Does Manipulation Lead To Guilt In Macbeth

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How does manipulation lead to guilt? For instance, In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth's husband, Macbeth, has a huge ambition and thirst for power. Which later leads to the Lady Macbeth provoking the death of King Duncan. After Macbeth is given his prophecies, he kills Banquo in fear of his sons, and eventually Macbeth is slain by Macduff. While Macbeth is an important character, Lady Macbeth is the most powerful because she is manipulative and ruthless. One reason Lady Macbeth is considered cunning, is when she uses belittlement as a means of persuasion. In Act One Scene Seven, Lady Macbeth instigates Macbeth’s proposition to kill King Duncan. She states, “Wouldst thou have that which thou esteem’st the ornament of …show more content…

Which leads him to think he’s invincible. In Act Four Scene One, three apparitions appear and inform Macbeth of his prophecies. The Second Apparition says, “for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth” (Shakespeare.IV.i.91-92). The apparition tells him that only one who isn’t born of woman will kill him, which causes him to think he is indestructible since a large quantity of the human population is “woman born”. Macbeth could be deemed the most powerful character because he believes that he’s an unassailable combatant and monarch. However, Lady Macbeth is far more nefarious than Macbeth, and doesn’t let her extreme pride and ambition, or hubris, get to her. In Act One Scene Seven, Lady Macbeth twists the human nature of breast feeding and makes it monstrous. She says, “I have given suck, and know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me. O 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 to this” (Shakespeare.I.vii.62-67). Lady Macbeth tells her husband that she’s so good at keeping promises that she would have killed an infant if she had vowed to do so. Villainous is one of Lady Macbeth’s iniquitous features due to her feral actions towards the competitors in the way of her husbands

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