Lady Macbeth Manipulation Quotes

Almost everybody has dealt with somebody who tries to control everything and manipulate the people around them. In William Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, Macbeth deals with somebody who manipulates him into killing Duncan, the soon to be king. That person is Lady Macbeth, a manipulative but ambitious women. Throughout the whole play, Lady Macbeth holds the most power to influence the actions of Macbeth.

Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth to murder Duncan. At first, Macbeth wasn’t too sure about that idea. Macbeth speaks, “We will proceed no further in this business” (I. iiiiiii.32). Macbeth decides that he doesn’t feel comfortable murdering Duncan. Lady Macbeth states, “Wouldst thou have that which thou esteem’st the ornament of

life and live a coward in thine own esteem”(I. iiiiiii. 41-43). Lady Macbeth criticizes Macbeth for choosing not kill Duncan and she calls him a coward and not a real man. Macbeth says, “ I dare do all that may become a man. Who dares do more is none” (I. iiiiiii. 47-48). Macbeth changes his mind and suddenly wants to kill Duncan thanks to Lady Macbeth.
Lady Macbeth has affected Macbeth by manipulating him into killing Duncan, now Macbeth has become a murderer and wants to kill more people that could possibly take his power because he is king.

Murder says, “My lord, his throat is cut”(III. iiii. 14). Macbeth is

sitting at a table with other people and a murderer come in and pulls Macbeth out into the hall and tell him that Banquo is dead. Macbeth hired that murderer to kill Banquo because he heard from the witches that Banquo may take over the Kingdom. Because of Lady Macbeth, Macbeth killed Banquo because she messed up Macbeth’s mind when she persuaded him to kill Duncan.

Some people might say that the witches have the most power influenced on Macbeth because they know what is to come for Macbeth so Macbeth wants to know everything and that causes him to kill Banquo and Macduff’s family. As Macbeth says, “Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo. Down! Thy crown does sear mine eyeballs. And thy hair, thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first”(IV.i.12-14). Macbeth realizes that Banquo’s family would be king for generations. He sees kings that look like Banquo. However, the witches cannot have the most influence on Macbeth because if Lady Macbeth wasn’t around then Duncan would have never been killed because Lady Macbeth wasn’t there to get Macbeth to murder him. In other words, Macbeth feels like he can get away with murder every time now because it was easy the first

time.
In William Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” , Lady Macbeth hold the most power to influence Macbeth’s actions because she manipulated Macbeth into murdering Duncan, the soon to be king. Lady Macbeth affected Macbeth because now all he wants to do is murder people that he doesn’t like. Macbeth definitely went too far as soon as he murdered Banquo and Macduff’s family. He never learned, he murdered until he was decapitated by Macduff.