Lady Macbeth is a powerful, dominating character. As a wife to Macbeth she’s very loyal and only want the best for her husband. Lady Macbeth has the ability to control Macbeth as she continually “chastises” him. (Nags him) She believes doing this will force him to do anything she wants him to do.
Lady Macbeth will do anything for Macbeth she gives up her womanhood in order for her to be completely evil to conduct plans for Macbeth to get power.
Lady Macbeth gets her power by continuously teasing Macbeth being like an evil sprit in his ear reminding him of what he is going to do. She can get Macbeth to do anything. She says to Macbeth “ Act like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it”. Here she is saying act all innocent but underneath be ready to strike.
When Lady Macbeth changes from good to evil the director should be trying to get across that she is evil and controlled by the devil. To do this takes lighting, sound, and the emotion brought across by the actor. Lady Macbeth to show she is in control the camera should be at a low angle to give the impression of power and it should be looking up at Lady Macbeth. Lighting is important in this scene. It should be dim and spooky. Sound is also important if you watch a scary movie with sound then without sound you wouldn’t be scared on the one without sound. As you wouldn’t know what’s about to happen. Sound brings across the mood of the scene. To show the change in Lady Macbeth she should begin to wear dark gothic clothes.
Lady Macbeth is very serious about making Macbeth king. In Act 1 Scene 5 Lady Macbeth even turns to witchcraft and gets rid of her womanhood?
In the Elizabethan Society women were thought of as things, which could be owned (like a belonging.) They had no power, they were only good for washing, cleaning and reproducing. Lady Macbeth is unusual because she has power over Macbeth. (This is very rare for a woman to have, especially over a man.) We can see this by the way she always has the last thing and the most to say. During Act 1 Scene 7 Lady Macbeth shows a great deal of power over Macbeth as the equivalent of the scene is focused on her. She always overpowers Macbeth in the play we can see this by, When Macbeth decides not to go ahead with the murder Lady Macbeth convinces him into doing it.
The audience would of reacted to Lady Macbeth as evil and would of been really shocked and scared of her, because in the day that Macbeth was written witches were real and any women that had any power would of been classed as a witch. Old women were blamed for crops failing and bad weather. So to the Elizabethan audience Lady Macbeth would of come across as an evil terrifying witch.
Take a look at Adam and Eve the serpent make Eve eat from the tree which God had forbidden them to eat from and Eve makes Adam eat from it. God says, “why did you eat from the tree” and Adam replies “Eve made me do it”. Eve forced Adam into eating from the tree. That’s sort of what’s happening in this play. Lady Macbeth is forcing Macbeth to murder all his friends for power.
By the end of Act 1 Scene 7 we can see that Lady Macbeth has got the power and is in control. We can see this because when she is having a conversation with Macbeth she always ends it. We can see that Macbeth is a lot weaker than Lady Macbeth is. He can’t kill a friend while Lady Macbeth can convince him to do anything she wants. This makes Macbeth seem weak and helpless.
In Act 1 Scene 7 Macbeth refuses to kill Duncan but Lady Macbeth continues to Nag him and pours sprits into his ear until he changed his mind. It seems as though she is “pouring sprits into his ear”.
Just after Macbeth has murdered Duncan he begins to feel a huge amount of guilt. He continually looks at his hands and is discussed by what he has done. Macbeth says, “The multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” Macbeth is saying how if he put his hands in the sea he would turn them red with blood. Here he is actually refering to his guilt how it can never be washed away. Macbeth after committing the murder brings back the daggers. Lady Macbeth insists he go back with them and smear the guard’s faces with blood. Macbeth says “I’m afraid to think what I have done; look on’t again I dare not.” Macbeth in this quote stands up to Lady Macbeth and refuses to return to the room where Duncan lays.
In this scene we can see Macbeth is out of control by the way he continues to hear noises and becomes very jumpy every time he hears a sound. If you look at the difference between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth in this scene you can see Macbeth’s guilt compared to the way Lady Macbeth feels. Macbeth after saying, “The multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” This shows that Macbeth is immersed in guilt while Lady Macbeth after returning the daggers to the room also has blood on her hands. Lady Macbeth says, “ a little water will wash this off”. This line shows that she has no guilt to what she has done.
At the beginning of the play Macbeth is loyal and brave to King Duncan and Scotland. After winning the war Macbeth see 3 witches. I don’t think the witches hold any power they just minipulated Macbeth into believing there prophese. I think that if Macbeth had never of seen the witches then he would of never murdered Duncan.
The most powerful character is Lady Macbeth. She controls Macbeth by outworden him. If you compare the amount Macbeth says to Lady Macbeth the difference is massive.
