Lady Macbeth, The Driving force behind Macbeth?

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Sajeevkumar Shanmuganathan

              Lady Macbeth,

The Driving force behind Macbeth?

In this essay, I am going to analyse the character of Lady Macbeth and how she influences Macbeth and the story. I believe Lady Macbeth was the driving force behind Macbeth to kill King Duncan. Due to her persuasion Macbeth was forced to kill Duncan and later we discover how she regrets it. The guilt of killing Duncan makes her mentally unwell and finally leads to her death. Once she died I believe the witches took over Macbeth.  

At the beginning of the story we find out about Macbeth first. Macbeth comes back from a battle and we find people calling him courage’s fighter. Then later we find king Duncan, he took prises Macbeth for his loyalty and fighting skills. Once the battle is over, we see Macbeth and Banquo returning back to their camp. Banquo is Macbeth’s best friend. At this moment of time is where the whole story starts to change. For the first time in the story we see the witches who supposedly have supernatural powers.

“I'll give thee a wind.”

Here the witches are saying that they have the control over the weather. The three witches make three prophecies. Two towards Macbeth and one to Banquo.

The first witch says:  

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“All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!”

Macbeth will be wondering about how they new this because he has never met them before. He may also think that they have the power to read minds otherwise how would they know.

The second witch says:

“All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!”

Macbeth will really be confused here because the thane of Cawdor already exists.

The third witch says:

“All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!”

Here is the first time where this thought will be introduced into Macbeth’s ...

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