How Does Lady Macbeth Affect Their Decisions

There Will be a Price to be Paid What is the price to be paid for happiness? For some, just the opportunity to be alive is enough, but for others, all the money in the world cannot purchase eternal happiness. Macbeth was once content with the life that he was living. What more could one want than to be an honourable and a recognizable soldier of the king’s army?

‘Macbeth’ is a tragic play written by Shakespeare that dramatizes tragic flaw of ambition and murderous intent in Macbeth, which is manipulated by his equally ambitious wife and the inherently evil witches. This leads him to murder King Duncan.

With attention to the murder of King Duncan, Macbeth struggles with the morality of his actions. Before the murder takes place, Macbeth begins to believe that the murder will “be the be-all and the end-all” to his clear conscious and would risk him to eternal damnation (Act I, line 5). Yet, the murder would bring him power over Scotland and he “shalt be kind” as told by the Weird Sisters(Act 1, line 50). Macbeth goes off of his ambition to murder King Duncan. The internal struggle of choosing mortality over motives brought forth an intense shift of loyalty to betrayal. The murder caused for Macbeth to turn on Scotland and only care for his own selfish motives. The betrayal causes for the play to become horrific and have a double meaning. Macbeth must put on a face to hide his murder to become the king. The double meaning is how Macbeth looks like a hero to all of Scotland, but only the people on the inside know of his horrific actions. He had to murder to to get the position of King, but the

laugh to scorn / The power of man, for none born of woman / Shall harm Macbeth."

The writer, Shakespeare, illustrates to the audience that the consequences do not just affect the person who have the ambitions, but it also affects the people around them. He does this by expressing the ambition through the characters of Macbeth and his wife Lady Macbeth. Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are shown to be ambitious and their ambition feeds off of each other. Macbeth is initially shown to the audience as a brave and selfless soldier who is loyal to his king till the day he dies. But, once Macbeth hears the prophecy of the three witches’, (that he will become the King of Scotland), Macbeth changes. He develops a deep, dark and horrible ambition of ruthlessly murdering the king and taking his place. Macbeth then writes to Lady Macbeth telling her of his ambitions. This leads to Lady Macbeth provoking Macbeth’s ambitions instead of telling him to forget about it. As she provokes Macbeth the audience can clearly see that this woman is bad news. “Was the hope drunk?Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since?... and wakes it now, to look so green and pale which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I

“...it's true that some of the most terrible things in the works are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best” (Terry Pratchett). In Shakespeare’s play, The Scottish Play, Macbeth is driven by selfish desires to take his fate into his own hands and go to extremes to obtain the title of King of Scotland. At the start of his pursuit for power his actions are planned and his first murder has real meaning behind it. Next, Macbeth targets the man who will father future kings. Finally, Macbeth becomes so paranoid and overcome with guilt that he has innocent women and children murdered. What starts as selfish ambition can quickly grow into an all consuming force, causing one to abandon one's honor, lose friends

When Macbeth is greeted by his wife she wants to tempt him into going ahead with her plans. He does not want to commit regicide against the king so disregards her ideas, but Macbeth’s ambitions and desires get the better of him and he eventually agrees.

Throughout Macbeth, characters were seen influencing others with their own ambition. One such instance was displayed via Macbeth’s interactions with his wife. Shakespeare revealed that Lady Macbeth was even more ambitious (and cruel) than her husband in Act 1, Scene 5 when Lady Macbeth states:

Macbeth reveals what people will go through to get what they want even if it means becoming corrupt and cruel. Macbeth written by William Shakespeare in 1606 is a play about a man named Macbeth and his wife wanting to become king and queen of Scotland. They will do whatever it takes to get what they want even if that means murder. This is one Shakespeare’s many tragic plays. Through the murder of Macduff's kids, Shakespeare explores the immorality that power gives.

Macbeth already had a strong ambition to become king after the witches prophecies, but his wife is what caused him to act upon his ambition and not in the best of ways. Lady Macbeth was a key influence on Macbeth's ambition overruling his moral character. Lady Macbeth throughout the book kept telling Macbeth he was acting like a woman and not a man. She also told Macbeth “art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valot As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem’st

Macbeth’s desire for power drives him to many murderous actions, which eventually leads to corruption. Macbeth begins the play with pure intentions, and first, denies Lady Macbeth’s evil plan to murder King Duncan. Macbeth tells his wife, after her first try of persuading him, “We will proceed no further in this business, He hath honored me of late, and I have bought Golden opinions from all

Macbeth: Paulo Friere once said, “One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.” Macbeth is a Shakespearian play highlighting manipulation – and allowing it to overpower who you really are to get what you want. Throughout the play, Macbeth’s attitude is constantly shifting and his level of morality continues to decrease further and further until his death. Due to this behavior shift, his relationships with friends and his wife are regularly reducing. Macbeth went from honorable and liked to un-loyal and hated – all due to his wife’s selfish motives for hopes of Macbeth becoming the King.

Throughout the play Macbeth, we see how the prophecy, told by the three witches at the beginning of the play, is used as a basis for the decisions made by both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. The decision they made henceforth, was to take matters into their own hands to make sure the prophecy comes true. Believing there would be no consequences for their actions, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth carried out their malicious plan. Later, Macbeth returns to the three witches to learn more about his future. Considering the prophecies of Birnam Wood moving and one not born of woman killing Macbeth seeming unlikely, Macbeth continued to commit crimes with the hopes of gaining what was told he would have, the throne of Scotland.

Macbeth drives himself with ambition, causing him to make controversial choices. His wife, Lady Macbeth, strongly influences his decisions, an unheard of phenomenon for the 11th century. Lady Macbeth, like the little devil sitting on Macbeth’s shoulder, commands him to commit acts

This clearly proves Lady Macbeth’s motive as she directs others to complete the sinful act of murder to obtain power for them. Moreover, this shows Macbeth’s desire for power by complying and obeying Lady Macbeth’s instruction to kill someone similar to God. This reveals that Macbeth and his wife are fearless as they know that their acts are immoral, but they still continue to do so. Temptation also reveals people’s greedy, treacherous characters that is seen in figures such as Macbeth and his wife, who were willing to kill significant others in their lives to become King and