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Lady Macbeth Forceful Character

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The Tragedy of Macbeth wrote by William Shakespeare toke place in Scotland during the eleventh century; when Vikings were still ruling Scotland. During this time daily life was a struggle. All the strength of the Scots were spent fighting each other and the Vikings. At the beginning, Macbeth is in a civil war. He kills Macdonwald and captures Thane of Cowdar. The Thane of Cowdar is to be executed and Macbeth was to receive the title. Lady Macbeth wants her husband to become king because she thinks he deserves it, so she wants King Duncan dead. The couple plans to murder the king in his sleep. Lady Macbeth is the more forceful character because, she wants Duncan killed and she talks Macbeth into doing it, even though, he does not want to. …show more content…

Lady Macbeth wanted to kill King Duncan and for Macbeth to become king. She fears that her husband does not have what it takes to murder King Duncan for the title. Lady Macbeth says " Yet I do fear thy nature:/ It is too full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way" (1.5.15-17) finding that her husband is to kind and noble to murder for the crown. She found herself getting mad when Macbeth asks her "If we should fail?" (1.7.59.). She convinced him " and we 'll not fail" (1.7.61.). Her wanting of murder reflects her cruel attitude towards life. She asks the deadly thoughts to "unsex" her and to "fill" her "from the crown to the toe" (1.6.40-41). Lady Macbeth thinks that Macbeth does not have what it takes and thinks that he will back out of the murder. "Only look up clear./ To alter favor ever is to fear./ Leave all the rest to me" (1.6.70-73) he could not handle the murder, so she told him to just worry about clearing his conscience. Lady Macbeth is a very forceful character toward …show more content…

He wants Duncan 's position as king. The only way of Macbeth becoming king is to murder Duncan, but he feared getting caught. "But here, upon this bank and school of time, we 'd jump the life to come" (1.7.6-7), he was fearing that he would go to hell for the sin he would be committing. "But in these cases/ We still have judgement here" (1.7.7-8), he was worried about getting judged by the people for the murder of their king. Macbeth feared they would fail, and if they do not fail; he fears people demanding revenge. Macbeth does not kill if he does not have to, that was his reasoning for capturing the Thane of Cowdar. He was a kinsman and subject of Duncan; Also Duncan 's host when Duncan came to visit Macbeth 's castle. Macbeth explains that Duncan was a great king "this Duncan/ Hath borne his faculties so meek hath been/ so clear in his great office" (1.7.16-18). Lady Macbeth came up with the idea of getting the guards drunk and blaming them for the murder. Macbeth likes the idea of the guards getting blamed for the murder, he committed. Macbeth is not very forceful, Lady Macbeth is more forceful than him.

Lady Macbeth is the more forceful character, because she wants Duncan killed and she talks Macbeth into doing it, even though, he does not want to. Macbeth was supposed to receive the Thane of Cowdar 's title, once he was executed. That was not enough for Lady Macbeth, she wanted Macbeth to be the King of Scotland. In the end

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Macbeth killed King Duncan and many other people so he would become king. According to the play Lady Macbeth told Macbeth,”When you durst do it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man.” She commented on his manhood to manipulate him into making an irrational decision. He took that prophecy seriously and wanted to be king by any means possible no matter who had to get hurt. Macbeth knew his time was coming

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When Lady Macbeth found out about the predictions the witches had for Macbeth, she started to pressure him, even guilt tripped him about their deceased son, and made him doubt the morals he valued. As act I of Macbeth, carried on, the image and principles Macbeth had for himself began to rot away. While Macbeth desired take King Duncan’s throne, he wanted to do it the in righteous matter. Whenever Macbeth had doubts about killing King Duncan, Lady Macbeth was always there to urge him otherwise, because she cared more about power than him "Great Glamis, worthy Cawdor." (1.5 52).

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She is also shown to have fear or worries when she states that she does 'fear thy nature' will not be able to go through with the murder, when referring to Macbeth's kindness. This proves that she is able feel human emotions. In addition she had to have wine which 'made them drunk hath made me bold'. This proves that she had to conjure up enough bravery to be able to commit murder. She begins to feel unhappy as they continue to commit evil deeds, she states 'our desire is got without content'.

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However, when she begins to tell Macbeth her ideas he attempts to be steadfast in his loyalty to King Duncan. Macbeth states that “We will proceed no further in this business:/he hath honoured me of late;” (1.7.507-508). Macbeth’s only issue with murdering King Duncan is that he just got honored by him and that would be rude. Again it does not take much time for Macbeth’s ambition to take control due to his wife stating how much more of a man he could be if he just went through with it. Despite these influences Macbeth is in control of his own actions.

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She insults him and calls him a coward while also questioning his manhood which makes Macbeth come to a realization that not killing the king is the way of a coward and he is motivated to carry out the plan and murder the king because of Lady Macbeth’s insults and speech that she gives him. By successfully persuading Macbeth into murdering the king this shows that Lady Macbeth is controlling towards people and she can be a very manipulative person. It shows that she is the type of person that gets things done by manipulating other people to do her dirty work for her. Lady Macbeth can simply achieve her own goals by getting into anyone’s head and turning their own conscience against them in, which is essentially what she did to her husband. Macbeth would have never went through with killing King Duncan if Lady Macbeth had never persuaded him because he really does have a soft heart and is good and honorable.

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