Macbeth should be against Lady Macbeth because Lady Macbeth wants to murder King Duncan and Lady Macbeth lures Macbeth to agree to murder the king and have high hopes for her. Lady Macbeth risks this opportunity, so she could gain wealth and power with Macbeth as being king and queen of Cawdor. Towards the end, the actions she made, lead to her downfall and started to regret the decisions she made with the help of Macbeth.
In the poem, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth in the beginning had her own power hungry ambitions to gain wealth and power, and she knew if she kills King Duncan, then they would take the spot of the throne with Macbeth. At first, he thought it didn't sound like a good idea, and Lady Macbeth was doing everything she could to make it easy for Macbeth, but he was afraid to commit something too selfish. Lady Macbeth described his fear and told him, “I dare not wait upon I would like the poor cat I the adage”, since Macbeth thought that her greed was making her very desperate to be queen. What Macbeth should’ve told her was to convince to her to come up with a different plan, because killing everybody to gain wealth and power to be rulers of
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After Duncan's murder, Macbeth starts to regret what he committed, but that didn't stopped him to murder more people since Lady Macbeth got him more into the whole killing bid. Later in the poem, Macbeth spoke with three witches and demanded them to make it easy for macbeth to kill banquo, and fleance. After speaking with the witches, he writes a letter to Lady macbeth of the possibility to become king and queen together. But after she read the letter her best guess to become rulers was to commit a crazy act to kill the king. If macbeth didn’t speak with witches to create prophecies, then he could’ve had a better survival of doing it himself, because the witches set him up by setting different traps to make situations and task difficult and
Following the meeting with the witches, Macbeth begins to think about killing Duncan and taking the throne by force. Macbeth becomes concerned with the witches prophesies and wants to learn more, as we can see from what he says after they leave, "Would they have stayed!" (1.3.82). After this, he begins thinking about his desire to be king. We can see that he is thinking about murdering Duncan from his soliloquy, "Stars, hide your fires, /Let not light see my black and deep desires;" (1.5.50-51). Macbeth has begun his path to corruption.
At the beginning of the play, Macbeth is a trusted soldier, who is honest and noble. Unfortunately, he meets three witches who tell him three prophecies; that he will become thane of Cawdor, that he will become king and that Banquo’s sons will become kings. These three prophecies slowly change his opinions on life and turn him into a greedy, dishonest, tyrant, full of ambition. Lady Macbeth’s thoughts change as well when she is told about the three prophecies that were told to Macbeth. In the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth is ambitious, controlling and domineering. She is the one who encourages him to kill the king, she not only encourages him, she makes all the plans herself, which shows her determination and persistence."Yet I do fear thy nature, it is too full o’th milk of human kindness. To catch the nearest way thou wouldst be great. Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it." (Act 1, scene 5). Lady Macbeth is the force behind Macbeth’s sudden ambition and she tries to manipulate him into feeling guilty and unmanly for not following through with the murder, by using her husbands emotions, she manages to convince Macbeth to murder Duncan.
Macbeth is captured by his wild ambition at the opening of the play when he and Banqou meet the three witches. The witches tell Macbeth that he is the Thane of Cawdor, and later will be king. They tell Banquo that his sons will be kings. Instantly Macbeth started to fantasize how he is going to be king. He understood that in order for him to become king he has to kill Duncan. “My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical”(Act 1 Sc. 3, p.23). He was pondering about the assassination until the moment that he could no longer control his emotions. “To prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which overleaps itself and falls on the other-“(Act 1 Sc. 7, p.41). Because of his “vaulting ambition” he killed Duncan.
Lady Macbeth was a small but very important part of the play Macbeth. She is always on the side of Macbeth telling him what she thinks he should do. When Macbeth was off at war, and told lady Macbeth that the witches greeted him as Thane of Cawdor, and King of Scotland before he received those titles, she was probably scheming no how to fulfill those before he returned home. Once home, they had King Duncan stay at Dunsinane. Lady Macbeth then b-tches at her husband and ridicules his masculinity in order to make him commit murder (Friedlander). Macbeth reluctantly murders Duncan, even though he wanted to wait and have it all play out without killing anyone. When he went to the well to wash off his hands he speaks of his remorse, and lady Macbeth finds out that he did not implicate the guards, so she tells him to go do it. But he wont, so she insults him more, and goes to do it herself.
Lady Macbeth negatively guides lots of Macbeth’s behaviour, for instance, when Macbeth hesitates to commit murder, she repeatedly questions his manhood until he feels that he has to do it to prove himself as the man that Lady Macbeth always mentioned; it is also one of the reasons that lead to Macbeth’s downfall, as well as the deaths of the other innocent characters in the text. “[Macbeth does] Like the poor cat i' th' adage? ”(1.7.46) says Lady Macbeth, when Macbeth is hesitating whether kill Duncan or not while he’s in Macbeth’s castle. Lady Macbeth describes Macbeth as a poor cat from old stories to satire Macbeth’s indecision. She degrades Macbeth’s manhood as he doesn’t have the dare to act the way he desires, to pursue the power and glory that he wants. Macbeth replies that he only dares to do what is proper for a man to do. However later in the text, Macbeth’s actions go crazy, he cares his family no more, as well as his friends and subordinates. Lady Macbeth seems to know that she needs to push Macbeth into committing murder, or Macbeth will just let nature take its course. At some points, she wishes that she was not a woman so that she could do the things that man could do by herself, such as the murder, so she won’t see Macbeth lacks in the power of decision and his overtaken by misgivings and fear. In addition, Julia encourages
When Macbeth first hears the prophecies, and when the prophecies begin to be fulfilled, he does think of killing the king, but also, towards the end of Act 1, Scene 3, he thinks that perhaps he doesn't need to do anything to become the king : "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without my stir." On the other hand, Lady Macbeth, on receiving the letter telling her about the witches' prophecies, she immediately thinks that she and Macbeth will have to kill king Duncan. She also decides that Macbeth is too nice to kill the king, sayin that he "is too ful o' the milk of human kindness" and when she hears the Duncan will visit their castle that night, she immediately appeals to the evil spirits, to (ironically) give her the strength to kill the king. In Act 1, Scene 7, Macbeth is doubtfull of Lady Macbeth's plot to kill the king. He doesn't think that he will be able to live with the guilt of killing his king while he is staying under his very roof, and then decides that he will not kill the king. This shows that Macbeth is thinking about what he is going to do, and shows that he does feel guilt and is weighing up the situation, unlike Lady Macbeth who never thinks twice about killing the king. When Lady Macbeth notices that Macbeth has left the room, she goes to speak to him. Macbeth firmly tells her that they will not kill the king : "we will proceed no further in this business". Lady Macbeth, however, tells him that his love is worth nothing if he refuses to go through with the plan, saying that his love is as accountable as his indecisiveness. Macbeth wants his wife to love him and wants her to trust him, so he agrees to go through with their plan.
Firstly, he defeats his enemies. Next he is praised by the other soldiers and King Duncan appoints him as the Thane. For example, if a person desires for a manager title, the person will work hard to earn it, and it is possible that other workers will see this and boost the chief individual’s desire. It is from here that the person might think they deserve the title and look for more power. Similarly, Macbeth must have thought somewhere in his mind to be king. In the book Witches’ Caldron: a study of motive in Shakespeare’s Macbeth Dr. K.C. Mathur says that although the witches did prophesy he would be king and even boosted his desire “They did not create the thought of murder of King Duncan. It was Macbeth’s own latent ambition embodying his power drive and seeking affirmation that invites the witches.” (Witches Caldron, 6) Dr. Mathur also says “Macbeth had acquired this status and it is not surprising that he thinks of achieving higher status by being aggressive and domineering. It is this psychological impulse that is projected in his ambition for the crown and not any criminal instinct or latent evil.” (6) There was a negative environment of witches and the association of Lady Macbeth around Macbeth which influenced him to murder. The environment creates a huge part in the play and if he had a good environment it is possible that he would have remained loyal to King
When Macbeth first encounters the witches, they say, “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis! All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!” (1.3.49-51). They told him would he would become ruler thus establishing a high ego and an ambition that would only grow with greed and sin. Warning him of the words of the witches, Banquo says, “The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequence.” (1.3.126-128). Although the witches may be speaking the truth, there is always a catch and things may not be what they seem. But Macbeth already is forming a plot to murder King Duncan. These new titles cause him to become more arrogant and make his ego greater. Later, Macbeth encounters the witches, this time frustrated and demanding. To reassure Macbeth of his absolute tyranny, they tell him his future and make his defeat seem impossible to him. The Witches say, “Good! Rebellious dead, rise never till the wood Of Birnam rise, and our high-placed Macbeth Shall live the lease of nature; pay his breath (1.5.101-104). This only makes his ambition greater and makes him feel over confident in his victory. He eventually goes to the extent of murdering so as to make it unlikely that he will get the throne taken from him. Due to what the witches told him, Macbeth decided to put fate into his own hands and do what he thought would be best for him. Hubris is expressed through when the seeds of malevolence are planted in his mind by the witches both the first and second time. This overconfidence leads to his destruction and
Throughout the play of Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Macbeth is supposed to be a likeable character until he kills the king. By committing this heinous act, Macbeth instantly becomes a villain and continues to commit murderous acts, all stemming from his first terrible mistake. One of his motives consists of choosing power over integrity, therefore he kills the king. Another reason why Macbeth is a villain is because he continued to kill innocent people to hide his doings. Lastly, since Macbeth is a villain and murderer, he deserves to be condemned and disdained.
In Lady Macbeth‚s eyes if Macbeth did not kill Duncan than he would not be a man to her anymore, she believes that he would be denying all urges for greater wealth and prosperity that man should have. She is wondering why he is not taking the opportunity to be king when he can easily do so, in reality, we know why Macbeth is contemplating the murder of Macbeth, because he has morals, qualities that we consider manly today.
to become what the witches predicted. While the witches never said this. Macbeth assumed that that was what they meant and the subsequent murder of Duncan was carried out by Macbeth himself, but, he also ordered special. murderers to kill Banquo, Lady Macduff and her children. The murder and bloodshed had absolutely nothing to do with the witches. Macbeth acted totally. out of his own will and beliefs. Although Macbeth murdered Duncan, it was not planned and thought out. When Macbeth heard the prediction given to him by the three witches, he wrote a letter to his wife (Lady Macbeth).
In the play Macbeth, the events that occurred in Macbeth’s life occurred as a result of his decisions, but the witches prophecies were the catalyst to his rash decision making. The witches implanted the thought of murder in his Macbeth’s head which, resultingly, allowed his ambition to lead to his defeat. Already power-hungry and longing for the crown, the witches sharing of Macbeth’s prophecy when they said “All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter” only enhanced his desire for the crown (1.3.50). Macbeth thinking he had a good chance at the throne and gaining all the power that comes with king made him bloodthirsty.
He chose to do this because he 3 wanted to be king. 1 Act 2.1.44-45 2 Act 2.1.55 3 Act 2.1:56 Macbeth is a paranoid sociopathic murderer, he is very easily deceived and
In Macbeth, Macbeth’s tragic flaw of ambition is the biggest contributor to his downfall. Macbeth’s ambition is what allowed him to believe what the witches told him, despite Banquo’s warnings – Macbeth believed what the witches because he desperately wanted what they were saying to be true. As soon as he hears the prophecies, he starts to contemplate murdering Duncan to seize the throne: “Stars hide your fires/Let not light see my black and deep desires” (1.4.57-58). Macbeth himself states that the only reason he has for murdering Duncan i...
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