Romm concluded that even though Agrippina may have been manipulative and ambitious she was still able to achieve what women of the era could not. The write Cat Pierro’s argues that Agrippina the Younger’s life is one that is full of mistakes, the largest of which was giving birth Nero. Pierro interpretation of Agrippina is that she was an Austere , arrogant woman that would use her sexuality to gain power. She was jealous of any woman that tried to become close to her husband and then her son, even going as so far to order the execution of a women that her husband Claudius complimented. Eventually she vilified herself enough to turn herself not only to turn her son against her but most of the court as well.
In the extract Cleopatra is believed to be in love with Mark Anthony and shows a one sided love. Her undivided love to him is shown to be her weakness because her vulnerability is expressed and this is what Plutarch shows in the extract. ...'for here was a mistress who was utterly devoted to him alone, and he was killing her'... (Kilvert, S I. (trans) (1965, p320) Plutarch: Makers of Rome, Harmondsworth, Penguin). The use of the word 'mistress' explains her role at the time.
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.
Both Kreon and Antigone share hubris. According to Sophocles, the play “Antigone” Kreon discusses the love for ruling Thebes: “This girl learned insolence long before she broke this law. What’s more, she keeps on insulting us, and then gloats about it. There is no doubt that if she emerges victorious, and is never punished, I am no man. She will be the man here” (519).
(Macbeth I, v, 26) Lady Macbeth made Macbeth feel bad about himself, by lowering his manhood and bravery. Lady Macbeth deceives everyone so well that people were scared to tell her about Duncan’s death, not thinking she can handle it. “Look like an innocent flower /but be the serpent under it” (Macbeth I, IV, 65-66) this means to look innocent and pure but to be evil on the inside. At first Lady Macbeth is able to keep her cool and not think anything of the deed. Macbeth on the other hand cannot sleep and starts to see things.
Lady Macbeth is constantly ridiculing Macbeth because he is too afraid to kill Duncan, and she even tells him that he might as well be a woman. This is ironic because in this quote, Lady Macbeth says “Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?” (5.1.39), which lets the readers know that she feels guilty. This guilt is what would eventually drive her to madness. Mental madness all due to an attempt to gain and maintain power; power both over their own selves and a run for
Manding Bory. Once again, we are instructed to see women as inhumane, one-dimensional, base creatures of the fairer sex. She is portrayed as a tyrannical leader after the death of her husband, King Nare Maghan, as she disobeys his wishes and acts as imperious force against his other wives and their offspring, including the prolific Sundiata, the supposedly deserving heir to his throne. It is important to note that this emphasis on her cruelty ties hand in hand into another archaic and paternalistic ideal that women are neither capable nor suitable of being nonpartisan rulers, and are bound to the emotional feminine binary, rather than the dichotic male rationale. Yet, it can be noted throughout the text that although her actions were supposedly of a dishonourable and sinister nature, but they may also be construed as an attempt to protect both her own and her son’s future prospects.
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.
“My friends at home now hate me…” Medea even earned more enemies when helping Jason. For examples, she killed Pelias and his daughters. “There I put king Pelias…” Through the play, Euripides shows that Medea is an obedient wife when she had borne for Jason two sons. She always tries
Lady Macbeth is very manipulative and wants to be queen. Also she doesn’t like waiting; she wants to take this advantage of the throne as much as possible. “If it were done when’t is done, then’t were well it done quickly”. This shows that all she wants is Macbeth to kill him and she knows if they wait it will never happen. Lady Macbeth forces her husband to be brave and cold