In Macbeth, Shakespeare portrays Lady Macbeth as a character plagued with madness. He continues this trend all throughout the play starting with Lady Macbeth’s satanic prayer in Act 1, her numerous attempts to persuade her husband to kill, and the very way she took her life.
In Act 1 Scene V, Lady Macbeth partakes in a satanic prayer. “…That which cries 'Thus thou must do, if thou have it; / And that which rather thou dost fear to do /
Than wishest should be undone.' Hie thee hither, / That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; / And chastise with the valour of my tongue/ All that impedes thee from the golden round, / Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem / To have thee crown'd withal” (The Tech at MIT). Lady Macbeth is filling herself with mercilessness by doing what has to be done, so that her husband may be king. …show more content…
She questions Macbeth over and over about his masculinity when he hesitates to follow through with the murder. “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” (The Tech at MIT). Lady Macbeth can see the weaknesses that her husband has, so she attacks him by saying that he can be more of a man if he murders Duncan. The article “The Character of Lady Macbeth,” expresses that Lady Macbeth taunts her husband over his masculinity because “Macbeth's rank and fame depend on his courage and bravery” (The Character of Lady Macbeth). She knows that Macbeth lacks the capability to follow through with the murder, yet she can talk him into killing Duncan because of his weakness when it comes to persuading. She consistently scolds Macbeth that he isn’t being manly because he isn’t willing to murder Duncan. She manipulates her husband with her questions about masculinity, which then leads to the killing of the
In Act 1 Scene V, Lady Macbeth partakes in a satanic prayer. “…That which cries 'Thus thou must do, if thou have it; / And that which rather thou dost fear to do /
Than wishest should be undone.' Hie thee hither, / That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; / And chastise with the valour of my tongue/ All that impedes thee from the golden round, / Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem / To have thee crown'd withal” (The Tech at MIT). Lady Macbeth is filling herself with mercilessness by doing what has to be done, so that her husband may be king. …show more content…
She questions Macbeth over and over about his masculinity when he hesitates to follow through with the murder. “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” (The Tech at MIT). Lady Macbeth can see the weaknesses that her husband has, so she attacks him by saying that he can be more of a man if he murders Duncan. The article “The Character of Lady Macbeth,” expresses that Lady Macbeth taunts her husband over his masculinity because “Macbeth's rank and fame depend on his courage and bravery” (The Character of Lady Macbeth). She knows that Macbeth lacks the capability to follow through with the murder, yet she can talk him into killing Duncan because of his weakness when it comes to persuading. She consistently scolds Macbeth that he isn’t being manly because he isn’t willing to murder Duncan. She manipulates her husband with her questions about masculinity, which then leads to the killing of the