As the story of Macbeth progresses and unravels, so does the mind of Macbeth and his marriage to Lady Macbeth. In addition to the conflict between the Macbeth's there is great internal conflict in the mind of Macbeth himself. In many plays, novels and other various genres of literature characters will face various conflicts. The conflicts that arise in literature help to provide excitement and entice the reader to continue to delve deeper into the story, placing themselves in the story to feel what the character is feeling. Macbeth, the main character in Macbeth, one of the most well known Shakespearean plays faces a great deal of internal conflict within the first three acts. In just the first of five acts within the play he faces his first
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In the first few scenes of the play it is perceived to the audience that the two are deeply in love and that Macbeth is influenced but what his wife wants him to do. As the novel progresses however, the relationship between the two shift and he no longer desires to please her as much as he may previously had. Macbeth once he realizes that he must kill King Duncan to obtain the throne he is starting to plan out how he is going to accomplish this noxious act without even thinking about discussing it once with his wife. He says to himself “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be, which the eye fears, when it is done to see.” (I. iv. 57-60) This desire to kill the king is overpowering his mind and causing him to not even consider discussing this with his wife before committing the act of murder. The only slight demonstration of Lady Macbeth being aware that her husband desires the throne is when she reads the letter from him at the beginning of I. V. In this letter he says to her “thou wouldst be great: Art not without ambition, but without.” (I. V. 18-19) During this scene he is making it very aware that he is ambitious to become King and desires it greatly but as Lady Macbeth reads this letter from him she has a sense of fear that he isn't “rough enough to kill King Duncan”. Little does she know, Macbeth has far greater more devious plans that she does not know
In the first few scenes of the play it is perceived to the audience that the two are deeply in love and that Macbeth is influenced but what his wife wants him to do. As the novel progresses however, the relationship between the two shift and he no longer desires to please her as much as he may previously had. Macbeth once he realizes that he must kill King Duncan to obtain the throne he is starting to plan out how he is going to accomplish this noxious act without even thinking about discussing it once with his wife. He says to himself “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be, which the eye fears, when it is done to see.” (I. iv. 57-60) This desire to kill the king is overpowering his mind and causing him to not even consider discussing this with his wife before committing the act of murder. The only slight demonstration of Lady Macbeth being aware that her husband desires the throne is when she reads the letter from him at the beginning of I. V. In this letter he says to her “thou wouldst be great: Art not without ambition, but without.” (I. V. 18-19) During this scene he is making it very aware that he is ambitious to become King and desires it greatly but as Lady Macbeth reads this letter from him she has a sense of fear that he isn't “rough enough to kill King Duncan”. Little does she know, Macbeth has far greater more devious plans that she does not know