At first Macbeth agrees, but later Macbeth is having second thoughts on his decision. But Lady Macbeth is sure that being king is what Macbeth wants and that this is the best for both of them. So in response to Macbeth’s uncertainty, she manipulates him by questioning his manhood and his love for her. At one point she wishes that she were not a woman so that she could do it herself ‘‘Unsex me here’’…/’’come to my woman’s breasts, and take my milk for gall’. Lady Macbeth manipulates her husband with remarkable effectiveness, overriding all his objections, when he hesitates to murder, she repeatedly questions his manhood until he feels that he must commit murder to prove himself.
After receiving a letter from her husband, Macbeth, she realises that she must fulfil the witches’ prophesises and make her husband King, and therefore making herself Queen. She is aware that if she wants to become Queen King Duncan must be killed, and his sons, therefore heirs to the throne, must also be no threat to Macbeth’s succession of the throne. We learn that Lady Macbeth is ambitious throughout this monologue. She refers to her ambition when she says ‘thou would’st be great; art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it’. What she is stating is that Macbeth could be great and powerful ‘that would'st be great’ and he has ambition ‘art not without ambition’, but he doesn't have the aggressive and courageous nature he needs ‘but without the illness should attend it’.
However, because Lady Macbeth has ambition beyond her status, she wants him to become King as soon as possible. The only problem for Lady Macbeth is she feels Macbeth is too nice to kill Duncan. She says “it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness”, which shows Lady Macbeth thinks of her husband as a coward. The soliloquy used by Shakespeare truly shows the disturbed mind of Lady Macbeth; creating an unsettling affect on the audience through his representation of her as a scheming and dangerous character. The use of imagery reveals that witchcraft was a fascination of Elizabethan England.
The play is about Macbeth so why do we have this fascination with Lady Macbeth, I shall delve in to the deep character that is Lady Macbeth and find out if she is a fiend like queen. I can see why most people would believe that Lady Macbeth is presented as a fiend like queen, when she gets Macbeths letter as she immediately begins to plot the murder of Duncan this is out of her selfish desire to bear the name “queen” that drives her she comes over fiend like by using violent language, emotional blackmail, insults his masculinity and attacks his weaknesses to help commit the murder. Lady Macbeth takes full charge of Macbeth’s actions and seems to dominate him. Lady Macbeth calls upon the demons “Come, you spirits” this shows her calling upon evil spirits to help her to commit the deed of killing Duncan also the notion that lady Macbeth is possessed by evil spirits could explain the unnatural darkness, most fiend like. Lady Macbeths plots against killing king Duncan which is God’s appointed monarch, so by murdering him she is going against God which makes her more fiend like.
1. “Lady Macbeth is the real villain of Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth.” Do you agree? Lady Macbeth is a villain in Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, about the battle of kingship in 17th centaury Scotland. But Lady Macbeth, driven by her ambition, is not the only harbinger of death. Macbeth is the real villain and Lady Macbeth is just a partner in crime, egging him on because of her desire to be Queen.
Ambitious Lady Macbeth In the play Macbeth by Shakespeare, the character Lady Macbeth displays an immense ambition. The primary example of her ambitious behaviour is presented in the process of murdering the king. At the beginning, the weird sisters prophesized Macbeth would be the king, but the means of how this would become was never mentioned until Lady Macbeth is introduced. In the scene where she makes her first appearance to the audience, she is talking in soliloquy, showing her concern regarding the lack of “illness should attend” (1.5, 19) of her husband. This statement demonstrates her burning desire to become the Scotland queen and the determination to accomplish it with any cost.
She pushes for Macbeth to do the unthinkable all so that they may become Kind and Queen. She accuses Macbeth of not acting like a man. “When you durst do it, then you were a man”, if he went ahead with killing the King. This was a great force for Macbeth to proceed with the task. When he finally goes
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s Ambition Shakespeare’s blood thirsty play Macbeth provides the reader with a potent tale of a tyrant and his wife’s radical changes regarding ambition. Written by William Shakespeare, Macbeth presents the reader with a thrilling story of an originally kind hearted nobleman and his malicious wife who change radically in desire to fulfill prophecies and become king and queen. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth change drastically from Act 1 to Act V with regard to their own ambition and ambition towards each other, when Lady Macbeth originally feels ambition towards her husband in the beginning of the play; when Macbeth feels distress prior to the murder of Duncan and Lady Macbeth feels no remorse, and at the end of the play when Lady Macbeth’s ambition is destroyed and Macbeth’s ambition turns to a murderous and cold hearted type. Lady Macbeth, despite how malicious and sinister she is, at the beginning of the play has a great amount of ambition for her husband. Although this aspiration led for Macbeth to become a murderer and cold hearted, Lady Macbeth wants her husband to succeed no matter what consequences come along with it.
she repeats laugh at me twice this is also showing how exited she is to commit the act LADY MACBETH: lady Macbeth manipulates her husband, this is portrayed malevolently when Macbeth hesitates in the murder of King Duncan so she awaits the arrival of King Duncan at her castle. We have previously seen Machete’s uncertainty about whether he should take the crown by killing Duncan. as Lady Macbeth is clearly willing to do whatever is necessary to seize the throne. This speech shows the audience that Lady Macbeth is the real steel behind Macbeth and that her ambition will be strong enough to drive her husband forward. At the same time, the language of this speech touches on the theme of
This forebodes the death of Macbeth and also Lady Macbeth by suggesting that they will not be able to kill the King and live a normal, guilt free life afterwards. Lady Macbeth then creates irony as she mocks Macbeth for thinking this way, she refers to him as a ‘coward’ and insists that this murder is necessary. This part of the play is extremely significant as we realise just how harsh Lady Macbeth is and how far she would really go. She removes any maternal characteristics that she may have had by explaining that her lack of pity would extend so far, that she would murder a baby. “Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out”.