In this quote Macbeth is saying why should he stop with just being the thane of Cawdor, why not achieve even more greatness; the greatness that the witches promised him. This quote gives us the first glimpse into Macbeth’s goals and thoughts. Macbeth doesn’t just stop with hearing the witch’s prophecies once; instead he seeks out their advice again and tries to learn more about his future. This helps to assure him that the goals he’s achieved will be safe and won’t be taken from him. When Macbeth is talking to Lady Macbeth he says, “I will, to the weird sisters: / More shall they speak,” (3.5.134-135).
It becomes apparent to the reader that the witches are a part of the present and the future. Hearing of his prophesized nobility, Macbeth is all too excited to get a jump start on his future. To do so, he must get rid of the present king though. It becomes known to the reader that this foreshadowing advances the plot of Duncan’s death. Upon reading her husbands letter, Lady Macbeth is too very ecstatic about their future.
Once Macbeth tells his wife of the recent events she is convinced that macbeth should attain the position as king and although she fears macbeth is too full of "th' milk of human kindness" (1.5.15) she feels it must be done and is certain she will be able to convince Macbeth to take the steps neccesary. Lady Macbeth then summons evil spirits too "unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full, Of direst cruelty” (I.5.38–41) so that she may become crule enough to convince him. Now Macbeth is starting to think. The profecy, his wifes willingness to do anything for him to be crowned, and the arrival of king Duncan at his castle has got him procrastinating of the consequences and the good outcomes that the futur may hold for him if he were to kill Duncan. This is the first stage leading up to Macbeths madness.
Thou wouldst be great, art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it." said Lady Macbeth (I, V, Lines 15-20). Lady Macbeth is showing her ambition, she wants Macbeth to seize the throne and become a king. She is trying to convince her husband to start rising to power, even when such atrocious acts are involved. Lady Macbeth becomes fearful after the murder of Banquo (although she is not involved) from her guilt.
Having being set alone on stage, from a dramatic point of view, it would be most effective if Lady Macbeth were to read the letter aloud for the first time as paces from left to right of stage. This would not only convey Lady Macbeth’s true immediate response to the letter, but with changes in volume and a high pitched tone, showing how ecstatic Lady Macbeth is, to hear her husband being greeted as King, revealing her true motives. Lost in her own excitable state, Lady Macbeth is impetuously lured into the prophecy of the “metaphysical” forces, as she determines herself into acquiring the status of King for her husband. Human instinct would make it difficult to believe the words of creatures “that made themselves air”, but clearly this is not the case with Lady Macbeth. Consequently the influence of the witches’ prophecy on Lady Macbeth gets her to overlooks Macbeth’s newly acquired title of “Thane of Cawdor”, as Lady Macbeth’s ambitions demand more for her husband.
After reading the letter, Lady Macbeth immediately began to devise a plan, to ensure that her husband would become king, and she queen. She became impatient, realising how long this might take, and determined that the only way to ensure that this would occur quickly, would be to kill Duncan. Lady Macbeth devised a plan to create the means in a very calculated way. The first step in Lady Macbeth’s murderous plan was to persuade Macbeth to carry out the deadly deed. Lady Macbeth was unsure how Macbeth would react to the possibility of murdering Duncan to become king.
We also recommend watching Macbeth: Themes and Quotes from the Scottish Play and A Midsummer Night's Dream: Summary, Quotes and Characters Lady Macbeth Character Analysis Ambitious. Manipulative. Evil. These three adjectives can easily be applied to Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's play Macbeth. Her lust for power and position drive her to manipulate her husband to murder Duncan,
Lady Macbeth is the wife to the plays protagonist Macbeth. I would consider lady Macbeth as not being such a conventional Elizabethan woman being that women in this time where seen as weak and unable to control manly situations however lady Macbeth is shown to be strong and In control of Macbeth which was unheard of in Elizabethan times. An Elizabethan audience would react highly to the sight of a woman being in control of a man because it was seen to be not right to for a woman to be in control being that a man would normally be in control of a woman. The audience will be shocked an astonished by the way in which lady Macbeth acts. However a modern audience will not react as highly as an Elizabethan audience would, as now day’s people are more familiar to women being powerful of different places within society.
Lady Macbeth quickly becomes consumed in her strive for superiority, and uses her power over her husband to gain the position of a King’s wife. In pursuit of this she says, Your hand, your tongue : look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it. He that’s coming Must be provided for : and you shall
The plot follows the premise until the prophecy is fulfilled. The character of Lady Macbeth is essential for Macbeth’s actions. She realizes immediately that Macbeth is “too full o' th' milk of human kindness” (I.v. 15) when she learns of the prophecy of the Weird Sisters. Even though the ambition was placed in Macbeth’s mind Lady Macbeth fears that Macbeth would not take the steps necessary to make himself the king.