Succes from Lady Macbeth essays

Succes from Lady Macbeth essays Macbeth is an honest man who is serving his king as loyal as he can. He takes pride in what he does. He does not want anything else in life except to be honored as a noble man. All of this changes when Lady Macbeth enters the play she changes Macbeths whole life. She convinces Macbeth to kill Duncan. She gets Duncans guards drunk so they cannot protect him, and she also hides Macbeths insanity. Without the influence of Lady Macbeth, Macbeth would have never become king. In the beginning of the play, Macbeth receives a prophecy from the witches that he will become king. He does not act on it right away, but he is curious about it. It remains curiosity until Lady Macbeth pursues the prophecy for Macbeth. While Lady Macbeth tries to convince Macbeth to kill Duncan he refuses to, but she attacks his manhood. She says, What beast wast then that made you break this enterprise to me? 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. (1.7.54-58). After hearing this, Macbeth is hurt by the words spoken by his wife. He proves to her that he is a man. He kills Duncan to prove that he is a man. He does whatever it takes to make his wife happy. Besides just telling Macbeth what to do, Lady Macbeth also takes things into her own hands. While Duncan is at Macbeths castle, he has guards that watch over him while he sleeps. Lady Macbeth realizes that he has guards and puts it on herself to get rid of them for Macbeth. When Duncan is asleep his two chamberlains will I with wine and wassail so convince that memory, the warder of the brain, shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason a limbeck only. (1.7.71-78). Lady Macbeth does what she intends to do and gets the chamberlains drunk and they pass out. While they are asleep, Macbeth passes by them and murders the king. In order for the king to be murdered, the guards would have to be t...