Macbeth is a popular play written by William Shakespeare, which is a tragedy. In order for Macbeth to be crowned king, King Duncan would have to die. There are two main characters in the play that want the power from Duncan and are too anxious to wait. Those two characters are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, Lady Macbeth was the one who came up with the ideas and schemes to kill King Duncan. Whenever Macbeth would be unsuccessful through the process of killing Duncan, she would back him up.
Although Macbeth wanted to get out of murdering Duncan he couldn’t. To make Macbeth kill Duncan Lady Macbeth had to constantly manipulated Macbeth. Duncan is Macbeth’s cousin so it would be harder for Macbeth to stab him to death while he’s sleeping. When Macbeth sent Lady Macbeth a letter saying that Duncan was going to stay with them for the night and then leave the next morning, she was already starting to plan out his murder. Through the process of killing Duncan, there would always be something that Macbeth would not do right, and so Lady Macbeth would have to do it over.
In (2. 2 62-64) Lady Macbeth says, “why did you bring these daggers from this place? They must lie there, go carry then and smear the sleepy grooms with blood.” Then again in (2. 2 65-67) Macbeth reacted “I’ll go no more, I am afraid to think what I have done look on’t again I dare not.” When Macbeth killed Duncan, he forgot to leave the daggers by the drunken chamberlains, he was already regretting killing Duncan. When he returned to the castle, Lady Macbeth was surprised to see him holding the bloody daggers. Afterward when Macbeth refused to bring the two bloody daggers back; Lady Macbeth took them out of his hands and went to the chamber where Duncan laid dead.
When Lady Macbeth came back into the castle she says, (2. 2 80-86) “My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white. I hear a knocking at the south entry retire we to our chambers. A little water clears us of this deed: how simple is it then.” When she returned from the chamber saying that her hands or the same color as. I’m covered in the same blood as yours are. Someone is coming let us get to our chamber and pretend like we were sleeping, we ” ll wash our hands with water and with that done the deed is done, we don’t have to worry about it any longer.
While reading the play, Lady Macbeth seems to be a more evil character than Macbeth is. In (1. 7 49-51) Macbeth is saying, “Prithee, peace, I dear do all that may become a man, who dears do more is none.” He doesn’t want to kill Duncan anymore, he doesn’t care if it will make him more of a man than he already is. Then in (1. 7 53-56), Lady Macbeth manipulate him by saying, “what beast was it 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.” She wants to know why Macbeth wants to back out after they made a plan and it’s ready to go. You should be able to this without any problems, but if you do this you would become a stronger man than you are now.
“But what if we fail?” (1. 7 65).
“We fail! but screw your courage to the sticking place and we will not fail. Macbeth is saying that what if we fail? what if I fail? what if I get caught? what if the chamberlains aren’t drunk enough? But that won’t happen just do what we have been planning and we will not fail. When you have finished killing Duncan then you must smear the chamberlains with his blood and keep the daggers by there side to make it seems that they have done it. if you can do that, we won’t fail, I will make sure there drunk enough and you just do the rest, no one will suspect us.
Lady Macbeth manipulated Macbeth to go on with the plan, so that he would be more of a man than he is now. The difference among Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, is that Macbeth is willing to wait patiently for the crown and Lady Macbeth is anxious to get it. As I stated in my introduction Lady Macbeth had to continuously manipulate Macbeth to kill Duncan because he didn’t want to do it anymore. Lady Macbeth said that all he had to do was to stab Duncan when he is asleep and she ” ll make sure that the chamberlains are too drunk think and see anything. Lady Macbeth was the one who came up with the schemes and plans to kill Duncan. The way that Lady Macbeth is more ambitious than Macbeth is because she would do anything to get power, even murdering a family member.
The play Macbeth is written by William Shakespeare, which is a tragedy. Throughout the play, Lady Macbeth seems to be more motivated and an evil character than Macbeth himself. Lady Macbeth would back up Macbeth for whenever he made a mistake. Even when Macbeth refused to kill Duncan, Lady Macbeth had to constantly manipulate Macbeth. Saying how he would become a stronger man if he was to kill Duncan.