Macbeth: Emotionless Response To Wife's Death

This scene marks the promised demise of Macbeth, and good once again conquering evil. His ambitions overall lead to his demise, and if he had either followed his orders from the King, who is a higher being on the ‘Chain of Being’, or gained the royal, majestic position through an accepted process, then his death would not have been sentenced and

As Lady Macbeth receives the message from her husband claiming that he has earned the title of Thane of Cawdor she is very proud and grateful to have such a successful husband. “Glamis thou art… yet I do fear thy nature; it is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness… thou wouldest be great, art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it. What thou wouldest highly…” Although she is proud of him there is an undertone of doubt and belief that he could do more. She loves him undoubtedly and wants the best for him. When she asks of him to fulfill the strangest of deeds he contemplates “if we should fail?” They are a team, everything they plot they do together. They are honest and wholesome with each other. As they successfully gain the title of king and queen of Scotland, their relationship starts to hinder. They fight more frequently, almost growing out of the honeymoon state of marriage and into a business like attire. As the power and murders incline, all honesty is shot. Macbeth no longer tells Lady Macbeth of the innocent blood on his hands. This environment holds no hope for a relationship to last. The guilt and dishonesty between them separates them from even having a casual chat. They have become so consumed with what they have done that they have no room to remember each other. As Lady Macbeth kills herself, Macbeth just simply says, “She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word.” He looks at her dislodged

    "...Go pronounce his present death,/ And with his former title greet Macbeth."  (Act 1, Scene 2, 64-65)     Though the word "death" in this sentence refers to the former thane of Cawdor's demise, Shakespeare uses the clever trick of foreshadowing Macbeth's downfall by coupling the word "death" with the word "Macbeth" so early in the tragedy.  The quote has another importance  it introduces the ideas of treachery and personal gain from less-than-legitimate means, two characteristics Macbeth picks up on as the story advances.  We are introduced to Macbeth as a hero, a slayer of the Norweyans, even "Bellona's bridegroom, lapped in proof" (Act 1, Scene 2, 54), but by the end of the play

In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth the reader watches as Macbeth changes gradually as the play endures. He are transforms from a loyal person with a loving and loyal disposition with other people, into a tyrants who are willing to kill in order to keep himself on the throne. He is tormented with fear, regret, and guilt. When someone does something they know is wrong it causes them to fall prey to their own emotions.

She is saying that Macbeth is ambitious but lacks the brutality of character (the illness) to carryout any evil deeds through. After this Lady Macbeth continues on, trying to convince Macbeth to murder Duncan and eventually succeeds. From the end of the first Act through the 2nd, Lady Macbeth has shown her “innocent-self” perfectly capable of committing heinous deeds. Yet eventually the “illness” gets the better of her, as it did Macbeth, and she kills herself unable to stand living with her burdens.

In lines 17-23 the message conveyed is everyday is just another day closer to your death that is inevitable. This is shown by the repetition of tomorrow when Macbeth says “ tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.”(19) This shows the dread of going onto the next day because it will not lead to anything different. Macbeth also uses a cold tone that is conveyed when he says “ She should have died hereafter.”(17) This allows the audience to see how disconnected Macbeth is because Macbeth feels that everyone is similar and it doesn’t matter what happens. Finally, Shakespeare uses depressing diction to such as “petty”(20), “fools”(22) and “dusty.”(23) This shows how low Macbeth views life and people as a

The story “The Tragedy Of Macbeth” also called The Scottish Play was written in 1606, by William Shakespeare. The story takes place in Scotland where King Duncan is in charge the country. Macbeth who is the Thames of Glamis, will go on an adventure to take leadership of the country of Scotland, while he also battles with his personal insanity along the way. Macbeth will eventually be King of Scotland and have a miserable reign due to his guilt, inadequacy and tyranny.

significance is that Lady Macbeth could never break her promises/vows. The meaning includes Lady Macbeth giving an example to Macbeth of how loyal she feels she must remain in keeping a promise. She says that even though she knows the pleasure of nursing a child, if promised to kill him, she will, even if he is looking up at her smiling.

Shakespeare’s plays and books consist of many emotions such as sadness, anger, joyfulness and curiosity. It is also filled with people who like to prey on innocent human beings, such as Lady Macbeth. Throughout this whole book Lady macbeth is tampering with Macbeth’s manhood, using him like à sock puppet to play with his emotions. Lady Macbeth is à very pessimistic and gloomy person, and this side of her personality often comes out when she is alone with Macbeth. The main emotion of Macbeth anger, anger comes into play when Lady Macbeth wants Macbeth to be à man and kill Duncan so she can become queen. When he becomes king but when he tries to chicken out, she starts to bash him by questioning his manhood and calling him all kinds of cowards. So the question we ask ourselves is how can us women made of innocence and purity possibly commit à crime and fall into the role of à bully.

When she commits suicide, however; Macbeth declares “Life’s but a walking shadow.” (V:v, 24). His expression denotes how insignificant and empty life is. At this point, Macbeth is on the verge of falling apart. His experience differs from the beginning of the tragedy producing a major personality transformation.

Throughout the play of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth has many different emotions. She is very demanding and in control of what she wants people to do. She is very confident in her plans that they will get done. But also, there are times when she may feel weak or scared to do something. She forces Macbeth to go along with the plan to kill Duncan so he can be King and she will be Queen. Lady Macbeth is sure that they will not get caught witheir plans and they will be safe. She is nervous though when it is time to kill Duncan because he looks like her father. Lady Macbeth shows lots of emotions during the play.

These lines are important to the plot in the play because they set up a downward spiral for Macbeth. Macbeth had Macduff's wife and babes slaughtered. This shows just how crazy Macbeth had become. It also how ever fired up Macduff and Malcolm."Let's make us medicines of our great revenge,To cure this deadly grief." They will convert their anger and grief into fuel to evoke their vengeance on Macbeth.

Throughout the play, Lady Macbeth is known to be a powerful, ruthless, assertive and strong woman who is capable of manipulating and persuading anyone in order to get what she wants. She is portrayed as a woman who cannot be tamed and never shows weakness until her last appearance in the play and the most important scene of the play, Act 5 scene 1. Looking back at the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth always persisted to be in absolute darkness, while in this scene she is obsessed with having a light next to her. The Gentlewoman who is watching her tells the Doctor “Why, it stood by her. She has light by her continually. T’is her command” (Shakespeare, V I 23-24). This demonstrates a dramatic change in her. The candle represents one single fragile light in the darkness of her soul. That light in her soul is a symbol of goodness and virtue. This is very revealing about Lady Macbeth, because it proves that she is not completely evil

In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth goes through many emotions and feelings. It’s important for people to express their feelings and emotions, but do they know how to control what they are feeling? People often keep their emotions bottled up such as Lady Macbeth does, which can cause negative emotional reactions. William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth shows how Lady Macbeth experiences many emotions and keeps them bottled up, which eventually causes her to lose control of her own emotions and thoughts. People need to learn how to express and control their emotions to avoid negative reactions, such as what Lady Macbeth has come to experience.

Another idea expressed in this soliloquy is the opposition of light and darkness as symbols of life and death.  The tone is set right after Macbeth hears of his queen's death.  He now feels necessary to comment on life seeing his hopes turn to ashes.  When Macbeth says, "tomorrow creeps in this petty pace" brings a negative connotation to tomorrow.  Tomorrow keeps coming slowly until one day it will attack.  Macbeth, now, views life as a slow petty progression and tomorrow as unrelenting thus this increases its negative and dark connotations.  "Tomorrow creeps . . . to the last syllable of recorded time", with these remarks Macbeth presents his hopeless outlook on life.  His feels time will come until it succeeds in taking