This is a presentation regarding the woman as shown in Shakespeare's "Macbeth" & their influences on Macbeth

The audiences’ first impressions of Macbeth are taken before he is on stage. Act 1 Scene 2 is a scene of a captain praising Macbeth, and is giving out the impression of his bravery, and courage in a current war. We see that he is a loyal soldier to his King, which isn’t something that will continue throughout the play. Macbeth then meets the witches, while he doesn’t know that he is made the Thane of Cowdor by the King, but we know. This is known as Dramatic Irony. When Act 1 Scene 3 opens, we see the witches making a spell upon Macbeth, and then instantly we hear Macbeth elsewhere say “So foul and fair a day I have not seen”. These words are mirrored from the witches’ words, which we analyzed as their signature. This gives the impression that he is now under the spell the witches were talking about. Macbeth is happy to hear what the witches had to say, because it was a good thing for him, but Banquo isn’t convinced. The witches say, in addition to him being King that he will be Thane of Cowdor. “the Thane of Cowdor lives” says Macbeth, and when he hears that it is true, he has become Thane of Cowdor, he believes what the witches had said, and starts thinking about how he will be King. The witches have influenced Macbeth on him now wanting to be King more than ever before and now he is thinking how he will become.  This is a big influence on the story, and for a woman to influence a man is somewhat evil in Shakespeare’s times.

Although Macbeth is a powerful and brutal man in the hands and trickery of a witch his qualities are shattered. They influence Macbeth very easily by telling him truths which have been bent.

 The witches are separated the other characters by using rhyming couplets, whoever speaks in rhyming couplets are one of them. Before Macbeth kills King Duncan this is what he says: ‘Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.’ This tells us that Macbeth is acting as a witch would.

Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth of her plans and how to disguise the murder; she tells us how it is impossible to go wrong. It is effective because Macbeth will feel relaxed and that nothing can go wrong, he can rest knowing he won’t be a suspect.

Lady Macbeth is more ambitious than Macbeth to kill the King, "He is too full of the milk of human kindness" tells us that she knows Macbeth very well and he would not carry out a murder without lots of convincing. When Lady Macbeth reads the letter her reaction is to get Macbeth King as soon as possible and he shows us this through the use of soliloquy, Lady Macbeth gets very anxious to get the titles ‘King and Queen’ for her and her husband. When Macbeth gets back home he tells Lady Macbeth ‘My dearest love, Duncan comes here to-night.’, Lady Macbeth reply, ‘and when goes hence?’ can be interpreted in many ways, but it is most likely that Shakespeare has her trying to discover Macbeth's feelings and whether he is plotting to kill Duncan without actually asking him. This is known as biblical imagery. Once Macbeth has given her the answer she does not want she makes it quite clear to him what she intends to do. Instead of saying, 'The sun may never see that morrow' she states it as a fact that Duncan will not survive the night, which makes it very difficult for Macbeth to disagree with her. She then says, 'look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under't.' which is an example of the recurring theme of the difference between appearance and reality. Again she makes it difficult for him to disagree by telling him to do something rather than suggesting it or asking. She is acting to move events forward as quickly as possible and now she has made up her mind she will not let anything get in the way of her ambition. She says, 'you shall put ‘This night's great business into my dispatch;' and when Macbeth tries to suggest that he does not want to go ahead with the scheme and says, 'We will speak further,' she ignores him and says 'leave all the rest to me.' In this scene Shakespeare makes it quite clear that she is in control of her husband and the situation and shows more of the strength of her character.

We get the first impression of greed in Lady Macbeth. This is because when her husband has become thane of Cowdor, she is not happy, but wants more. She is a big culprit in influencing Macbeth. He had more of a lets wait and see how I become King idea, while she wanted to kill him on the same night. He stated that he will not do it, but he was finally convinced. This shows that Lady Macbeth talks not like other woman do to their husbands. Usually in those time, woman’s only jobs was to cook, clean, look after children and please their husbands, but it seems that Lady Macbeth has a lot of power of Macbeth.

In Act 1 Scene 6, King Duncan arrives at Macbeth’s castle. Dramatic Irony is used when he says “This caste hath a pleasant seat. The air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle sense.” We know he is going to die in this castle but he doesn’t.