She basically questions his man hood at one point and and claims she would slay a baby for him. In return this motivates Macbeth to man up and slay Duncan. To make sure Macbeth goes through with the homicide Lady Macbeth gives him incentive , " We fail/ But screw your courage to the sticking place/ And we'll not fail..."( Shakespeare 1.6.59-61). She states that if
Lady Macbeth simply implies that if Macbeth goes through with killing Duncan than he will become a man again.| What beast was't, then,That made you break this enterprise to me? [->0]When you durst do it, then you were a man;And, to be more than what you were, you wouldBe so much more the man[->1]| Interactions| Lady Macbeth is going through with the plan and she is trying to frame Duncan and make him look guilty in the process.| Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the deadAre but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhoodThat fears a painted devil. If he do bleed,I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal,For it must seem their guilt[->2]| Macbeth |Observations|Text Support| Looks| Macbeth has a conscious and he knows that karma is real.| Bloody instructions, which being taught, returnTo plague the inventor[->3]| Actions| Lady Macbeth has persuaded Macbeth to kill Duncan and Macbeth is ashamed of what he has done.| I'll go no more:I am afraid to think what I have
This quote is important because it explains how Kreon begins to commit hubris. He has pride to kill her nieces and high self- confidence about people in Thebes looking up to him
Macbeth first takes this in a joking manner, but soon begins to take it very seriously. When he came home to his wife, he shared the witches’ prediction with her and she encourages Macbeth to quicken the process by murdering the current king, King Duncan. After murdering the king, Macbeth soon finds himself needing to kill many more in order to keep his secret. His kingship comes into jeopardy when he hears of someone named Macduff who is foretold to have the power to defeat him. Macbeth hears some juxtapose news that gives him a reckless attitude.
Macbeth carries out the act after Lady Macbeth challenges his ‘manhood’ in saying “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” (1.7.49-51). When the dazed and blood-covered Macbeth emerges, Lady Macbeth is slightly angered with her husband’s incompetence but quickly rushes off with the bloody daggers to frame the two servants. Upon her
Gertrude and Ophelia both love Hamlet, although, they love Hamlet in different ways. Gertrude, his mother, loves Hamlet in a motherly way. Gertrude married Claudius, which is Hamlet’s uncle, and also the brother of Gertrude’s deceased husband and Hamlet’s father. Gertrude shows her love at the beginning of the play by begging Hamlet to “cast thy nighted colour off” (1.2.68) in an attempt to bring him out of two months of mourning. This shows her love for him in that she is concerned about his emotional state and desires for him to continue his growth as a person.
/ 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). Now we see here that Mrs. Macbeth has a little bit of power over her husband, and when she wants to make a point, she does it, and she does it well. Now does this demonstrate courage? By this point in the play, she has come up with a plan to obtain what she thinks is right for her and her husband, and has convinced him to go through with the ultimate sin: killing the king. I believe that Lady Macbeth is full of courage.
‘Was the hope drunk, Wherein you dress’d yourself?’ ‘When you durst do it, then you were a man.’ She questions if he is a man or a mouse, if he loves her and says that she is stronger than him. She doesn’t stop there though. When Macbeth tried to get out of killing the King. She 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 done to this.’ Macbeth could not take all this so decides to agree, but he won’t fully commit. If Lady Macbeth had not been so vulgar and questioned him about being a man and if he loved her, Macbeth would not have gone through with killing the
She is confident that the ‘valour of my tongue’ will persuade him to execute the unthinkable task of murdering Duncan and although Macbeth puts up a feeble fight, Lady Macbeth is adamant on her desire and even goes as far as to attack Macbeth’s manhood in order to get what she wants. This shows the extent of Lady Macbeth’s immorality because she goes as far as emasculating her own husband to accomplish what is initially only a faint
|Macbeth's Relationship with Lady Macbeth | |[pic] | |In his letter to his wife about the witches' prophecies, Macbeth writes, "This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of | |greatness, that thou mightst not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of what greatness is promised thee"(1.5.10-13). He knows | |that his "partner" will like the idea of being Queen and seems to offer the news as a kind of present. | |Lady Macbeth does indeed like the