Self-Destructive Love In Macbeth And Wuthering Heights

“Loving you was the most exquisite form of self-destruction” (David Jones). Destructive love is caused by many aspects of a relationship. Those aspects are women get control in the relationship, jealousy leads to betrayal, love becomes an addiction, destructive power, and men try to regain control. The theme of self-destructive love within relationships in Shakespeare's Macbeth and Bronte's Wuthering Heights are presented through sexism, jealousy, and betrayal. Women who have sovereignty are remembered for what they’ve done and how they got their power. “The power of women is located in seduction and manipulation” (Thomas, 91) but that's not always true. Men should be in control over the household, but don't be arrogant with their title. Lady Macbeth didn't believe that, she believed she should have control over her husband. She got the power over him by using verbal and mental abuse on him. Her abuse was questioning his manhood into doing things he didn't want to do like killing Duncan his friend and king, “When you Durst do it, then you were a man” (1.7.49). Lady Macbeth wanted him dead because Duncan was taking all of her husband's attention that she …show more content…
Power comes in many forms, but the majority of it is never good. Macbeth's power came from and was fueled by the witches. He used his power for good when he first heard the prophecy but then it went downhill from there. Macbeth used it to become king and kill everyone that got in his way to the throne. Even his wife had some power, but it backfired on her and caused her to kill herself from all of the tournament it caused her. She killed herself in a way to cleanse herself from her guilty conscious. Absolute power always corrupts someone unless it's god given. “My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man” (1:3:52-53). Macbeth never meant to kill his friends, but some got in the way and had to go and some just knew too much and would ruin his