Shakespeare’s diction forces readers to feel one way or another about certain characters in the story. Each character is really a foil of the other ones. You could compare any good character with any bad character and the good one would make the bad one look really bad, and the bad one would make the good one look really good.
We’re made to feel bad for Macbeth because of how he comes off as weak. At first he comes off strong and power hungry, he talks about how he’s going to have to step over Malcolm or give up because Malcolm has become the Prince of Cumberland, heir to the throne, and Macbeth wants to be the king (Act 1: Scene 4: line 50). Macbeth shows his internal conflict about the situation (Act 1: scene 3: line 140-175). He knows what he’s thinking isn’t good, but he also doesn’t know if what he’s feeling is bad. Macbeth thinks it should just come true without him having to do anything because that’s how he became the Thane of Cawdor. He’s heartfelt, sentimental, and shows his emotions. Macbeth states “We will proceed no further in this business. He hath
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She’s more of the brains behind the plan to kill King Duncan rather than the actual murderer. In Act 1: Scene 5, she receives the letter from Macbeth and she says “Yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness”, she knows that he will end up not wanting to go through with their plan. Although he could have said no she still pushed him to proceed. Maybe if Macbeth would’ve put his foot down instead of cowering down and doing whatever Lady Macbeth said, he wouldn’t be in the predicament of having to kill his friends that he is in now. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are much like Adam and Eve. We tend to blame Eve for making Adam eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, but Adam could have said no (Genesis 2:4-3:24). Macbeth didn’t have to do as his wife