Lady Macbeth Manipulative Quotes

The play of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, is a riveting story about the main character of Macbeth. Macbeth receives a prophecy from three witches, in which he was destined to become king. Macbeth then chases this prophecy by going after and murdering King Duncan, the King of Scotland. Macbeth’s friend Banquo then becomes suspicious of what had happened to King Duncan, which drives Macbeth to murder him out of desperation. Paranoia drives Macbeth to murder anyone who he thinks is suspicious of him, or whoever threatens him as king. As Macbeth is consumed with this, he is not enacting the qualities of a good king. This drives the English and Scottish under Malcolm to attempt to surround Dunsinane Hill (where Macbeth resides), and murder Macbeth.

To begin, Lady Macbeth manipulates her husband, with the expression that he can only be a man if he follows through with what he had sworn to. “That made you break this enterprise,” said me. When you first did it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man” (Skakespeare 1.7). 48-51). See the A> section. This quote expresses how Lady Macbeth guilts her husband into thinking that only if he follows through with the murder of King Duncan, then can he be classified as a real man. She expresses that he must follow through with this, as he had originally sworn to do. Additionally, Lady Macbeth did use this manipulation to convince him to follow-through with the murder of King Duncan. Lady Macbeth convinced Macbeth to murder Duncan for his own benefit, by shaming him. Macbeth originally had plans to murder King Duncan, so that the prophecy of him becoming king could be fulfilled. However, Macbeth knew that this action was not the right thing to do, so he decided to not go through with it. When he told Lady Macbeth of these plans, she immediately shamed him and convinced him that if he did not go through with the murder, he was not a true

In addition, Lady Macbeth almost forced her husband to enact the murder with her, as she had no doubt of failure. Macbeth mentioned the prophecy from the Witches to his wife, and a possible plan of murdering King Duncan. When Macbeth later tells her that he no longer wants to go through with the murder, for reasons of possible failure and his conscience, she becomes enraged. She is in all support that the plan to murder Dunaan will work, and that he should not be so worried (she does this while also insulting his “manhood”). Her confidence in the plan to murder King Duncan supports how she had no idea that the plan would fall through, and they would be blamed or caught. To wrap this up, Lady Macbeth is confident throughout the play, especially when discussing matters with Macbeth, her husband. Lady Macbeth became guilty in the later Acts of the play, in ways such as sleepwalking and eventually by passing-away. To start, Lady Macbeth sleepwalks and mumbles in a sense that shows that she feels guilty. “Here's the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand” (Shakespeare 5.1).