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
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.
When she says "Come you spirits that tend on murderous thoughts, unsex me," and "make thick my blood, stop th'access and passage to remorse," she is already calling on evil spirits to take away her feminine nature, and to stop her feeling any pity, remorse or compassion; Lady Macbeth is determined to assist Macbeth in murdering Duncan. From this early point, it is already evident that she is contemplating, and intends to take part in a murder so that her husband could have the status he had always wanted, but had been too weak to obtain. When Macbeth enters, Lady Macbeth replies: "O never shall sun that morrow see." When Macbeth informs her Duncan will be leaving the following day. Here, she blatantly reveals that she intends to murder Duncan, saying he won't live to see another day.
In both Act One and Two, Lady Macbeth was portrayed as the dominant partner in the relationship and a driving force behind Macbeth’s corrupt actions to take the throne. However, in Act Three Scene Two, Macbeth now as king and possessing the power he longs to protect, takes on the role of the dominant partner in the relationship and no longer needs Lady Macbeth to convince him to carry out his eventual evil deeds. Macbeth even goes as far as to keep Lady Macbeth out of his plans to kill Banquo and Fleance by telling her to “be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck/Till thou applaud the deed” (III.ii.45-46) showing that he is not only capable of conceiving and carrying out his own sinister deeds but no longer needs Lady Macbeth’s help or approval of
That is a step on which I must fall down, or else oerleap for in my way it lies. Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires.” When Lady Macbeth receives the letter from her husband about the witches prediction she also realises that Duncan must killed. She thinks that Macbeth deserves to be great but also believes he is too noble to do such a thing. “Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full othe milk of human-kindness to catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it.” This shows that Lady Macbeth simply brings out the murderous butcher within Macbeth which was always subconsciously there with his ambition for glory.
But, she is afraid of his personality ‘too full o’th milk of human kindness’ and decides to take matters into her own hands. This is also the scene where we hear her first famous soliloquy which is ‘unsex me here’ when she calls on the evil spirits. Really, she wants to be the same as the three witches, but because of who she is, she has to repress all her inner feelings and her conscience in order to carry on with her plan to murder Duncan. She has to be two-faced. When Macbeth returns later in the scene, she immediately pounces onto him and tries to persuade him to murder the King and she says it in a very manipulative way.
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. Lady Macbeth remarkable strength of will persists through the murder of the king, it is she who steadies her husband nerves and convinces him to kill Duncan. ‘‘It is the perfect time and place for you’’, ‘’almost too
This statement demonstrates her burning desire to become the Scotland queen and the determination to accomplish it with any cost. Also, she shows her ambitious behaviour by manipulating her husband into processing the deed, when Macbeth feels concerned and rather afraid about the negatively potential consequences of the murder. She questions his manhood and also threatens him with a shocking image: “dash’d the brains [of my baby] out, had I so sworn” (1.7, 58). Another example presenting her firmness in pursuing her ambition is her decision to not directly get involved in processing the murder. After all, she is a woman and a mother who is used to taking care people rather than taking people’s lives as she states: “Had he not resembled/ My father as he slept, I had done’t” (2.2, 12-13).
These witches are the true start of the disintegration of Macbeth’s mind and misguide him into a situation of rather to believe or not to believe for the sake of his future. All three witches name two truths of Macbeth; one that is occurring in the present and the other occurring in the future. He is now Thane of Cawdor and predicted to be the future king of Scotland. The witches have stirred up an important conversation in the showing of Macbeth’s character. He is rational about the chances of him becoming king but he decides to let chance take its own course, as he says, “If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.” (1.3.144), which proves that he is a good man with a noble mind.
Number 1: After Act 1, Scene 5 When Lady Macbeth reads the letter from Macbeth about the prophecies of him being king she is very confident that they will come true. Lady Macbeth also seems to feel as though Macbeth may not be able to go through with the process of becoming king. This is when Lady Macbeth feels she must help him through his task. Lady Macbeth yells out load that she wants the sprits to '' unsex'' her; which means that she wishes to be less like a women and more manly to go through with the task. I think Lady Macbeth is the type of person who will do anything to get what they want.