Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Is it Lady Macbeth's fault?

It is true that a wife should be the biggest support to her husband, but in a good way. It is a wife’s duty to guide her husband if he is doing something wrong. In some religions, wife is considered half body of her husband.
In the great Shakespearean play of “Macbeth”, Lady Macbeth plays a really critical roll. Lady Macbeth is a deeply ambitious woman who lusts for power and position. Even though the majority of women had very limited rights during the time of William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth stood up to Macbeth and dared him to do what was to be done for him to be the King. When we first see her, she is already plotting Duncan’s murder, and she is stronger, more ruthless, and more ambitious than her husband.
Even though three witches predicted that Macbeth was going to be the king, Macbeth himself was not sure if he should think about it or not. After that, Lady Macbeth was the one who encouraged him to kill King Duncan and seize the crown. He is led to evil initially by the witches' predictions and then by his wife's goading, which he succumbs to because he loves her.
Macbeth feels guilty after killing the king, but Lady Macbeth convinces him by telling him that water can wash the blood and their deeds.
Macbeth was comfortable where he was, he was curious about the fact the witches stated, but he didn't want to force it to work. After Lady Macbeth's help in the killing of Duncan, the only influence she has upon him is to keep everything to themselves. In this way, whenever Macbeth was unsure of killing anyone, Lady Macbeth pushed him by insulting him being a man. A good wife should never support her husband in crimes; she should remind him of being honest and loyal to his king instead.
Lady Macbeth called the evil spirits to unsex her from woman to man (mentally), so that she can think like a man and do all the evil things. For a while, let’s just say that it was the “Evil spirits’’ who made her do all the crimes, but she was the one who called them. She had the idea of calling the bad spirits to make her strong enough to support his husband in his crimes. It looked like; she would commit all the murders, if she was a man.
In the beginning, we get to know that Lady Macbeth’s father was murdered. Even though Lady Macbeth had this tragedy in her life, she made Macbeth kill King Duncan. That shows how cruel she could be in order to achieve something. A woman is a daughter, a wife and a mother, which is the symbols of Love, but Lady Macbeth, was ambitious enough to forget this.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I like the last comment you made! Interesting!