Thursday, January 12, 2017

How does Lady Macbeth persuade her husband to go through with the plan to murder Duncan?

Ladyis
portrayed as an equally ambitious partner, who goes to great lengths in order to convince her
husband to follow through with the assassination plot. She begins to persuade her husband to
commit regicide by assuring him that her plan is foolproof. She initially instructs her husband
to look "like an innocent flower" and leave the plans entirely up to her. Despite
assuring her husband that everything will be fine,expresses his concern and reluctance to follow
through with the murderous plot in act one, scene seven.

After Macbeth
refuses to commit regicide,responds by calling her husband a coward and comparing him to a cat
that wants a fish but is too afraid to get its feet wet. She questions his will and manhood by
saying,

Art thou afeardTo 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,...

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