Tragity In Shakespeare's Macbeth

The Macbeth's have a very unsteady relationship and from the beginning it is known that Lady Macbeth is the one who plays out the dominant role in their marriage. She is ambitious and power hungry and won't let anyone or anything get in the way of her pertaining the throne. Lady Macbeth is ambitious in her doings and she is more driven by her determination than Macbeth. Right after reading the letter she received from Macbeth, she realizes that he has power and ambition but lacks the will to seek it through. Luckily, Lady Macbeth quickly turns to murder and realizes although Macbeth is a coward, she holds enough ambition and strength for the both of them, "Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be / What thou art promised ; yet do I fear thy nature, /

As being the dominated one in their relationship Lady Macbeth uses all her control over Macbeth to make Macbeth murder king Duncan. She also challenges his patriarchy to make him murder the King. For example, when Lady Macbeth says "When you durst do it, then you were a man." Now that Macbeth is trying to back out of it, Lady Macbeth is calling him a coward and torments him to do the murdering. She also says " Wouldst thou have that which thou esteem'st the ornament of life and live a coward in thine own esteem..." In other words, Lady Macbeth uses the power of love to persuade him. She also says if you love me you would kill him straight away with no hesitation. Lady Macbeth says "I have given suck and know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums and dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this." In this quotation Lady Macbeth stirs Macbeth even more when Lady Macbeth challenges their love relationship on the basis of the decision, he eventually gives in and murders King Duncan.

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Macbeth needed Lady Macbeth to do this, for without her, he would have continued to see the horrible act as something he shouldn’t do. In this regard, Lady Macbeth does this very well, she makes Macbeth see things in a different light, tells him how he is erroneous in his thinking and gets him to think how she wants him to. The following quote shows these domineering and manipulating qualities of hers quite well: “Art thou afeard/To be the same in thine own act and valor/As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that…/And live a coward in thine own esteem,/Letting ‘I dare not’ wait upon ‘I would’/Like the poor cat I’ the adage?” (1.7.43-49) This passage of Lady Macbeth also sums up her thoughts quite nicely: “What beast was’t it then/… made you break this enterprise…/when you durst do it, then you were a man,/…to be more than what you were, you would/Be so much more the man.” (1.7.53-57) Both of these quotations display Lady Macbeth’s thoughts about Macbeth: he is weak, and he must be a man, while she is strong and would do the murder without a thought. These thoughts clearly show how ambitious she is, and how determined she wants to influence Macbeth’s actions.

In lady Macbeth’s argument she holds a seductive and demanding tone. She believes in Macbeth’s ambition and wants him to kill the King once and for all. Lady Macbeth begins to attack Macbeth’s character and provokes him to kill King Duncan by saying, “What beast was ’t, then, That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man,” (Lady Macbeth,1.7,47-51) Through this quote it’s easy to see that Lady Macbeth is aware of Macbeth’s vulnerability so she attacks his manhood making him feel less of a man for going back on his word. In order to put her plans in action she uses a heavy pathos appeal in the following lines, “From this time Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act and valor As thou art in desire… ornament of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem, letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would,” (Lady Macbeth,1.7,39-44) Through this quote Lady Macbeth makes Macbeth feel sympathetic and cowardice for not following his desires, she uses their love and how she will view him to lure him into the plan even more. While Macbeth may still be weary Lady Macbeth uses an ethos appeal by establishing her authority on the topic of killing King Duncan, “We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we’ll

Macbeth is a play rife with tragedy. Written by William Shakespeare most probably in the year 1606, the play was very loosely based on somewhat true events. The play focuses on Macbeth’s rise to power, and then his subsequent demise shortly thereafter. Macbeth's ambitions were too big, and the choices that he made were the wrong ones. If he had never chosen to kill the King, then he would not have been killed in return. And while prophecies were made that predicted what would happen, Macbeth was the one that set them into motion, and he was the only one responsible for his own death.

After hearing the prophecy that he will become king, Macbeth resolves to leave his future up to fate proving his pride and prestige are very important to him. Once he is told of Malcolm being named successor to the throne, Macbeth decides that if he is going to reach his goal he cannot leave it up to luck. Again Macbeth’s resolve to murder Duncan wavers when he leaves the grand banquet to assess his situation and decide whether he wants to proceed. His arguments include wishing to keep his honor and not kill Duncan for Duncan is there ‘in double trust’. Thus, Macbeth is shown to be clinging to his honor. Finally, Macbeth must stand his ground one last time against his wife who uses tact to emasculate Macbeth. In his final attempt to stop the whole ordeal before it can start Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth that he does not want to ‘cast aside’ the honor he has just recently received. Unfortunately, Lady Macbeth will have none of what her husband is saying and so convinces Macbeth to follow through with his plan of murdering King Duncan. Hence, the audience is given the first example of how powerful selfish motives are and how quickly they can spread to others along with cause them to perform unthinkable

To begin with, Lady Macbeth is forcing Macbeth to kill Duncan so they can be King and Queen. Macbeth is not sure that he wants

But despite Macbeth’s desire to take the throne, he does not want to kill Duncan. What pushes Macbeth over the edge is Lady Macbeth. She tells Macbeth to follow his ambitions and kill Duncan. She says that murdering Duncan is not a sin, and that it is all worth it for the crown. These words from Lady Macbeth’s mouth are what made Macbeth decide to follow through and commit murder. “I am settled and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat.” (1.7.92-93). Macbeth will do the act, but he is very reluctant to do so. In conclusion, Macbeth’s ambitions and his loyalty towards Lady Macbeth are huge factors for why Macbeth was torn, and why he decided to kill Duncan.

Lady Macbeth wants to be Queen, she wanted the power that goes along with it. In order to gain the power, she most desperately seeks, she will have to convince Macbeth to go through with her plan. Macbeth in the beginning of the play is someone who is noble and does not kill but, Lady Macbeth thinks “too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness” (pg.361 line 16). Macbeth is too good of a man to kill, knowing this Lady Macbeth tricks him into thinking “such I account thy love. Art thou afeard” (line 39).

Another important component for manipulating the main lead was Macbeth’s wife, Lady Macbeth. Following the discovery of the prophecy and Macbeth switching back and forth between killing the king or not, she responds by berating him and questioning his “esteem.” “Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life/And live a coward in thine own esteem/Letting ‘I dare not’ wait upon ‘I would’/Like the poor cat i’ th’ adage.” The overall idea Lady Macbeth is trying to convey in this part is that Macbeth is continuously backing out or having second thoughts and as she said, is being a coward in her eyes. According to the final line, Lady Macbeth felt as if Macbeth had plans for the murder of Duncan, but he was not taking any action.

It’s obvious that Lady Macbeth is power hungry, and she uses manipulation to feed her ambition. Through Macbeth, she wants Duncan murdered so that the two can become both king and queen. Lady Macbeth entices Macbeth to murder Duncan, doing so by expressing that she needs to be more like a man to get what

Lady Macbeth is a very strong and manipulative women. She is ambitious for her husband’s glory. The witches tell Macbeth about the prophecy of him becoming The Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland. He seems very excited. His wife Lady Macbeth later reads about the prophecy and automatically thinks murder. “Yet do I fear thy nature, it is too full o’th’ milk of human kindness” (1, 5, 4). Lady Macbeth knows her husband is ambitious as well. But he’s more kind. His kindness takes over. He doesn’t have the nerve to go through with it. Lady Macbeth wants King Duncan dead. She can’t kill her herself because Duncan reminds her of her father. She then tries convincing her husband to committee the murder. “I laid the daggers ready: he could not miss ‘em. Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t” (2, 2, 4). She was about to do it herself. She couldn’t have gone through that big of a bad deed because King Duncan looked too much like her father. Lady Macbeth knows her husband is too kind. She is going to manipulate him into taking action and getting that crown. She does this by starting to question his manhood. Thou wouldst be great. Art not without ambition, but without The illness should

Deemed Shakespeare’s shortest and most bloody tragedy, Macbeth is the tale of a valiant Scottish general whose unchecked ambition elicited his transformation into an immoral and tyrannical ruler. The story follows Macbeth’s encounter with the three Weird Sisters whose ambivalent “prophecies” prompted him to murder King Duncan and ultimately triggered his moral decline.