Lady Macbeth The Butterfly Meaning

The Butterfly who carried a Secret Sting Lady Macbeth desires nothing more but to obtain her title as Queen. She employs to manipulate Macbeth to change him from once the good moralist person he was into a murderous thief.

Lady Macbeth stings her husband’s feelings to get what she wants from him, even if it means she will have to lose her tail in the process. Looks can be deceiving Lady Macbeth may appear to be this beautiful butterfly, but she is infact a insect with an hidden agenda to claim her crown. Macbeth is hesitant about following through with her plan of killing the king, but Lady Macbeth sees this as a lack of courage and strength. Lady Macbeth felt that if you have the ambition to do something you shouldn’t hold back

She tells him if he were truly a man he would live by his actions and carry out the crime immediately. “ When you durst do it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man” ( 1.7. 49-51). She compares the act of being daring and strong to really being a man. The word “durst” is an old english term of using the word dare, she is basically saying that if Macbeth dare to do what he says he will then he will be a man.

The way the sentence is flown the usage of a comma gives the reader a chance to pause, this affects the reading more because it adds a dramatic pause before the last phrase is added into the sentence where she saids that “then you were a man”. No man wants to feel more less than a woman, Macbeth responds to this quote by saying “ I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.” (1.7.47-48). Macbeth doesn’t necessarily believe that being a man consist of keeping your word, but his tone is that he is appalled that his wife would even question the works of a man to being a murder. He uses the word “dare” to show his shock in what she said to him. The word “dare” is repeated because it capturing the emotions of what Macbeth feels after his wife challenged and ridiculed him and his manhood. Macbeth strategically attacks the plot of killing the king, he says to her “ If we should fail?”( 1.7.58). Macbeth doesn’t make a statement

She tries convincing her husband that following through with his actions will prove his love to her. “ From this time. Such I account thy love.” (1.7.38-39). Macbeth is exhausted by his wife’s constant nagging that he is moderately leaning towards doing what she wants just to make her leave him alone. In the text he uses a tone that suggest that he has had enough and says “ Prithee, peace.”. (1. 7. 46). In other words he is saying “ Please Stop”; eventually, Macbeth gives up and starts giving in to the idea of killing the king. After all he does want to be king, and he would do anything that would make his wife