In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, Macbeth was loyal to everyone he knew, but then became a murderous monster after his wife kept shaming him for not being able to do something evil, labeling him as not a man making him a dynamic character because of his wife’s manipulation. Macbeth’s experience with Lady Macbeth is what influenced his future decisions. Lady Macbeth’s wish was to be queen. She would have done whatever it took to be queen. Macbeth was loyal to Duncan, who was king at the time, and did not have any desire to harm him in any way to help Lady Macbeth become queen. It was up until she would shame him and belittle him, “When you durst do it, then you were a man” (1.7.50). She was trying to get into his head, telling him that …show more content…
The taunting continued until Lady Macbeth came up with a plan to drug the guards, “with wine and wassail” (1.7.65) to make sure they did not remember anything from that night, so the murder would be easier to commit without getting caught. After the murder of King Duncan was successful, Macbeth was in disbelief of what he had done and automatically felt guilty, “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand” (2.2.60-61). At this point, Lady Macbeth has created a monster now that the King is gone. Macbeth now sees the opportunity to keep killing, so they can forever be king and queen. It took Macbeth quite some time to get over what he had done to King Duncan, but when he got over it, Lady Macbeth had no idea what he had planned. Macbeth then hired three murderers and sent them out to kill Banquo. His son Fleance was fortunate enough to escape. Macduff flees to England after hearing about his dear friend Duncan. Without a doubt, leaving his son and wife to die. This made Macbeth angry and so because he could not find Macduff, the closest thing was his family. He finally thinks he has gotten rid of everyone who was in the way of him becoming king. Taken by
After hearing about the Weird Sisters’ prophecies about Macbeth, Lady Macbeth brings up the idea of killing Duncan. At first, Macbeth does not want to betray Duncan, but eventually he decides to go along with Lady Macbeth’s plan. He kills Duncan and goes back to Lady Macbeth, saying, “I have done the deed” (II.2.19). This is Macbeth’s first betrayal. He decides to ignore the trust he knows Duncan has for him, and instead goes after his longing for power.
After she read the letter that her husband addressed to her she said, "Hurry home so I can twist your thinking with my sharp words toward the obstacles that stand in the way of your crowning, a rise to greatness that destiny and the witches have promised" (I.V.24-29). She had a sneaky plan to murder King Duncan. Lady Macbeth didn’t see a problem or anything wrong with killing King Duncan; she only saw it as a way to gain more power and a way to take over the throne. Lady Macbeth called upon the evil supernatural spirits to help get her in the frame of mind to peer pressure Macbeth into doing what she wants and says. She said, "Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe topful of direst cruelty. "
Once Lady Macbeth was finally cleansing her soul by repenting her sins, Macbeth took a wrong turn. Seeming to care less about mortality, he committed many more sins. He stopped feeling guilty and had not only Macduff’s family murdered, but also Banquo’s (even though Fleance managed to escape). Macbeth was blinded with ambition doing anything to keep his name on the throne (avoiding prophecy of Banquo’s son taking over in future
After killing King Duncan, Macbeth had to find someone else to lay the blame on so that he did not look guilty. Since Banquo had heard the prophecies, Macbeth had him killed to eliminate that source of suspicion and to ensure that his children never became kings as it was promised. However, that alone was not enough. He accused 3 men of the murder of King Duncan. Alongside of his wife, they devised a sly plan that involved setting up the king’s grooms.
Which all starts to change when he is approached by the three wicked women that tells him of a prophecy that he will become the new King of Scotland. He then starts to contemplate if he should let the prophecy play out by itself or give it a nudge in the right direction by killing King Duncan himself. Out of the two options he decides to try to take matters into his own hands, but he hesitates and struggles with the idea to kill the man that has been a just ruler and an overall kind man to him. Which you can see when he says “We can't go on with this plan. The king has just honored me, and I have earned the good opinion of all sorts of people.
Not only a little bit, but more power than what they would have received had he not killed the king. Power can be a very dangerous goal to chase
MacBeth is the main character in Shakespeare's MacBeth and rightfully so. He is the character that changes the most and has the greatest impact on the story. MacBeth is the one whom the tragedy is placed on, and because of this it is his story. MacBeth's dynamic character changes throughout the play driving the story forward and showing the theme of visions of power create ambition in individuals. The first point that has to be explained is MacBeth's dynamic character.
She insults him and calls him a coward while also questioning his manhood which makes Macbeth come to a realization that not killing the king is the way of a coward and he is motivated to carry out the plan and murder the king because of Lady Macbeth’s insults and speech that she gives him. By successfully persuading Macbeth into murdering the king this shows that Lady Macbeth is controlling towards people and she can be a very manipulative person. It shows that she is the type of person that gets things done by manipulating other people to do her dirty work for her. Lady Macbeth can simply achieve her own goals by getting into anyone’s head and turning their own conscience against them in, which is essentially what she did to her husband. Macbeth would have never went through with killing King Duncan if Lady Macbeth had never persuaded him because he really does have a soft heart and is good and honorable.
Lady Macbeth pursued her goal of becoming queen, destroying everything in her path to get what she wanted. It did not matter to her what she had to do and she used many different methods to achieve her goal. In William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, Lady Macbeth demonstrated that obsession, ambition, and madness caused destruction when moral restraints were cast aside. Lady Macbeth is very unlike her husband.
Macbeth’s identity and growth is hindered tremendously by Lady Macbeth’s provocation and belittlement. For instance, when Macbeth urges her to not kill Duncan, Lady Macbeth goads him to take what he “esteem’st the ornament of life” and exclaims, “And, to be more than what you were, you would/ Be so much more the man” (1.7.42-50). We can infer from the dialogue that Lady Macbeth truly wants to kill the king. She coerces Macbeth to pursue her plan by questioning his masculinity, making him vulnerable, and replacing his will with her own. We all have a dark side to us, and it is a constant, internal struggle to choose between virtues or vices.
Celia Beyers Tinti Period 1/5 12 April 2015 Literary Analysis: Macbeth In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, he presents the character of Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is shown, as a character that schemes into making rebellious plots. She reveals the desire for wanting to lose her feminine qualities in order to be able to gain more masculine ones.
Macbeth is one of Shakesphere’s most well known plays, and for a good reason. It is also one of the most relatable plays due to its many displayed universal character traits.. Macbeth’s main character, Macbeth, shows off a wide range of complex character traits. These traits range from being very relatable to not being relatable at all. However, there are three of Macbeth’s character traits that almost everyone should be able to relate to.
Macbeth writes to his wife, Lady Macbeth, telling her all about what happened. Lady Macbeth suffers from insecurity about her husband because she wants him to become king and wants him to kill Duncan for the throne. When Macbeth comes to the castle, Lady Macbeth persuades him to kill the king still that same night. He and Lady Macbeth plan to get to Duncan with two drunken guards in order to disguise themselves and the next morning the two of them found guilty, and they will be helpless, because they will not remember anything. While Duncan is asleep, Macbeth stabs him, despite the doubts and the number of supernatural prophecies, including a vision of a bloody dagger.
He could feel his head pounding, millions of voices telling him not to do it. They were screaming, but one voice was the loudest. One voice told him to do it, for it was the only way he could become king. It was so loud, although it was a whisper. It was his wife’s,
The Tragedy of Macbeth The Tragedy of Macbeth was written by William Shakespeare. This story happens with the upper class. The author wants to present the boundless ambition of characters bring a disaster to their life. He shows us to see through characteristics such as a hallucination symptom of Macbeth and his wife, Macbeth believes in prophecies by without cause and effect and to hope dominate the throne.