In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Lady Macbeth effectively persuades her husband to carry out the detestable murder of King Duncan. In Act 1, Scene 7 of the play, Lady Macbeth challenges few of his weak points: manhood, bravery, and acting similar to a coward in performing the murder. Lady Macbeth’s reference to the outside world, her effective choice of persuasive diction, and connecting them to the flaws of her husband, easily he lps her persuade her husband to perpetrate King Duncan’s murder. After returning home from battle, Macbeth was thinking about what the witches had said and about killing King Duncan. Before he returns home from the battle, and after reading her husband’s letter, Lady Macbeth is subsequently outlining Macbeth’s
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Hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale at what it did so freely?”(1.7.39-42) Mrs. Macbeth addresses Macbeth and asks if his hope is green, and calls him a coward, and that he resembles the proverbial "poor cat" who wanted the fish but would not get its paws wet. She wants him to be a man and to carry out acts like those of a man. She tells him to not overthink their plan, and to just follow the directions that she is providing him. Macbeth replies, “I dare do all that may become a man. Who dares do more is none.”(1.7.51-52) Macbeth replies back to her by saying that he dares and is always ready to do everything that is right for a normal man. But, a person who challenges himself to do more, is not a man at all. He who dares to do more, is not a man at all. Finally she tells him that her own lack of pity would extend herself to murdering her own child as it suckled at her breast. With this one terrifying example, she confirms that "the milk of human kindness" is absent in her and that she would keep everything to herself no matter how awful things …show more content…
He stated, “If we should fail--” (1.7.68) Lady Macbeth cuts him off and assures him that there is no way that they are going to fail if they have courage. She outlines the plan: she will give Duncan's bedroom attendants enough wine to ensure they black out from drunkenness. Then she and Macbeth will commit the murder and frame the attendants. Macbeth, impressed by her courage and her intelligence, instantly agrees. But now he puts on the mantle of that of a murderer. He ends by stating a strong line composed of monosyllables. “False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”(1.7.95-96) One can infer from Macbeth’s divulging to Lady Macbeth that he has gained a confidence and certainty to kill his King: this completely overturning his earlier
Hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale at what it did so freely?”(1.7.39-42) Mrs. Macbeth addresses Macbeth and asks if his hope is green, and calls him a coward, and that he resembles the proverbial "poor cat" who wanted the fish but would not get its paws wet. She wants him to be a man and to carry out acts like those of a man. She tells him to not overthink their plan, and to just follow the directions that she is providing him. Macbeth replies, “I dare do all that may become a man. Who dares do more is none.”(1.7.51-52) Macbeth replies back to her by saying that he dares and is always ready to do everything that is right for a normal man. But, a person who challenges himself to do more, is not a man at all. He who dares to do more, is not a man at all. Finally she tells him that her own lack of pity would extend herself to murdering her own child as it suckled at her breast. With this one terrifying example, she confirms that "the milk of human kindness" is absent in her and that she would keep everything to herself no matter how awful things …show more content…
He stated, “If we should fail--” (1.7.68) Lady Macbeth cuts him off and assures him that there is no way that they are going to fail if they have courage. She outlines the plan: she will give Duncan's bedroom attendants enough wine to ensure they black out from drunkenness. Then she and Macbeth will commit the murder and frame the attendants. Macbeth, impressed by her courage and her intelligence, instantly agrees. But now he puts on the mantle of that of a murderer. He ends by stating a strong line composed of monosyllables. “False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”(1.7.95-96) One can infer from Macbeth’s divulging to Lady Macbeth that he has gained a confidence and certainty to kill his King: this completely overturning his earlier