Lady Macbeth: a Wife in Support of Her Husband

Lady Macbeth is a very egocentric woman. She fails to have any concern over Macbeth’s interests, and she does not consider his decisions. This lack of care for her husband is shown many times throughout the play, and it is more predominantly shown in the first two acts. Lady Macbeth believes that Macbeth has the same viewpoints as her. Because of this, instead of asking if he wants to do something, she tells him what they are going to do. If Macbeth tries to protest against her thoughts or actions, she convinces him to believe in her and do as she says using a variety of tactics. Lady Macbeth does not have Macbeth’s best interest at heart because she manipulated him, she took matters into her own hand,

His next targets are Banquo and Fleance. Macbeth hires murderers to kill them both. The murderers successfully kill Banquo but Fleance escapes. Macbeth becomes king and hosts a banquet. The guilt comes back. Macbeth acknowledges. “When now I think you can behold such sights, and keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, when mine is blanch’d with fear” (3.4.45). Macbeth thinks everyone at the table can see Banquo’s ghost when really he is the only one who sees it. Everyone is confused and concerned because Macbeth is going crazy and practically yelling at an empty chair. Macbeth almost spills the truth that he was the one who arranged Banquo’s death. Also, Lady Macbeth claims that, “I pray you, speak not; he grows worse and worse; Question enrages him; at once, good night: stand not upon the order of your going, but go at once” (3.4.45). Lady Macbeth tries to cover the up the outburst by telling their quests that Macbeth is not well. She knows that the guilt is taking over him because he initially did not want to kill

This shows that he no longer needs Lady Macbeth and shows how far he is willing to go to have

“Macbeth” by William Shakespeare shows the effect of greed/power on a relationship. Is gaining power more important than a relationship? When Macbeth usurps the throne as King of Scotland, he puts aside his relationships to carry out his work as king, and his relationship with Lady Macbeth is, as a result, impacted. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s relationship shifts somewhat and yet partly remains the same when Macbeth is crowned king of Scotland. Macbeth’s relationship remains the same in that he shows Lady Macbeth respect and continues to use words of love to call her by, but it shifts in that Macbeth becomes more independent and does not confide his plans to Lady Macbeth as he had previously.

The Importance of Lady Macbeth's Influence on Her Husband Lady Macbeth possesses the power to influence her husband‘s decisions in a negative manner. She is stronger, more ruthless and more ambitious than Macbeth. Throughout Shakespeare’s tragic play, the theme of ambition is raised constantly, and the character who shows most ambition than any other at the beginning is Lady Macbeth. Macbeth proves to be a man who is greatly influenced by his wife’s ideas and ambition at the start of the play. When Lady Macbeth is introduced, she is immediately starts plotting

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the title character Macbeth and his wife are both exceptionally ambitious, often taking rather radical measures to accomplish their goals. While this ruthless drive to power is seemingly prosperous at first, it quickly crumbles to naught as guilt infects their minds with grim consequences to follow. Macbeth transforms from a noble general to a guilt-ridden and despaired murderer, while Lady Macbeth’s usually stoic and masculine persona deteriorates into a pitiful and anxious shell of her former self. The feeling of remorse quickly plagues the two characters and overpowers ambition through manifesting itself through nightmares, ghosts, and paranoia, and ultimately leads to their demise.

She holds Macbeth together when the guilt gets to him and explains to him to shake it off and that he’s done nothing wrong.

This is Macbeth’s tragic flaw, he is so worried about what Lady Macbeth thinks of him and wants so badly to please her, because he loves her endlessly, that he is willing to do whatever she says. As Shanley points out, “She [Lady Macbeth] could sway him because she understood him and loved him, and because he loved her and depended on her love and good thoughts of him.” affirming that Lady Macbeth was able to convince Macbeth to do anything (308).

Behind every successful man there is a ruthless woman pushing him along to gain her own personal successes. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Lady Macbeth causes Macbeths downfall. With the faults and lies of Lady Macbeth, marriage is Macbeth’s big mistake. Lady Macbeth turns his courageous conquests on the fields of war into butchery. Mangled by the blood-spotted hands of his wife he becomes a traitor to himself, the people around him, and even her.

Have you ever been tempted to do something you know is wrong by the fear that you won't be good enough if you don't? Like when you and your bestfriend take your moms car without a driver's license, just to feel the adrenaline run through your veins. This is similar to the decisions that Lady Macbeth and her husband make throughout the play. Lady Macbeth is bored in her life, and desires something to fill up the empty hole left from losing her baby. When people are living in a world of doubt and temptation, they project their own fears on others, which causes them to make regretful decisions.

In this essay I will be comparing Sheila and lady Macbeth's relationship to their husband, at the start of the play, Sheila and Gerald have known each other for some time, and they are here celebrating their engagement in which Sheila is really happy with, in the middle she starts to gain some power and by the end she is fully in power and tells her family what to do. Gerald comes from a rich, powerful, well-respected family. At the start of Macbeth, lady Macbeth is in control of the relationship, she starts as the man of the relationship to typical Jacobean women as she suicides and kill herself at the end.

Lady Macbeth runs away from punishment as she attempts to stay innocent which at the end of the day comes to haunt her, making her feel guilty. She conceals evidence and frames guards to protect herself. After Macbeth kills Duncan while he was sleeping, he goes back to lady Macbeth. He tells her that one the servants were laughing and one verbally expresses “murder!” in his sleep.

Using metaphor, personification, and rhyme, William Shakespeare’s Macbeth depicts the exchange of power in Macbeth and Lady Macbeths relationship throughout the play. Lady Macbeth, in Act I, holds power over Macbeth. She receives a letter from Macbeth explaining The Witches predictions of Macbeth’s future. She thinks that Macbeth is too kind to kill the king so she decides she will, “… pour my spirits in thine ear.

The women in Macbeth, namely Lady Macbeth, contradict these expectations through their commanding, and ambitious tones. During that second half of act one Lady Macbeth is portrayed as the ruling figure in the house. Instead of being a grateful and fulfilling housewife she instead pushes and commands Macbeth to commit assassination. She berates him when he falters and asked if he would rather, “live like a coward in thine own esteem.” (Shakespeare)

The relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth is one with a power imbalance, where Lady Macbeth manipulates Macbeth to carry out her will. Notably, this is seen when Macbeth becomes reluctant to kill Duncan, despite the fact that if he does so - according to the witches’ prophecy - he will become King. Macbeth remembers that he is Duncan’s “kinsman and his subject” and owes him absolute loyalty. As a result, Macbeth almost changes his decision to assassinate Duncan. However, when Macbeth declares to his wife that he “will proceed no further in this business [of killing Duncan],” Lady Macbeth calls him a “coward” and questions his masculinity, telling him that he would do it if he “were a man.”