Moral Of Compassion In Macbeth

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People tend to modify their morals if a loved person asks them to do an immoral act, just because of the sense of compassion in each individual. In the play, Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, that talks about ambition, power, and how his desire to be king leads him to kill everyone that gets in his way; of course, being helped by his wife, Lady Macbeth. This moral modification occurs because of self-interest; differing from Toby Groves where compassion was the motivation. Lady Macbeth help her husband kill king Duncan for her own benefit because she doesn’t show compassion, wants control but the lack of it leads her to death contrasting from Toby Grove’s employees who helped him cheat only because they loved him.

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She makes evident how important it is for her being the one with power in the relationship with her husband when she wants to take her femininity away as well as wanting to control Macbeth’s actions. By saying ” unsex me here. And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood,” it’s evident she believes that in order to have power and be though she needs to be a man and that’s why she expects a cruel attitude from Macbeth. To sum up, She tries to have control over her husband power by ordering him to follow her plan of killing Duncan and expresses a negative attitude towards him commenting, “But screw your courage to the sticking-place,/And we 'll not fail.”(1.7) With the purpose of making Macbeth king so she can have a different kind of power were she controls him letting him be only the image of power. Lady Macbeth’s manifest her need to have power over her husband when she states “That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold: What hath quenched them hath given me fire.” Because she is showing pleasure for her accomplish to manage manipulating Macbeth to kill Duncan her desire of control is

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