Fear, Anger, And Jealousy In Macbeth By William Shakespeare

In Shakespeare’s Elizabethan tragedy, Macbeth, Shakespeare utilizes the motifs of blood and sleep to demonstrate the effects of murder ultimately illustrating the power of guilt. The play begins with the three witches telling Macbeth a prophecy that he will one day become king. With this information, Lady Macbeth plots the murder of Duncan for her husband—who is anxious—to become king. However, they realize there are more people in the way, and they start killing more and more people. Malcolm and Macduff see what’s going on and flee to England to think of a plan to get rid of Macbeth.

Fear and lack thereof can play a strong role when making decisions and taking actions. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Lady Macbeth first appears to be a strong woman in control of her husband, then becomes the main instigator of the bloody events that follow. Oddly enough, she disappears halfway through the play until shortly before her death, never seen again fully conscious. This is a stark contrast to her husband’s change from a fearful, guilt-stricken subject to an almost fearless supposed tyrant, before he too, dies off-screen.

Upon learning of the witches’ prophecies, the woman devised a plan which included Macbeth murdering Duncan to take his title (I, iv, 38-40). This scene demonstrates Lady Macbeth’s obvious malicious intent and her malevolent personality. After noticing her husband’s reluctance at executing her plan, she influences him so that Macbeth will conclusively murder Duncan. “ …Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem” (I, vii, 42-3). She continually criticizes him for refusing to kill Duncan, letting him know that what he was doing was considered a cowardly act.

Lady Macbeth has lost her ambition from the start of the play and has become scared of the acts she has done. She became regretful in her doings while participating in the killings which scared her mentally. If Lady Macbeth is the queen of Scotland nothing good will come out of

Firstly, Macbeth feels bad for his murders. Macbeth says “I'll go no more. I am afraid to thin`k what I have done; Look on't again I dare not” (Shakespeare 2.2.49-51). This shows Macbeth feels bad for what he has done and is experiencing grief. It shows he isn't exactly happy with killing someone.

Lady Macbeth basically threatened Macbeth that he would lose her love and respect had he not gone through with the murder and questioned his bravery, therefore causing him to commit the act to prove himself worthy to Lady

She was fearful that Macbeth wouldn’t have the courage to kill the king to take the throne for himself. She antagonizes him by mocking his masculinity when it comes to killing Duncan. “Infirm of purpose!” Macbeth (Shakespeare 2.2.63). When Lady Macbeth was introduced, she was ambitious and cold-hearted, she wanted her femininity stripped away and be given the strength, courage, and respect of a man.

In the play Macbeth there was a lot of stuff that went on that could keep the reader interested. One of these things are all of the murders in the play. With all these murders happening, there has to be someone to blame. In the play Lady Macbeth is to blame for the murders because she called evil upon herself, influenced Macbeth to be a murder, and she wanted power.

To add, Macbeth is angry that Banquos sons will be kings and he will not. In the play, Macbeth says, “Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none: So all hail Macbeth, and Banquo. Your children and descendants will be kings.” Macbeth is showing his anger that he will not be able to become king. Finally, Macbeth expresses the emotion of anger throughout the

Lady Macbeth plans to invite king Duncan over for dinner, but really she is convincing Macbeth to murder him. She influences him to kill Duncan because he is the only one standing in the way of Macbeth becoming king. Lady Macbeth plans the killing but convinces Macbeth to do the dirty deed. Lastly, Lady Macbeth is one of the causes of Macbeth’s failure because she repeatedly questions Macbeth’s manhood until she persuades him to make a bad choice. “When you durst do it then you were a man” (1.7.53-58).

She plans out the entire murder for her husband and tells him he's being childish when he wants to back out. She is so power-hungry that she will not let anything get in the way of them becoming rulers. Furthermore, she continues to be controlled by greed as the story continues. Anger is shown through Lady Macbeth numerous times.

Lady Macbeth says she would have commited the murder “Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done it.” (2.2.13). Her words of wisdom convinced Macbeth to commit the murders. Lady Macbeths hallucinates that blood is on her hands and she is unable to get them clean which symbolizes guilt. Lady Macbeth desires being admired and having power.

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.

She makes it seem like it is simple to get rid of the thought that he just murdered the King by just washing the blood. While Macbeth inside is suffering from his guilt Lady Macbeth makes seem so effortless and acts like nothing happened. The thought questioning herself of what action she forced her husband to do or get involved in never crosses her mind. She gives him false hope on stating that everything will be fine if he just goes and washes all the blood and act absent-mindedly. Shakespeare is showing that “ cannot commit such crime without undergoing terrible inner torment and triggering self-defeating behavior”( Paris) shows that it is the less external consequences of his crime than the internal deterioration.

This quotation shows the relationship Lady Macbeth holds with power as she is encouraging herself to kill the