Lady Macbeth Manipulation Quotes

Her guilt is seen through the blood on her hands and is proven through her horrible mental state at the conclusion of the play. Lady Macbeth has arguably one of the most tragic downfalls in the play. From a strong, independent woman who believed that she was on top of the world, to a shell of the woman she once was. Her actions were so dreadful, that her consequences were that much worse. Dawning from an overflowing feeling of guilt, Lady Macbeth’s demise is a painful one. Blood is seen when her collapse is at its climax. She begins to sleepwalk and hallucinate without stop. During these hallucinations, she pretends to vigorously wash her hands to clean Duncan’s blood from them but to no avail. The blood on her hands represents guilt, but the actions she was trying to wash from her own soul could not be erased. Lady Macbeth says, “Out damned spot! Out, I say!-One, two. Why, then,/’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky!” (V.I. 25-26). Lady Macbeth proclaiming, “Out damned spot!” reffers to the guilt she cannot wipe from her moral slate. The bloody guilt that is engraved in her conscience, unable to be erased. Ultimately her downfall leads to suicide, showing how difficult it is to clean the guilt from your conscience and wash away the actions that have already been

     Lady Macbeth progresses throughout the play from a seemingly savage and heartless creature to a very delicate and fragile woman. In the beginning of the play, she is very ambitious and hungry for power. She pushes Macbeth to kill Duncan in order to fulfill the witches’ prophecy. In Act I, Scene 6, she asks the gods to make her emotionally strong like a man in order to help her husband go through with the murder plot. She says, “Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty!” Also, she does everything in her power to convince Macbeth that he would be wrong not to kill Duncan. In Act I,

She is, and forever will be one of the most dominant female figures in literature. She depicts intensity, moxie, ambition, and ruthlessness throughout the start of the play. Lady Macbeth is the epitome of what King James I feared in women. King James feared women like Lady Macbeth because her power came from within herself. She understood that she could achieve anything with or without anyone by her side. He feared women who threatened the natural order, showed aggressive tendencies, and were capable of being independent (Smith). Shakespeare used Lady Macbeth as a subtle imitation for the historical women King James persecuted (Moir). The Weird Sisters used methods like image-magic on the world around them to injure. While others in Shakespeare’s England were executed for witchcraft that never engaged in any practices associated with witchcraft or magic at all (Smith). Lady Macbeth did not need magic to persuade Macbeth to kill the king, she did that all herself. Her power hungry self goes on to say, “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be/ What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature;/ It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great,/ Art not without ambition, but without/ The illness should attend it.” (Shakespeare 1.5 15-20). In the quote above she is explaining how even though her husband does not have the guts to kill Duncan, he will be able to because he has her. Shakespeare understood that the women of the Jacobean era were harassed because of their strength and tenacity, and uses Lady Macbeth’s actions at the beginning of the play to represent

In the play Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is one of the most significant characters because of her ambition and urge for power. From the start, she was described to be stronger than her husband Macbeth and as a result, pushed him to kill Duncan in order for Macbeth to become King of Scotland. She made this decision to satisfy her hunger for power. However, she took the decision to want power as an obsession because women were viewed as powerless and unimportant human beings that were only there to conceive an offspring and satisfy their husband's needs. Lady Macbeth says “ Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty.

Lady Macbeth is a very complex character; she has a way to manipulate people in order to come to hold whatever she wants. The play starts off with Macbeth hearing his future by three witches, and he proceeds to write a letter to Lady Macbeth telling her what the three witches have told him. Upon reading this letter, Lady Macbeth immediately starts thinking about killing King Duncan so that Macbeth may become king. “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be what thou art is promise. Yet I do fear thy nature. It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness o

In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the author uses manipulation to show the protagonist’s downfall rests in the hands of females. The females manipulate Macbeth into doing what they want. They constantly agitate and unnerve Macbeth, forcing him to go against his will. Even when Macbeth wants to do the right thing, these cruel females push him against human nature.

After the “deed” is carried out Macbeth is full of remorse. He is shaken by the sin he has committed and it is Lady Macbeth who soothes his nerves once he comes back to the castle. This shows Lady Macbeth’s remarkable strength of will through the murder. She even jokes about

Lady Macbeth was not just an ordinary woman; she wasn't small and frail, but she was very powerful. Especially when it came to her words. You may be thinking how could his own wife be the one going against him? In the beginning Macbeth was only having thoughts about killing Duncan. Through her words she urged him to do it.

Lady Macbeth also has a lot to do with the end results of Macbeth's life. Macbeth is a grown man, but as his wife she has a lot of power over him. The first time we encounter Lady Macbeth was a little after Macbeth wrote her a letter explaining to her what he had encountered with the witches and their prophecies. Lady Macbeth’s first response is to fulfill the prophesies no matter what the consequences may be.When Macbeth has the chance to come home, Lady Macbeth uses all her power to manipulate her husband to committing the murder, in order for him to become King. “Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t”..and you shall put his night’s great business into

• She thinks she is strong but she eventually feels guilty Earlier on in the play, Lady Macbeth is portrayed as the strong one, the leader, whilst Macbeth appears to weak and easily manipulated. Lady Macbeth is repressing her feelings; she needs to do this in order to comit such an act, eventually her conscious catches up with her. She can not cope with the reality of the part she played in such a heinous act. She drives herself mad with guilt.

In the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth taunts Macbeth about his lack of courage and masculinity. Her character is lacks all humanity and she is the quite opposite of her husband. This is shown when she says, “A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight” in response to Macbeth cowardly remarks on Duncan’s murder. In addition to that, during the whole play her loyalty to Macbeth is shown because she does whatever needs to be done to acquire the throne for him. (Although, some may say she takes this to extreme levels to become queen and not for Macbeth.) Her loyalty is shown when she says, “And fill me from the crown to toe top-full/ Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. Stop up the] access and passage to remorse” (1. 5. 49-51). Lady Macbeth acts as the devil sitting on Macbeth’s shoulder pestering him to make him perform selfish and immoral actions. She personifies the darker and selfish side of human nature and with that she will not stop until she receives what she wants. This is demonstrated when she

Lady Macbeth ,unlike the stereotypical women in other Shakespeare plays, is a strong character and a strong woman. Lady Macbeth is a strong and aggressive character who has continual influence throughout the story. An example of her power is when Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to murder King Duncan in order to become the King of Scotland. This shows that she has the will to take her own actions and make her own choices.

Lady Macbeth can be said to be one of Shakespeare's most famous and frightening female characters. She fulfills her role among the nobility and is well respected, like Macbeth. She is loving, yet very determined that her husband will be king. At the beginning of the play, when she is first seen, she is already plotting the murder of Duncan, showing more strength, ruthlessness, and ambition than Macbeth. She lusts after power and position and then pressures her husband into killing Duncan. Upon receiving the letter with the witches' prophecies from her husband, she begins to think and knowing that Macbeth lacks the courage for something like this, she calls upon the forces of evil to help her do what must be

Lady Macbeth first appears in act 1 scene 5. She enters with a soliloquy; reading a letter that she has received from Macbeth. With the use of superlatives Macbeth refers to Lady Macbeth at the start of his letter as his ‘dearest partner of greatness.’ She reads the letter aloud and is astounded by what it has to say. The first thing she says after finishing the letter is that Macbeth has already sustained the titles of Thane of Glamis and Thane of Cawdor and shalt be what ‘thou art promis’d.

All of her inner thoughts are disclosed when she sleepwalks in the fifth act exposing the radical difference between how she presented herself to Macbeth and the nobles and how she really feels about the murders she has had a hand in. In this play she is only strives to kill one man, Duncan but the blood Macbeth sheds throughout the play affects his wife as much as him. In her very first appearance, she wishes to a higher power to give her cruelty to kill her beloved king in order to become queen and Macbeth king as the witches had prophesied , she wished that, “that no compunctious visitings of nature/Shake my fell purpose.”(I.v.52-53) she thinks her nature is too kind to go through on these horrible deeds so she merely as though she is unaffected to get her husband to go through with the murders. She continues to be the steady when he falters into madness after what he has done, in murdering his king and best friend. We don’t see till the end that she too is just as affected but the tragedy they have caused as him. She cannot show this however and must be the masculine example of strength and stability to her husband and the kingdom. After Macbeth sees the ghost of Banquo she reminds him “My worth lord,/ Your noble friends do lack you”(III.iv.100-101) she wants to remind her husband no matter how real or devastating what he just saw was he needs to remember he is a king hosting nobles and his responsibility is greater than his