Lady Macbeth Power Quotes

Lady Macbeth is shown as being a very dominant, ambitious, and power driven person at the very beginning of the play when she is first introduced. When Lady Macbeth first appears in the play, she is learning of the witches prophesies from a letter sent to her by Macbeth. The witches prophesies reveals that Macbeth is destined to be King.When Lady Macbeth finds out that her husband, Macbeth was going to be King to the throne, she automatically sets her sights on obtaining that power. At this point in the Lady Macbeth plans for King Duncan to be killed in order for Macbeth to be on the throne, and for Lady Macbeth to obtain the power that she craves and desires so much. However, she does not believe that Macbeth is strong enough to do what she need him to do. So she

Although Oliver Sacks did not speak about this disorder in his analysis of Dr.P many greek tales and other plays written by Macbeth have showed that people that gain power through immoral ways tend to get very paranoid over their power. For example when Chronos bore the 12 original Olympians he feared that they would eventually grow up and take his throne, so he ate them. Another example might be from Macbeth when Duncan 's sons are accused of killing their own father to gain the throne. Also like in many of these tales this brings their own downfall, a sort of karma. When Macbeth becomes so paranoid over power and kills Banquo his nobles leave him and in the end he is killed. Just like Zues who eventually rose up and threw Chronos into the pits or Tantalus

How much power do we have over our lives? This question has been debated for centuries through stories, poems, and plays. While we may never know if there is such a thing as fate, we do know that there are many things that can influence the path we chose in our life. In the fictional play Macbeth, Shakespeare uses characterization to show that if the darkness of man is left untamed, it will destroy all that is pure.

Of course, we know that Macbeth (with some encouragement from his wife) does murder Duncan.

Secondly, Ralph is not only a rational leader but also a moral person, who cleverly keeps the fairness in his group. “Ralph, looking more understanding at Piggy, saw that he was hurt and crushed. He hovered between the two courses of apology or further insult ‘Better Piggy than Fatty” (25). Ralph is sincere and considerate for other people. He apparently understand their feeling and particularly shows his sympathy for Piggy. Ralph is sensible enough to realize that everyone deserves to be respected. He believes no one should have to put up with being tormented. Ralph gently gains others’ support by treating them equally, showing his compassion and ability to empathize with them. Opposite to Ralph, Jack is immoral, violent and condescending. “He’s going to beat Wilfred” (159). He does not care or understand the natural equality of

He is seen as a leader who provides assurance causing everyone to respect and listen to him but when the power begins to shift into Jack’s favour, fewer people listens to what Ralph has to say. Ralph’s fear of being outcasted from Jack’s growing group of followers, caused him to do treat Piggy poorly. He wanted to feel included by Jack,so he began to imitate Jack’s cruelty on top of the mountain. After Jack attacked piggy, Ralph snatched the glasses off of Piggy’s face and handed it over to Jack. Ralph disregarded Piggy’s pleas, making it evident that the respect for others on the island was rapidly declining due to Jack’s power inclining.

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.

Lady Macbeth is a powerful, manipulative character in Shakespeare's Macbeth. She lacks humanity and is ambitious for her husband to become king and for lady Macbeth to become queen. However, lady Macbeth fails to withstand her own ruthlessness as she becomes mentally deranged and takes her own life. Lady Macbeth is ambitious and prays to the spirits to deprive her of feminine instinct to care, 'unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the topful of direst cruelty'.

Jack, a symbol of a dictatorship, is a foil of Ralph, who symbolizes a democracy. From the start of the novel, Jack has always been power hungry and has an animalistic bloodlust he feels the need to fulfill. When the twins, Sam and Eric, claim to have seen the beast, Ralph calls for another assembly. Ralph attempts to stay sensible and refuses to believe that there’s a real beast on the island. On the other hand, Jack believes in the beast and is eager to hunt it down, which gains support and approval from the other boys. When Piggy tries to give his input on the situation, he gets cut off by Jack and tries fighting for his right to speak by mentioning the conch, to which Jack replies, “We don’t need the conch anymore. We know who ought to say things [...] It’s time some people know they gotta stay quiet and leave the deciding to the rest of us.” (102). By interrupting Piggy, who has the conch in his hands, Jack is going against Ralph’s rules and challenging his and the conch’s authority. Furthermore, Jack’s tyrannical behavior is clearly seen during this scene especially because he’s belittling some boys’s opinions and claims that they shouldn’t even partake in decision

The two are polar opposites as Piggy seeks the aid of logical thinking to solve problems while Jack seeks violent action. This leads to Piggy being tormented by Jack as the two cannot make decisions without conflict. During times when the two boys do agree, they cannot admit that they think the same way. Because Piggy’s advantage over Jack is within the mind, physically, he cannot defend himself from Jack’s bully advances. As Piggy becomes the oppressed, and Jack the oppressor, Piggy’s character begins to evolve an understanding of the human nature behind Jack’s initial hatred towards him. In order to prevent Ralph from resigning as chief, Piggy explains to him that “‘[he has] done some thinking’” and he “know[s] about people,’” including Jack, therefor Ralph should remain chief because “‘[Jack] can’t hurt [Ralph]: but if [Ralph stands] out of the way he’d hurt the next thing,’” that being Piggy (Golding

In her first opening scene Lady Macbeth's power goes into question when she calls upon “Spirits that tend on mortal thoughts” to deprive her of her feminine instinct to care so that she may commit an act she will later on regret. In act 1 scene 5 she states “ Come, you spirits that assist murderous thoughts, make me less like a woman and more like a man, and feel me from head to toe with deadly cruelty! Thicken my blood and clog my veins so that I feel no remorse, so that no human compassion can stop my evil plan or prevent me from accomplishing it! Come to my breast in turn my mother’s milk into poisonous acid…”. Calling upon these demons only to help her husband commit an act of betrayal It is very lucid to see why Lady Macbeth is willing to go through such drastic measures in order to be queen in have that power in which she is hungry

Ralph and Jack and their ideas to survive are very different compared to Piggy and his ideas. These show how Jack and Ralph are still not able to understand that they are on a island and they will eventually die in the future, and when told that they do not care. Throughout the story, Jack is very aggressive towards others and likes to be rude to others purposefully. However, Ralph is rude but he does not he is rude towards people, and he does not know what to do as leader, survival wise. These characteristics show how they are not suited for leader because they do not take suggestions from others and also are rude to other which creates a biased opinion towards a suggestion.

In the play Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is one of the most significant characters because of her ambition and urge for power. From the start, she was described to be stronger than her husband Macbeth and as a result, pushed him to kill Duncan in order for Macbeth to become King of Scotland. She made this decision to satisfy her hunger for power. However, she took the decision to want power as an obsession because women were viewed as powerless and unimportant human beings that were only there to conceive an offspring and satisfy their husband's needs. Lady Macbeth says “ Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty.

As much as she tries, Lady Macbeth is still human with powerful qualities, which can be perceived as good and bad. However, even though she has powerful qualities, she does not have power over Macbeth. Before killing Duncan, Lady Macbeth wanted the “spirits that tend on mortal thoughts” to “unsex” her, which can be perceived as the gender supremacy roles that Shakespeare plays on. By doing so, she can feel more powerful, as men were thought to be the dominant gender in that era. She was the one initially wanted to commit a horrible deed to become queen, but does not have the strength to do it because if “had he not resembled [her] father as [Duncan] slept, [she would’ve] done’t.” Macbeth ends up killing Duncan and retains his manliness and proves his gender dominance as well. Lady Macbeth only believed that “when [Macbeth] durst do it, then [he] were a man.” Her belittling was not good for their relationship and Lady Macbeth doesn’t end up knowing what Macbeth has been doing and planning. She even takes her own life just before Macbeth is slain by Macduff and was not around to help or control the position that Macbeth had got himself stuck in. If Lady Macbeth doesn’t know what Macbeth is up to, there is no way she could be the main dominant

Why did not Ralph act like Jack although their characteristics are quite different? What made Ralph behave morally? In contrast, what did Jack need to stop falling into “evil” actions? One of the possibilities of this situation is the existence of Piggy, who was the supporter or adviser of Ralph. It seems like Jack really hates Piggy, and he had lots of rude actions to Piggy. Even though his characteristic is quite aggressive, his attacking to Piggy is too strong. I think Jack could be envious of Ralph because he does not have a person who can help him like Piggy for Ralph. Therefore, Jack attacked and overbore Piggy to change his mind not to help Ralph anymore. “From his left hand dangled Piggy’s broken glasses”