Lady Macbeth Quotes Analysis

“My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white. I hear a knocking at the south entry. Retire we to our chamber; a little water clears us of this deed. How easy is it then! Your constancy hath left you unattended”. (Act 2 Scene 2, Lines 67-72)

Visualize being in MacBeth’s place, you are announced Thane of Cawdor after your heroic leadership on the battlefield, why would you thirst for a higher rank? Although you may be content with your position, there are many reasons why you would want more power. Your rank becomes very close to that of a king, so you decide to go for it, after all, all you have to do to be king is to kill Duncan. As your sight of kingship would become realistic, your rapacity grows, and you start making nefarious decisions that would affect your disposition. As an effect of your changed mindset, your nobles start to become suspicious that you are deranged. Little do they know they are all pawns in your game of life and your scheme to become king is going impeccably

Lady Macbeth's ambitious nature was a large part of the play. Lady Macbeth often brought Macbeth's manhood into question whenever he was weary of going through with something, even something as atrocious as murder. For example, “Yet do I fear thy nature; / It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way”(1.5.14-16). In this quote she basically says that he is too much of a wuss to follow through with their plan to elevate their social status. Lady Macbeth was also the one who planted the daggers on the guards when Macbeth couldn't follow through with it. If she hadn't have done that there is a good chance that they could have been caught. She asks “Why did you bring these daggers from the place? / They must lie there:

Lady Macbeth in the beginning of the play is very manipulative, most of the times she manipulates her husband into doing either what she wants or what she thinks should do. Even though, Lady Macbeth is a woman she single-handedly planned Duncan’s murder, from how to execute it and how to pin it on someone else and at some points Macbeth did not want to do it, but she manipulated him into it. For example, when Macbeth does not want to carry one with this plan, Lady Macbeth convinces him by saying “from this time such I account thy love. Art thou afeared to be the same in thine own act and valor as thou art in desire? (I.vii line 38-41), in this this quote lady Macbeths is influencing her husband’s feelings. This is because she is challenging

I,Malcolm, let Macbeth do anything to be king. While I watch him ruin his legacy.Macbeth proves his loyalty to Duncan by serving him. Macbeth states, " the service and the loyalty I owe in doing it pays itself(I.iv.25) To avoid being taken advantage of, Macbeth must demonstrate that he is not weak. He fulfills this by taking the cowardly way out and murdering Duncan King of Scotland. He acts out because he is jealous and feels as if he deserves to be king. At this point once Macbeth displays that he is no longer loyal to his once King of Scotland, who said " for brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name"(I.ii.95). A disloyal Macbeth cannot accept the promotion to thane of Cawdor, so he get greedy and does the unthinkable. Macbeth says, "Let not light see my black and deep desires: the eye wink at the hand yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done to see"(I.ii.50-53). These words reveal Macbeth's deep desire to be king, after King Duncan announces that his son Malcolm will be the one to take the throne after him.

Some actresses see Lady Macbeth as sympathetic to her husband like Sarah Siddons and Kate Fleetwood, feeling sympathy for Macbeth is a decision both actresses made for Lady Macbeth to be relatable and more human, Siddons who portrayed her in the mid-1800s said that she approached her as, “keen to present the character in as attractive a light as possible, so sexually appealing – fair feminine, nay perhaps even fragile” (Sarah Siddons qtd. In Robert Miola, 94). Siddons saw the character of Macbeth as honorable and to have him as a husband only proves Lady Macbeth is very taken with him, having put all of her efforts into seducing such an honorable man. Kate Fleetwood’s own interpretation of Lady Macbeth was very domestic, the societal hostess. In an interview in 2011, Fleetwood who was directed by her husband Rupert Goold in the 2007 version of the play said that, “When Rupert suggested to me about the domestic side of her, that started to ring really big bells for me” (Fleetwood qtd. In Miola, 135). The argument about how Lady Macbeth truly loves her husband and tried to summons the spirits is because she knows that Macbeth is very ambitious, and she needs all the strength she can have to convince him to act out the three witches’ prophecy. This arguement and its solution is very valid, Lady Macbeth only acting out for the benefit of her husband, she wants her husband to be the king of Scotland but it does not mean she wants to queen herself. In an interview, Fleetwood also

Macbeth becomes paranoid that Banquo know what he has done. If the weird sisters prediction is right about Banquo being a father of a king which would be a threat to his crown. He reveals his plan to Lady Macbeth.

As soon as she was told there was a chance for power in her future she went crazy, scheming up plans to take the throne. She craves power and pushes her husband to kill for it. Her mind was constantly thinking about power, “This nights great business into my dispatch, which shall to all our nights and days to come Give solely sovereign sway masterdom” (1.5.80-83). Lady Macbeth will do anything to get power from her husband, so she starts to concoct plans to manipulate her husband into murdering King Duncan. Macbeth did not feel comfortable with killing King Duncan just to take the throne, but the persuasion of his wife made him realize the benefits of being king. Although she knew that murdering is wrong, her personal gain from the actions of murder is all she can think about. Lady Macbeth will go as far as drugging people to get access for her husband to kill the king, “That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold. What hath quenched them hath given me fire” (2.2.57). When the madness catches up with her, along with the guilt, she can not bear it anymore. As everything piles up, she starts to regret her past, taking her life to stop the

(Setting: mental hostipal; Macbeth- a patient that wants freedom and believes there is nothing wrong with him. Banquo- a normal person, Macbeth’s best friend who sent Macbeth to the mental ward and keeps thinking that is the best way to help him. Fleance- son of Banquo, has the same opinion with his father and thinks Macbeth is pitiful.

First off, Lady Macbeth is a character very much rooted in ambition. The authors use of masculinity versus femininity furthermore portrays the extent to which Lady Macbeth will go to ensure the success of her plan to kill the King. Her hunger for masculinity is first clearly portrayed through her use of the phrase “come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here.” This quote exemplifies her willingness to give up her femininity in exchange for masculine cruelty, which would ensure her success in carrying out the murder of King Duncan. Through this quote, Lady Macbeth directly opposes the Elizabethan expectation of women to be feeble, nurturers of life. Lady Macbeth did not believe that her husband had the means to become a strong

In William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth, the main character of the play, Macbeth, is consumed with the ambition to become king. Nobody will stand in Macbeth’s way of the power that comes with the crown, or so he believes. Since Macbeth is motivated by his wife, Lady Macbeth, and the witches, who are also known as the weird sisters, his decision to murder for power creates his fatal destiny. Macbeth’s behavior is motivated by the push he is given by Lady Macbeth and the witches to steal the power of being king from his own kinsmen, Duncan.

Lady Macbeth has some responsibility for the transition of Macbeth because when Macbeth was unsure if he should murder Duncan she said, “And to be more than what you were, you would, Be so much more the man… Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out” (1.7.50-51, 58-59). Lady Macbeth is pushing Macbeth so he would go through with his plans. Due to the support of Lady Macbeth, Macbeth now has a reason to carry out his plans. Lady Macbeth also is trying to get into Macbeth’s mind and trying to make him insecure so he would do as she suggested. Macbeth would be insecure because Lady Macbeth made a comment that he would not be a man if he did not kill Duncan. As the play continues Macbeth in his dagger speech says,

The book The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare is about a young nobleman from a village who is told a prophecy by three witches that he will one day become the king of Scotland. As a person who is known for his honesty and bravery, he is unsure about what to do about the prophecy but his wife, Lady Macbeth, had other plans in mind and decided that the only way for him to become king would be too murder King Duncan. Lady Macbeth’s thirst for power leads her to tempt her husband into committing the crime. After the deed is done, Lady Macbeth becomes engulfed with guilt. Throughout this journey, Lady Macbeth's life changes as her thirst for power consumes her morals and corrupts her soul with guilt.

Lady Macbeth like Macbeth, also had a restless desire, and will to power and worked to liberate the will to power in Macbeth. Lady Macbeth helped free Macbeth from his fear of damnation so he can commit murderous violence and cunning acts (Littell 435). Lady Macbeth states “We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place and we’ll not fail,” (Littell 358) as she encourages Macbeth to kill King Duncan in his sleep and Macbeth is afraid the plan will fail. It is very obvious that Lady Macbeth was willing to do anything it took in order for her husband Macbeth to become the king and have all the power. Macbeth was also willing to do anything Lady Macbeth asked of him as long as she stayed with him and she was

This is a soliloquy of Lady Macbeth in the play. She received a letter in which Macbeth told her of the witches’ prophecy and that changed Lady Macbeth from a femininity woman to a power-hungry woman and ready to gain what the prophecy promised to Macbeth. The croaked of the raven - crow was a foreshadowing of Ducan's death and he can't leave the castle alive in Macbeth's castle. Lady Macbeth said she could able to stop to feel pity and guilt in her mind because it prevents her from her ambition to take up the throne. She asked the spirits which symbolise for the evils in hell to remove her femininity of a woman represented by breasts and milk to let she performs cruelty and violence acts which it showed a manliness of a man. She also asked