Monday, January 20, 2014

How did Lady Macbeth contribute to Macbeth's downfall in William Shakespeare's Macbeth?

Throughout the play, Ladyis depicted as a heartless, ambitious woman, who encourages
her reluctant husband to follow through with their plan to murder King . She also contributes to
the assassination by planning the crime, duping Duncan's chamberlains, and placing the bloody
daggers back into Duncan's chamber. Following Duncan's assassination,gradually develops into a
ruthless tyrant, who is plagued by his guilty conscience and bloodlust.
 
In act 1, scene 7, Macbeth tells his wife that he is no
longer interested in murdering the king.responds by challenging her husband's manhood and calls
him a coward. She says,
From this time Such I account
thy love. Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valor As thou art in desire?
Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteemst the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own
esteem, Letting I dare not wait upon I would," Like the poor cat i' th' adage?
(Shakespeare, 1.7.38-45).

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