Yet do I fear thy nature, / It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way.” (I.V.15-18).These lines tell how much she wants power so bad that she makes Macbeth feel unmanly by telling what she could do. Lady Macbeth shows devotion to making Macbeth King by planning ways that he can become king.
Outline Introduction: * Betrayal and deception play a big role in the play Macbeth, it tells us that you never know who you can trust or not. * The Three Witches, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth show us how someone that you once could trust, turns into someone you don’t recognize in a second. . First Main Point: The Witches * display evil power * change Macbeth into an evil man * not trusted Second Main Point: Macbeth * he betrays Duncan * betrays Banquo * became a murderer Third Main Point: Lady Macbeth * plans to kill Duncan to take over the throne for Macbeth * talking in her sleep, expressing the murder * deceives her king Conclusion: * good turns to evil, trust turn to betrayal
She becomes evil and ambitious before the murder of Banquo, and then she becomes fearful of her surroundings because of her guilt after Banquo's murder. Lady Macbeth develops her evil character by informing Macbeth about her idea of killing King Duncan and taking over the throne. "What beast was 't then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst to it, then you were a man; and to be more than what you were, you would be so much more than a man...When Duncan is asleep, his two chamberlains will I with wine and wassail so convince that memory, the warder of the brain, shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason a limbeck only..." said Lady Macbeth (I, VII, Lines 55-77). Lady Macbeth is convincing Macbeth about her plan to kill Duncan when he sleeps.
True masculinity is a conceptual fallacy. Macbeth’s hamartia is his indulgence in the concept of masculinity. Lady Macbeth, the main female protagonist demasculinizes Macbeth throughout the play for his lack of assertiveness. Manipulatively, she states to Macbeth, “What beast was’t then, /That made you break this enterprise to me? / When you durst do it, then you were a man” (1.7.47-49).. She defines manhood as stark aggression to achieve power in any means necessary such as killing Duncan.
You can tell that in the beginning Macbeth never wanted to kill Duncan; in act I witches come about and tell a prophesy that Macbeth will rule over Scotland, which puts the thought of killing Duncan in his head. “Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs, against the use of nature?,” in other words, he’s asking himself why he’s thinking of murdering Duncan when it makes his hair stand on end and his heart pound inside his chest, obviously he’s uncomfortable with the thought. Lady Macbeth does succeed in convincing him to kill King Duncan by calling him a coward saying he’s not a real man. Finally Macbeth cracks and goes through with it. After the sickening deed of murder had been completed, the next morning Lennox and Macduff, who had been called upon the king to
She deliberately raises Estella to be the tool of her revenge, training her beautiful ward to break men’s hearts. 1. Brief outline of ‘Macbeth’ The three witches tell Macbeth he will become thain of Cawdor and Glamis... and the king He then becomes the thain.. Then he tells his wife in a letter he wrote to her and she decides they need to kill the king Macbeth kills the king but his wife has to return the daggers to the guards because Macbeth didn’t, then
In England Macduff is trying to get Malcolm to come back and get his spot back as King. They agree to wage war against Macbeth. The witches tell him that any man born a woman cannot kill him. Act V: Lady Macbeth has gone crazy. She kills herself.
Macbeth being hesitant and indecisive allows Lady Macbeth to overcome and influence him to do any wicked deed. Lady Macbeth feels her husband lacks the drive and courage to go through with the assassination of King Duncan. She explains, “Glamis thou art, an Cawdor; and shalt be what thou art promis’d. –Yet do I fear thy nature: it is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness, to catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it” (I.v.15-20) With this, she realizes that Macbeth is to laid back or nonchalant when he is not on the battle field.
Point- The character Lady Macbeth places a plan to provide Macbeth false security. She states that security is a man’s most evil enemy. Quote 1- For example, when Hectate states "And you all know, security / Is mortals' chiefest enemy," (3.5. 32-33) Explain- Concluding sentence- Body Paragraph 4 Topic sentence- Point- Lady Macbeth fears that her husband does not have the courage to take the challenges to become a king; she tries different approaches and tactics to overcome her husband’s fears. Quote 1- Explain- When the lady Macbeth said unsex me here she went to the spirits to make her less lady like Quote 2- "too full o' the milk of human kindness" Concluding sentence- Concluding paragraph Thesis restate- The play Macbeth briefly demonstrates a significant role within the characters using quick tactics and strategies to manipulate and use super natural powers to have influence over others.
She is presented to the audience as a woman who has been hardened by her desires. “Yet do I fear thy nature; / it is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness…” (Lady Macbeth, I, v, 16-17). Pretty much saying, “you are too nice for your own good.” As we go on, we learn more about her and her strong will to get what she wants. “How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me. / I would, while it was smiling in my face, / have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums / and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you / have done this” (Lady Macbeth, I, vii, 63-67).