Grief In Macbeth

Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tragedy that involves many themes, one that stood out to me is grief. I will show how the grief of Lady Macbeth lead her and her husband to their bitter ends. Grief changes people and that can cause them to do things that they normally would not have done in an attempt to deal with it and move on. Furthermore, I found that there was one part of the play that I think is very important is found in Act 1 Scene 7, particularly Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s conversation about their plot to kill the king. Through out the play Lady Macbeth criticizes her husband’s inability to be manly and carry out their plan to kill the king by constantly pointing out his flaws. I think that the grief of losing their child is what causes

It also shows that he cares about what she thinks of the whole ordeal, and that he wants to make a better life for them. You can tell by the nervous excitement in the tone of the letter. It’s like the tone that you use when you’re telling someone that you love them for the first time and waiting in anticipation for them to say it back. After she reads the letter you quickly find out how the lady feels about her husband. She belittles her husband by making fun of him in Act 1 Scene 5 lines 37-52. Within these lines it also shows a sign of her grief when she says: “Make thick my blood, Stop up th’access and passage to remorse” (1.5.41-42). Usually saying of making one’s blood thick normally represents the blocking of emotions like fear and pity. But in this case I think that it refers to her trying to block her grief as well as her morals. But instead of feeling her grief she is trying to block it out and instead replace it with anger and resentment towards her

He continues to go on about how the king has shown him good favor by giving him his new title as ‘Thane of Cawdor’. We start to see the inner quarrel that Macbeth is having between his conscious and him wanting to make his wife happy. After hearing this Lady Macbeth becomes enraged and insults him by asking him: “Was the hope drunk wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?” (1.5.35-36). Macbeth tries to defend his decision by saying: “I dare do all that become a man” (1.5.46) in one last attempt to try and sway his wife to see things his way. But she continues to disparage him in her reply. She also reminds him of their child. She tells him that even if it had been their own child she still would have killed it if she had promised him that she would. Which further ensues his guilt causing him to reluctantly agree to their original plot. Even after he agrees to carry out their plan she still continues to insult him by