness to kill someone, Lady Macbeth asks the spirits to make her male.
One of the most vivid descriptions of Lady Macbeth's wickedness is directly
after Macbeth announces to her he does not want to kill Duncan.This speech
epitomizes Lady Macbeth's evilness. She is ruthless, and her evil accounts for
the murders that occur throughout the play Macbeth.
Lady Macbeth is far more savage and ambitious than her husband, yet she
convinces Macbeth to commit the murders that will make them king and queen.
Macbeth is without his wife's cruel and uncompassionate attitude towards life.
Lady Macbeth is aware that her husband is genuinely a gentle person. However,
she is able to manipulate Macbeth into committing evil deeds in order to
achieve her desires. Lady Macbeth fears that Macbeth lacks enough courage and
killer instinct to murder Duncan. Lady Macbeth might be a more vicious
individual, but she is more afraid than Macbeth about killing Duncan. She never
mentions herself committing the murder, and she always insists upon Macbeth
executing the killing. The opportunity arises for Lady Macbeth to murder Duncan,
but she decides not to. This is the first humane feeling that we see from Lady
Macbeth in the play. Her desires and inspiration are very strong, but when
opportunity presents itself, she can not carry through with the act. Therefore,
she uses her husband's vulnerability to persuasion to achieve her dreams.
The relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth is based on political
triumphs, not love.Lady Macbeth often accuses her husband of talking but not
Nietzsche begins his discussion of good and moral with an etymological assessment of the designations of “good” coined in various languages. He “found they all led back to the same conceptual transformation—that everywhere ‘noble,’ ‘aristocratic’ in the social sense, is the basic concept from which ‘good’ in the sense of ‘with aristocratic soul,’… developed…” (Nietzsche 909). Instead of looking forward at the achievement for morality, Nietzsche looks backward, trying to find origins and causes of progression. He ultimately comes to the conclusion that strength implies morality, that superiority implies the good man. The powerful nobles, through pathos of difference, construed plebeians and slaves as bad, because of their inferiority in every sense of the word. From this concept of the pathos of difference was born the priestly morality, wherein the nobles were construed in an altogether different and less favorable light.
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Evil. It is a word that has been used for hundreds of years, yet the
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To cry, 'Hold, hold!' " line 41-57, Pg. 41. Here we see her summon evil spirits to thicken her blood and to turn her milk into bitter gall and then calls on them to prevent her from feeling remorse and to remove her feminity. This is very intriguing, and very interesting. We didn't even expect that an apparently strong, practical, and determined woman would act in such contradiction to her womanliness.
Macbeth was not evil he was just a man struggling with his identity and trying to be something he was not. He new nothing other than how to be a soldier and he was good at it. In the end he realised it was the only way he could win his battle. “I’ll fight till from me bones me flesh be hacked. Give me my armour.” 5:3:33. Even though Macbeth had become hated and thought of as a tyrant to others he had won his own battle. This becomes clear when at the end of the play Macbeth feels proud to say “My name’s Macbeth.” 5:8:6.
Evil is a destructive force; it causes harm to those who embrace it and their victims. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, the protagonist Macbeth and Lady Macbeth fall into the hands of evil. Evil is what drives people to commit unnatural actions of destruction. Macbeth succumbs to evil through his fatal flaw, greed, and it causes him to disrupt the chain of being. When Macbeth willingly murders, massacres, lies and deceives, he loses his heath and sanity. Evil corrupts everything it touches, and Macbeth decides to be evil's servant. But, when Macbeth embraces evil, it corrupts him, and it ultimately destroys him as well. Lady Macbeth is a victim of Macbeth's fatal flaw, since she is drawn in, and becomes greedy for power herself. She pushes Macbeth into destruction when she adds the small touch that plunges Macbeth into a chain of murder, destruction, and lying followed by the loss of their sanity and health. After Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are well into the depths of corruption and greed, it is clearly seen that their guilt will haunt them for the rest of their lives. The harm they have caused others will be returned to them as revenge and they have lost their sanity in order to gain power. The fate of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth clearly illustrates that to embrace evil is to negate our own need for order and well being.