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Macbeth is a play that Shakespeare wrote about the males thought process. This play shows so many different characteristics of people. This play also shows how a woman can control her man. In this play there are three important themes, trust, manhood, and looking like a flower but stinging like a bee. When Macbeth has to kill Duncan to become king he tries to back out, but Lady Macbeth pressures him into doing it anyways. He, Macbeth, is talking to himself and is trying to talk himself out of it. “First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, strong both against the deed; the, as his host, who should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been so clear in his …show more content…
Lady Macbeth is very good at controlling her man in these first two acts. Towards the end of act one Macbeth tells his girl that he isn’t going to be able to fulfill with killing Duncan. When Lady Macbeth hears that her man is pretty much backing out she full on manipulates the crap out of him. She begins with questions that talk about him wanting to be king earlier in the play and that all of a sudden not meaning anything to him anymore. “What beast was’t then that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; and to be more then what you were, you would be so much more than a man. Nor time nor place did then adhere, and yet you would make both.” (Act1:Scene7 lines 47-52) In these few lines that Lady Macbeth is talking to Macbeth, she says that it is one thing to say that you are going to kill someone then actually killing someone. Then she turns everything back on herself and said that she would never back out on a plan that Macbeth and her had. She makes him think that he has to prove himself to her, which he really doesn’t, but she then tells him how the plan will go. Once he hears the plan he tells her that he wants his sons to grow up to be just like her. Some say that is a compliment, but seriously who wants their son to be like their

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