![]() Peace: I dare do all that may become a man: Who dares do more is none. Lady Macbeth then questions his love for her if he is unable to perform his task, “From this time Such I account thy love.” “Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valor As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would,” Lady Macbeth is calling Macbeth a coward, asking if he values the object of life rather than live the rest of his life a coward and living in an existence being afraid of “I would”. “Was the hope drunk Wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely?” Demeaning Macbeth by implying that he was drunk when he was initially so hopeful of the idea, and asking if he awoke green and pale in fear. Lady Macbeth reacts by calling Macbeth a coward. He that’s coming Must be provide for: and you shall put This Night’s great business into my dispatch this is just one example of how Lady Macbeth emasculates Macbeth.Īfter the evening’s feast in Scene 7, Macbeth decides that he does not want to go through with their plan of killing Duncan. ![]() Look like the’ innocent flower, But be the serpent under ‘t. Though Lady Macbeth plans to kill Duncan herself “Bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue. ![]() Lady Macbeth is begging the spirits to remove her femininity and womanhood in order for her to have the courage to kill Duncan. And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers, Whatever in your sightless substances You wait on nature’s mischief.” A common theme in Shakespeare’s plays is the link between masculinity and brutal ambition, and femininity and manipulation. Gender and power are two key elements in Lady Macbeth’s character analysis an example of this is “That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Th’effect and it. “Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it.” Lady Macbeth believes that Macbeth has the ambition, but lacks the ability to do what he must in order to become King murder anyone who gets in their way. Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way.”Lady Macbeth explains, calling Macbeth too moral and too good of a person to commit the most obvious act, murder the king. “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be What thou art promised.
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