How Does Lady Macbeth Affect Lady Macbeth To Kill Duncan

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Sometimes people can help you act on certain ambitions that could improve your life. However, those actions do not usually go to such extremes as committing murder. In Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Macbeth is given a prophecy from three witches, also known as the Weird Sisters, that says he will become king. However, in order to gain the throne, Macbeth needs to kill his cousin, King Duncan. Since Macbeth has high morals, he is reluctant to carry out the act. Nevertheless, his wife, Lady Macbeth, is committed to doing whatever she can to make sure Macbeth murders Duncan and becomes king. Lady Macbeth’s decision to motivate Macbeth to kill Duncan and how she manipulated him ultimately influenced his decision to kill Duncan.
Lady Macbeth reveals to the audience that she thinks her husband is too mentally weak to kill …show more content…

When Macbeth tells his wife that Duncan would be coming to their house, she tells him to “ ...put/ This night’s great business/ into [her] dispatch,/ Which shall to all our nights and days to come/ Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom” (1.5.59-62). At this point, Lady Macbeth is telling her husband not to worry about how he will kill Duncan when he visits, for she will make a plan that will surely change their lives forever. Later, when Macbeth had recommitted himself to killing Duncan after having second thoughts, Lady Macbeth delivers the plan to him. Her plan includes getting Duncan’s guards drunk to the point of passing out, allowing Macbeth to stab Duncan with one of his guard’s daggers. Then, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth would be able to place the blame on the servants’ intoxication (1.7.61-72). This is the most important piece of Lady Macbeth’s influence on her husband; in all likelihood, Macbeth would not have devised any kind of plan by himself to kill Duncan because he would not have allowed his ambitions to overpower his

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