Lady Macbeth receives a letter from her husband describing the weird and wonderful event that occurred on his journey. Lady Macbeth is excited at the news what she has just received and mentally she starts to plan out her murder on Duncan to ensure that her husband is to be King of Scotland, which would then make her Queen.
She then (in Soliloquy) describes her husband as not being man enough to carry out a murder. “ It is too full o’th milk of human kindness”. Soliloquy is where the audience can hears what’s going on in the persons head maybe its just to make the scene a little bit easier to understand or to set the scene. She then finds out that Duncan is coming to dinner that night and plans to stay the night in Macbeths castle.
Lady Macbeth calls upon demons to make her strong “ Come to my women’s breasts and take my milk for gall” This displays Lady Macbeths ambition and her desire for the murder and her strength of mind.
Macbeth is reluctant to carry out Lady Macbeths plan as his conscience comes into play he makes it clear to Lady Macbeth he can kill at war but killing his friend who he has some feeling towards and is a fellow soldier would not be a good idea but then Lady Macbeth starts to taunt him “ Was the hope sunk wherein you dressed yourself”. Macbeth and Lady Macbeths relationship is strong but its clear by the body language and the way they speak to each other and its clear in the relationship she is in charge.
Macbeth is already showing signs of regret (Act 2 Scene 2) “This is a sorry sight”. Lady Macbeth has pushed if not forced Macbeth to kill Duncan due to her driving ambition to become Queen of Scotland and to me she finds it compulsory to become Queen and her need to become Queen can’t happen with out her husband. This part of the play also shows the social context of a woman and that is they are far inferior to the men.
The King is murdered and Macbeth is crowned King just as he wanted but he is worried about Banquo and his sons as the witches told them Banquos sons will be kings “Thou shalt get kings though thou be none”. Macbeth hires his little gangsters to bump off his best mate. Macbeth by now is showing signs of becoming a power freak and is going a bit insane this is shown in (Act 3 Scene 4) when he is throwing a party where he knows Banquo is dead but nobody else does. So a place is set for Banquo anyway at the table ready for the feast and that is here Banquos ghost appears at the table only Lady Macbeth and Macbeth see the ghost and it clearly effects both of them but they carry on as normal.
Macbeth goes back to the witches wanting to know more and they mix up this potion for him which makes him go all funny and he starts hallucinating and seeing images in the pool of water which is in front of him and he is told by the witches that “No human born of woman can kill him” so then he turns to the hard man believing this and at some point in the next scene he mentions he wont be scared until Burnham wood comes to Dunsinain and eventually it does with all the English soldiers with it they get in the castle and Macbeth kills some of the soldiers and then he has a final showdown with old friend Macduff and Macduff is near defeat and Macbeth lets him go and then Macbeth gets beaten by the baby that was ripped from his mothers womb and that baby is Macduff. This play has many different themes near the end I saw themes of evil, ambition and one of the biggest ones in my view was fate.
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