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Lady Macbeth Wants To Be In Control Essay

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Macbeth: The One Who Wants to Be in Control
During Act II, Lady Macbeth is in control of Macbeth because she is stronger and more reliable than Macbeth at this moment in the play. Throughout the play Lady Macbeth tries to find every way possible to take control from Macbeth so that she can make her own rules. This also happens in real life to when Ilse Koch married her husband and worked with him at a Concentration Camp. As she was working with him she tried taking control and killing the people for what their appearance was. During war some people that you find try to take control over others so that they could make their own rules.
In Act II the big idea that happened in this act is when Macbeth and Lady Macbeth were making a plan about …show more content…

Growing up, people always noticed that she was a polite and happy young woman. While she was young her first job was working as a librarian and everyone loved working and being around her. As she got older she married a man named Karl Koch (“The Life, Crimes and Death”). After being together for a while her husband got a job as commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany. Shortly after working there Ilse Koch started going with her husband to the camp. Ilse Koch started taking control and killing people if they have a tattoo (Norman). Ilse Koch would take their bodies and cut their skin off and then make different things out of the skin. She has made lampshades, book covers, and gloves out of human skin. After finding out, she and her husband were arrested on August 24, 1943 for the charges of embezzlement and murder of prisoners from the camp. When some prisoners found out about her killings the prisoners with tattoos would try and find ways to hide their tattoos so she wouldn’t kill them. There were prisoners who also said that she would walk with a whip in her hands and give blows to everyone, she would also set dogs on pregnant women or the elderly for entertainment (“The Life, Crimes and Death”). When Ilse Koch was arrested for the things she did she was released later on because there wasn’t enough evidence on if she actually did the things she did. After she got arrested the second …show more content…

They both try to take control over their husbands because they want to have the power and be able to make their own rules. Lady Macbeth takes control over Macbeth in Act II and the beginning of Act III when she plans out how she wants him to kill the king, then, Lady Macbeth does everything she can to make Macbeth kill the king because she won’t do it herself because she says that Duncan looks too much like her father. After she makes Macbeth kill the king she tries to calm him down after he loses his mind about having the king's blood on his hands. Lady Macbeth is also in control whenever they have the party during Act III and Macbeth loses it when he sees the ghost of Duncan’s body. She has to calm him down in front of all the people at the party. Ilse Koch liked Lady Macbeth because whenever she started working with her husband at the concentration camp she would take control and start killing prisoners if they had a tattoo on their body. She would kill the prisoners with tattoos and then cut their skin off and make things out of their skin. Another thing about how Lady Macbeth and Ilse Koch are similar is that they both died by commiting

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