Lady Macbeth Negative Influences

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Negative influences push people to do negative things. Negative influences are things that make people to do bad things. Negative influences that came from Lady Macbeth made Macbeth to do grody things. Lady Macbeth influenced Macbeth to do the most vicious.
Lady Macbeth influenced Macbeth by pushing him to kill king Duncan. In Act 1, scene 7, Lady Macbeth tells to Macbeth, she can smash a baby if she had dares to do the deed in order to attain the throne. Lady Macbeth says, “ Even as the baby was smiling up at me, I would have plucked my nipple out of its mouth and smashed its brains out against a wall.” (Page 15). This quote shows that Lady Macbeth influenced Macbeth because Lady Macbeth convinced Macbeth to kill King Duncan and he killed

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