( . 5. 15-16) She thinks her husband is not cruel enough, not as evil as she is. [ Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy.]
(1.7.36-37). By saying this Lady Macbeth is insulting and manipulating Macbeth into following through with his plans. She also says, “Wouldst thou
Thou wouldst be great, art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it.” (1.5.15-20) Lady Macbeth reads the letter that Macbeth had sent her and immediately thinks of
— Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.” After analyzing the play, when Lady Macbeth says those lines she is sleep walking and seems to be distressed because of all the things that happened. She thinks it's all because of her that many lives have been cut short. She thinks Macbeth is afraid of people finding out the truth but the one who is truly afraid is her. She's afraid she will be blamed and caught for her actions because she knows she is one of the reasons why most of the people are dead due to her encouraging Macbeth to kill all those in his way to become more powerful and eliminate those who threaten his power.
After Macbeth returns home he says this soliloquy to his wife, "But only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other." (I.vii.26-28). The witches’ prophecy creates an aggressive ambition in him to achieve power and kill the king. She responds to these by questioning Macbeth's hope, "Was the hope drunk, Wherein you dress'd yourself? Hath it slept since" (I.vii.35-36).
“A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight”, once again it is noticed that Lady Macbeth takes charge and judges him on his weakness in doing the deed and is again pressuring him to lose sight of what his respectful beliefs are showing her continuous lack of
In the quote above, Lady Macbeth questions Macbeth's manliness, knowing that this is the greatest insult she can say to him. Because Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are so close at the beginning of the play, she knows exactly how to manipulate him into committing
Macbeth’s corruption neither comes from nothing or from one single cause. The witches’ prophecy, those weird sisters, rose his curiosity and interest in the first place. Lady Macbeth, his seemingly innocent wife, pressures him into taking the throne in the first place. His ambition, his desire to be king, influences his decisions after he takes the throne. Macbeth’s corruption originates from the witches’ prophecy and continues through Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s own ambition.
In these lines, Lady Macbeth becomes aware of Macbeth’s plans, but she fully supports him because if Macbeth succeeded, she would become queen. Based on fortitude, Lady Macbeth lacks the ability to not compromise with evil. She knows that the prophecy would cause Macbeth to kill the king, and she willingly agrees to help. Since the prophecy would make Macbeth a king, she knew that she would become queen, so her ambition blinded
Words that are said during a moment of questioning can be either encouraging or disheartening. In Macbeth’s case he had gotten discouraging words from his wife. Lady Macbeth questions Macbeth's manhood causing him to act out. The insistent pressure of his wife pushes him to the brink where he must use his feelings to get stuff done. Once he cracks under pressure amongst the guest at the feast she than begins to see what she has done.
Throughout Shakespeare play Macbeth, Lady Macbeth was regarded as ruthless, cruel and manipulative, although it was suggested there was more to her character. Lady Macbeth is not as evil as she was portrayed to be. Lady Macbeth had a strong relationship with her husband, they trusted each other and were loyal to one another. Through her words and actions she showed humanity that others didn’t expect from her. A wicked person wouldn’t feel the slightest guilt for something wrong they have done, yet Lady Macbeth felt culpability that lead her to her downfall.
Lady Macbeth then gradually begins to bear the guilt "where our desire is got without content 'tis safer to be that which we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy". She says in a soliloquy, which Shakespeare uses to portray her deepest thoughts as she is afraid of killing more. Lady Macbeth feels that nothing was gained by killing Duncan because even though she and Macbeth got the crown, it wasn’t worth it because they can never be truly happy about it. She thinks death is better to have than living a life with questions of their future
AN ACCOUNT OF LADY MACBETH AS A CHARACTER AND A VILLAIN “Every villain is a hero in his own mind”-Tom Hiddleston, this is the case of Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare’s’ Macbeth. She is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous and frightening female characters. As she is Macbeth’s wife, her role is very significant in his rise and fall from royalty. During Shakespearean times, women were regarded as weak, insignificant beings that were there to procreate and look beautiful. They were not thought to be as intelligent or equal to men.
Her ambition is not only for herself but also for Macbeth. Nevertheless, with all her fervor, she wants him to be as strong as her. “Make thick my blood./Stop up the access and passage to remorse,/That no compunctious visitings of nature/ Shake my fell purpose/Come to my woman’s breasts,/And take my milk for gall” (1.5.44-49). Lady Macbeth never wavers in her goal.
This quotation shows the relationship Lady Macbeth holds with power as she is encouraging herself to kill the
