Lady Macbeth manipulates and emasculates her husband

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One way that she does this is through manipulation and the questioning of his manhood; “look so green and pale...Art thou afraid” she begins to insult him because she knows that Macbeth cannot bare it when someone questions his masculinity. For every insult that she gives him, he slowly begins to give in to the plan as he believes that committing the murder is the only way to prove that he is not weak;” a coward in thine own esteem”.  Lady Macbeth manipulates and emasculates her husband very effortlessly, this affects Macbeth a great deal, and as he begins to feel that he is doing the wrong thing and should go forward with the murder. His outcome shows who is in control and how much power and control she has over him.  She also uses emotional blackmail to her advantage she begins to question whether he loves her or not ; “ such I account thy love”. lady Macbeth is very devious and exceedingly manipulative in this scene but Macbeth is still unconvinced and not sure that the plan would work “ if we should fail”. Lady Macbeth is sure that they will not fail, she even gives Macbeth instruction of how to carry out the murder “when Duncan is asleep…” . finally after all of lady Macbeths work Macbeth is convinced;”I am settled, and bend up, Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.”

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“moon is down”  act 2 scene 1 is set in darkness, late at night this is because it is the time that Macbeth will carry out his unforgivable deed, he sees that the : “ candles are out” this tells us that there are no stars in the sky meaning that the sky is pitch black , a good time to carry out awful deeds as there is no one to see you doing it.  We slowly start to see Macbeth embracing his evil side.  Macbeth walks into banqou , there is tense atmosphere around them as banquo is quite ...

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