Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are two sinfully characters in the short story, Macbeth. Macbeth was someone who wanted to become king for his wife, Lady Macbeth because he wants to make her happy, but is not fully interested in going to extreme measures to get the position. Lady Macbeth was a more devious person who was always plotting Duncan’s murder and is strong, more ruthless, and more ambitious than Macbeth. Macbeth uses Logos and a sympathetic and hesitant tone to prove his case that death always has a consequence, while Lady Macbeth proves her case by using an aggressive and passionate tone and ridiculing rhetorical questions to challenge Macbeth’s manhood and insist that murdering Duncan is the best and fastest way to become king. Macbeth …show more content…
Next, Lady Macbeth crafts her argument by showing Duncan’s death will be the best option to become king and questions Macbeth’s manliness. For example, “Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife see not the wound it makes, nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, to cry ‘Hold, Hold!’” (I.vi. 52-54). Here, Lady Macbeth is ridiculing Macbeth by saying that a women would do a devilous crime easily, but a man is showing signs of weakness. Lady Macbeth wants him to take the best opportunity to assassinate Duncan, so that Macbeth can take the crown instead of letting it go to one of Duncan’s son. Lady Macbeth wants Macbeth to quickly stab Duncan with a dagger and leave without the weapon, so no one knows that Macbeth was the one that committed the murder. Lady Macbeth thinks by killing Duncan, Duncan’s sons will flee in hopes of keeping their lives. In addition, the passage states, “Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, index me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty!” (I.Vi. 40-43). This quote and the previous quote shows how far Lady Macbeth would go if she would change herself into a man, and commit the murder, herself. In the passage, it states, “And live a coward in thine own esteem, letting ‘I dare not’ wait upon ‘I would,’ like the poor cat i’ the adage.” (I.Vii.