Nick Starr
Mr. Allen
LA IV
6/6/2016
Manipulation of Lady Macbeth Some people say that it is men who rule the world, but without women men would not be able to rule. Lady Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most known and frightening female characters. Without Lady Macbeth, Macbeth would have never carried out the bad things that he had did. She was considered to be Macbeth conscious, the other half of Macbeth. In Macbeth’s times women had no say. Women during these times had it worse than the women in the 19 century. Women were considered weak and worthless. The only role that they had was to look good and give birth. Unlike most women Lady Macbeth shows more power than Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is the biggest influence on Macbeth action. Because
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She was seen as ambitious because of her action. She stunned the people of the audience by her character. She was a strong and powerful woman who is careless towards life. Macbeth placed his fate in the witches based upon the prophesies that they place upon Macbeth. Lady Macbeth finds out about the prophesies and then she decides to do what it takes to make it come true. She then starts the journey to power. Lady Macbeth is well aware of what she has to do to get power. “Glamis thou art, and Cowador, and shalt be/ What thou art promised.” She knows that she knows that she must kill to get the power that she thirsts for. Macbeth is weak in the beginning of the play. He is doubtful towards the killing of Duncan so he can become king. Lady Macbeth starts her manipulative powers on Macbeth. She questions his manhood and the courage he does not have. She says that their love for each means nothing. The things she says towards Macbeth to make him change his mind shows how much power Lady Macbeth has towards Macbeth. It shows that Lady Macbeth can be really manipulative and wise because of how she talked down on Macbeth’s confidence. She talks about the confidence he does not have, abilities, and questioned the manhood. She knew that because of how weak Macbeth was Lady Macbeth knew that she would be able to have her way with Macbeth. Because of the pressure that she placed on Macbeth he is left feeling like he …show more content…
Later in the scenes Macbeth becomes a mad dog who can’t be controlled. Lady Macbeth starts to lose control over Macbeth because of this Macbeth stronger than her. Macbeth starts killing more characters in the play that did not needed to be killed. It first started off with the murder of Duncan. This started the downfall of Macbeth. Because of this this soon led the end of their relationships. Lady Macbeth was the trigger to Macbeth murderous intent. Macbeth was like a robot that made to do one thing, but soon lost control from the master. Lady Macbeth would be considered the Master. Lady Macbeth strong personality eats her up in side as she too started to feel guilty. She knows what she has done and is haunted by. Because of this she has blood on her hands. She starts sleep walking in attempt to remove the blood that is own her hands. But the thing was is that she never had blood on her hands, was because of her insanity that made her think she had blood on her hands. From this the audience knows that she feels guilty. The audience can also tell she is becoming weaker. She tries supernatural things to make the guilt go away, but is unable to escape the guilt she
Lady Macbeth is an extremely ambitious woman and wants more than anything for her husband, Macbeth, to be the next King of Scotland. When King Duncan announces that his son, Malcolm, is to be the next King, Duncan’s murder is planned. Lady Macbeth’s crucial role in the play is to persuade Macbeth to carry out the murder of Duncan. In the beginning she is ambitious, controlling and strong. However as the plot concludes there is an extreme change in her character and personality which surprises the audience. Lady Macbeth’s guilt eventually becomes too much for her to handle which leads to her death.
Lady Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous and frightening female characters. As she is Macbeth’s wife, her role is significant in his rise and fall from royalty. She is Macbeth’s other half. During Shakespearean times, women were regarded as weak insignificant beings that were there to give birth and look beautiful. They were not thought to be as intelligent or equal to men. Though in Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is the highest influence in Macbeth’s life. Her role was so large; in fact, that she uses her position to gain power, stay strong enough to support her unstable Lord, and fails miserably while their relationship falls apart. Everything about Lady Macbeth is enough to create the perfect villain because of her ability to manipulate everyone around her. It appears that even she can’t resist the perfect crime.
Macbeth rejects conformation to traditional gender roles in its portrayal of Lady Macbeth’s relationship with her husband, her morals and their effect on her actions, and her hunger for power. Her regard for Macbeth is one of low respect and beratement, an uncommon and most likely socially unacceptable attitude for a wife to have towards her spouse at the time. She often ignores morality and acts for the benefit of her husband, and subsequently herself. She is also very power-hungry and lets nothing stand in the way of her success. Lady Macbeth was a character which challenged expectations of women and feminism when it was written in the seventeenth century.
She cunningly controls and belittles Macbeth so he will do whatever she believes it takes to get the crown. Knowing Macbeth innocent nature, she insults him enough that he forgets his decision to be loyal to the
Lady Macbeth begins the play as a strong power hungry women. She will do anything to make her husband, Macbeth a king. In act one the idea of him becoming a king is put her into her head because Macbeth meets three witches who profises him becoming king one day. Lady Macbeth comes up with a plan. “That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements.
Lady Macbeth finally has her nervous breakdown as she has the habit of sleepwalking every night, crying out "Out, damned spot, out, I say!... What, will these hands ne'er be clean?/ Here's the smell of blood still. All/ The perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little/ Hand. O! O!O!"
Lady Macbeth’s vicious drive and ambition is made acutely clear in this quote. Lady Macbeth, unlike Macbeth, is not afraid of what she must do to acquire power. She has far greater strength than her husband, in the beginning of the play at least, and she never hesitates on her path to success. Unlike Macbeth, she needs no supernatural powers to urge her on. She remains calm in the face of danger if it is what is necessary to achieve her goals, such as when she returned the daggers to Duncan’s chamber after Macbeth killed him.
I. Thesis (which clearly states one specific assertion):One of the most bold and powerful characters in literature comes from Macbeth. This character is Lady Macbeth. She climbs to the top using many disturbing traits in which most would frown upon or belittle. She proves these traits through ambition, cunning, and mental strength.
The demise of the events that happened was because of a power-hungry woman named Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth manipulation of Macbeth disoriented Macbeth. In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, it states: “Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life / And live a coward. (I.vii.46-47). Her words have an effect on him for the worse.
Women are seen as weak or powerless compared to men. Macbeth shows these gender roles but also shows how the women hold more power then men think. Lady Macbeth holds all of the power to Macbeth’s decisions early on in the play and manipulates him constantly. The witches hold power over Macbeth because when they tell him about his future or warn him, they can get him to do things that he never thought about doing in the first place. Even Lady Macduff is portrayed as more of a man then her own husband, Macduff.
Lady Macbeth is the most interesting and complex character in Shakespeare's play, Macbeth. She is, in fact, the point on which the action pivots: without her there is no play.
Clearly, Macbeth is a weak person because his inability to think led him to kill. He did not think about what would happen when he killed. He listened to someone who wanted to convince him to do something terrible. Lady Macbeth is the one who led Macbeth to kill, by convincing him that he will be a king by murdering King Duncan. He chooses treachery and crime, knows them for what they are and is totally aware he is doing evil.
She is thoroughly a cold hearted and an utterly unscrupulous women. In the beginning, her seemingly fearless and powerful undefeatable character soon taken over by guilt as the play progress, and she is “consumed by the demons within her”. Lady Macbeth is the dominant power at the beginning of the play, she persuades Macbeth to achieve his goal and plans the murder of Duncan. Lady Macbeth does play a substantial role in the downfall of her husband. She is a highly manipulative, ambitious character, similarly Macbeth is as
Many women in Europe became more powerful after this play was written. Although women’s rights are a popular, ongoing issue, Macbeth may have been an inspiration in the progression of women’s liberation. Throughout the Tragedy of Macbeth, women had control and authority in many situations. Lady Macbeth was a sublime example of this when she says “When you durst do it, then you were a man” (1.1.49) meaning that Macbeth would not be deemed a man
In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth is the most ambitious character, especially when compared to her husband Macbeth when plotting Duncan’s murder, willingness to kill her own baby and she wishes to have been born a man. To begin with, Lady Macbeth knew Macbeth’s weaknesses and how to motivate him to kill Duncan, “That I may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valor of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round, which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem to have thee crowned withal.” (1.5.16-19). Macbeth and Lady Macbeth seem to be similar characters but are different in many aspects. Lady Macbeth influences her husband to do things that will benefit the both of them.