Lady Macbeth believes that Macbeth will be unable to become king as he is too kind hearted. She knows that he will need some persuasion. Later on she calls upon the evil spirits asking for help, to make Macbeth the King as she feels she is not wicked enough to persuade him. She knows that if she shows him how much she wants him to be Ruler it will make him see that she loves him and has his best intentions at heart.
While making her preach to the evil spirits she announces that she doesn’t want to be a woman and to fill her with cruelty, to make it so she doesn’t feel guilty for any wrong doings, and to make the night dark so the wickedness will not seen. All of this helps into convince Macbeth that he has to perform this act of high treason, and even the consequences of being caught to end up with him being hung. She knows if she has evil thoughts she will pass them onto her husband.
Lady Macbeth’s analysis of Macbeth may be kind hearted and brave but when you begin to dig, deep down inside he has a side of deviousness. This is when she begins to see herself at her wickedest. As she knows if Macbeth becomes King she will be the queen and this is the main motive for her plot to kill the king. The idea of becoming Queen fills her with joy as she will have authority. When Lady Macbeth says “The valour of my tongue” this means the courage that I speak meaning she is full of hope and believes that Macbeth can perform the murder.
Lady Macbeth Knows that He will not proceed with the Murder without persuasion. While reading the letter from Macbeth she begins to have great thoughts as her initial beliefs are that she needs to literally tell her husband what needs to be done and when , and as the King is coming to visit she knows it will be the perfect opportunity. In her soliloquy she calls on the evil spirits with evil thought that eventually rub off on Macbeth. Lady Macbeth asks them to ‘Unsex’ her and to fill her full of ‘the direst cruelty!” asking to become a man, and have the cruelty to commit the crime herself. While persuading Macbeth to kill King Duncan she deceives him by making him believe that she has his best interests at heart, but she is only interested in becoming Queen.
Lady Macbeth helps Macbeth to kill King Duncan by influencing him to commit the crime. She puts evil thoughts into his head and makes him think how she is. She helps him plan how it’s all going to happen down to the very last detail. In this scene we se a lot of imagery with Lady Macbeth talking to the spirits it helps us visualise imagery. So she knows he is too kind she changes that what she thinks is for the best but it ends up to be her down fall.
Lady Macbeth uses strong imagery in her soliloquy when calling upon the evil spirits. She asks “Unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty” which makes us believe that she does not want to be a woman any more and wants to be filled with cruelty. She also asks of the spirits to “Stop up th’access and passage to remorse” so she does not feel guilty for any actions that she may be responsible for. Another use of imagery is when Lady Macbeth personifies the Death as the Raven: “The Raven is hoarse.” Darkness is used in her soliloquy when she asks for the night to be dark and to cover the murder. When she calls upon the Evil dark spirits it reminds us to the supernatural and the supernatural confrontation that Macbeth made with the three witches.
Lady Macbeth goes on to greet her fate “King Duncan” in to there home and then has a convosation with her husband. She believes that people may suspect that something is wrong jus by looking at Macbeth so she tells him “Look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t.” She then goes on to discuss Duncan’s fate and tells him to leave it to her to plan. From this convosation we can se how important Lady Macbeth is towards her husband’s success. By the orders she is giving to Macbeth it shows her intense passion for leadership and success. Lady Macbeth uses persuasive language in Act 1 Scene 5, she leads him to believe that she loves him and wants him to thrive and accomplish all of his dreams.
Macbeth tries to divert His Wife’s attention from the murder as he asks to speak with her later. Still shows us his true opinion on the murder of his friend and king. We can tell Macbeth is uncertain and Nervous about committing the deed. When Lady Macbeth comments that Macbeth is “Too full o’th’ milk of kindnesses” now we can see what she previously said is true.
When Duncan arrives at the castle he is happy to be in the company of Macbeth and his Wife. When Duncan arrives he complement them on there castle telling them it has a “Pleasant seat” and Lady Macbeth acts very courteous towards King Duncan thanking him Gracing there presence and what he has done for them. This shows just how devious Lady Macbeth is; even with all of her evil thoughts she has made the kind believe he is welcome. This intensifies the scene as we know her true intentions and we are waiting for her to make a mistake. But Lady Macbeth is extremely convincing and no body suspects anything is up let alone that they are planning a vicious murder.
In Macbeths soliloquy he talks to the audience about the consequences associated with the murder of King Duncan. We begin to get a good view of his true feelings without Lady Macbeth’s deceptive word misleading our interpretation of the ways that Macbeth feels about the situation.
First of all Macbeth pleads his reasons for not committing the murders. He believes if he could be sure he wouldn’t be caught then he would do it. He also comments that people who kill set examples for others “Murders get Murdered.” He also believes that he shouldn’t kill him as he is his guest, relative but let alone King, and also admits to himself that he has been an excellent king. When Shakespeare represents God as Angels in Macbeths Soliloquy we begin to see his good side until he begins to defend his argument on why he should kill him. It takes him a while to find a fact to persuade him he realises his desire and ambition to become king he realises this is no defence to kill a person.
When Lady Macbeth hears that Macbeth is not going ahead with the murder she is angry and she knows she has to persuade him. First of all she uses emotional blackmail by calling him a coward. “Was the hope drunk wherin you dressed yourself?” She says it was the alcohol speaking and now he has reawaken he has changed his mind, when she mentions clothes it is very symbolic through the play as when Macbeth eventually kills King Duncan and is crowned King the ropes he is wearing are to big saying he is not big enough to fill the role as King. She also mentions here enthusiasm and love for him, and what she would do for him, and she even goes as far as to say that she would take her Childs life if it was what he wanted. By Lady Macbeths promises to him she has persuaded him to commit the act of sin by line 58:” If we should fail” this proves that Macbeth is in with the plan. He admits that she has changed his mind and says she may only have boys as she is strong. And at this part of the scene they are plotting the murder down to the last movement. Again in the play they use one of the main themes Blood as they smear blood on the guards so they suppose it’s them. At the end of the scene he is adamant that he will go ahead with the murder and take part in Lady Macbeths plan, but at the beginning he had no moral excuse for committing the murder. Lady Macbeth realised that he Macbeth had the potential to kill, but it was the persuasion that was the hardest part. It seems as if Macbeth is scared of his wife and is doing it just to please her but at the end of the scene we can se a big difference as we can tell how adamant and persistent he is on killing his friend and ruler.
The three witches set the start of the play if they hadn’t of made the 3 prophecies for Macbeth, the witches only stated fact and lady Macbeth helped to persuade him if she hadn’t of persuaded him there would have been no chance of King Duncan being murdered. Macbeth require only a little bit persuasion as he is a born warrior, so killing is one of his talents, as this is how he become the Thane of Cawdor by being a strong warrior. So we know he was ready and could kill, but all it was is that he didn’t have a sufficient purpose to kill him, maybe if the king had been more malicious towards him but the kind so compassionate towards him, he kin of felt that King Duncan was a fatherly figure.
