Although the men were head of the household but In Shakespeare's play, Lady Macbeth tries to get her husband to give her sovereignty by questioning his manliness, “Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act” (1.7.39). Insinuating that he was not a man and was afraid.
Brontes’s Wuthering Heights Catherine makes a scene “Nelly is my hidden enemy! I’ll make her rue, i’ll make her howl a recantation!” (Bronte\133). Catherine yelled and ran from …show more content…
The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! Heathcliff mumbles to sabella”. Using violent and disrespect to get control in the relationship (14.39-41).
Macbeth and his wife have a type of relationship that started off to be a normal respecting and loving marriage, but later in the story it changes to confinement with only one way out. Lady Mac invites the spirits the spirits to “unsex me and fill me from the crown to the toe topful\of direst cruelty” (1.5.39-41).
Bronte’s Wuthering heights Catherine and heathcliff have a relationship that never joins but their transcending isolation, “Surely you and everybody have notion that there is, or should be, an existence of your beyond you” (Bronte\9). Destined to be together but never could.
As Shakespeare’s play progresses Lady Macbeth puts herself in an ironic situation from the beginning she tries to have many people killed so that she can better herself. Later on in the story she goes mad with guilt and falls to her death by sleep walking.
Isabella and Heathcliff show another example of irony even though they were married they were never really close, “I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death” (GALEF\248). Heathcliff never felt for Isabella as he did for