Lady Macbeth's Input Essay

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When doing something that is not right with someone else, should one consider the others input only when one chooses, or always require it? In Macbeth, Macbeth has always relied on his wife, Lady Macbeth, and has had a very close relationship with her. Macbeth, even though he did not have to, told Lady Macbeth everything. After they killed King Duncan their relationship starts to change and Macbeth starts to not rely on her as much. However, towards the very end of the play Macbeth begins to only rely on himself and only cares about what will affect him. In other words, Macbeth started off requiring Lady Macbeth’s input, in the middle of the play he started to choose when to get her input, but by the end of the play he stopped reaching out …show more content…
He starts to rely more on himself and his own judgement. After King Duncan is killed Banquo immediately knows who killed him because he was there when the altercation with the Weird Sisters happened. However, since Macbeth realizes this too, he immediately is scared of Banquo and feels he may turn him in. However, little does Macbeth know Banquo is not going to say anything because he wants his sons to become kings like the Weird Sisters said. Since Macbeth is so scared of being found guilty of killing King Duncan by Banquo he hires a group of two murderers to kill Banquo and his son Fleance while they are horseback riding. Lady Macbeth has no idea this is happening and starts to feel uncomfortable and unsafe because she is no longer able to control Macbeth as much. As the night drags on, Macbeth starts to dangle that something is going to happen that night to Lady Macbeth, but he will not tell her what - little does she know Banquo will be dead by dinnertime (Act III, Scene 1 and 2). After Banquo is out of the way and Macbeth can start thinking about other things he comes to realize that there was one more person who did not attend his crowning or the banquet - Macduff. Upon realizing this Macbeth catches wind of information that Macduff has fled to England to talk to Malcolm and get an army from the English king to overthrow Macbeth and take back the throne (Act III, Scene

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