Macbeth English Coursework
The play Macbeth was written by William Shakespeare. Macbeth is a play about murder, to get power, and manipulation all caused by the witches that made a prediction that Macbeth was going to be Thane of Cawdor and The King. Macbeth was already Thane of Glamis, but how of Cawdor and be King after if Duncan is the King? Lady Macbeth is Macbeth’s wife, she is the one who leads Macbeth to do all the murdering to be King. This play relates to today society because it’s about killing people just to have power, to have control over things.
When we first see Lady Macbeth she’s reading the letter that was sent by Macbeth, the letter talking about the witches’ predictions. She sounds very commanding and manipulative. We can tell this by the language she uses, she already starts to plan what she’s going to do. She demonstrate that she is evil “Come thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife see not the wound it makes, nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, to cry, hold, hold” she wants thick, dark clouds to come upon her to cover all her bad deeds. She’s also power hungry, we can tell this by what she says “unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of the direst cruelty” she wants the spirits to make her a man basically, so she can be able to do everything a man does, in other words be able to kill. By her speech it creates an image of cruelty and killing. She calls on evil spirits which gives us an image of darkness and bad deeds.
