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L. MacBeth influence

            Lady Macbeth plays a key role in influencing her husband to take the path that he does. She is the catalyst that effectively unleashes Macbeth's true side of evil. Throughout the play we can see that she has a strong influence on him and is a primary cause for increasing Macbeth's ambition. Lady Macbeth's words to her husband as well as her many powerful soliloquies show us her great desire to become Queen and hence urge Macbeth to murder Duncan as well as begin his reign of tyranny. However, in no way can Lady Macbeth be seen as the sole influence on Macbeth. Although Macbeth appears to be greatly subordinate to his wife in terms of levels of evil, he is still an extremely ambitious and powerful character. She greatly helps him throughout the play to get him through various problems. The supernatural also plays an important role in Macbeth's life. Macbeth and his wife have a very loving relationship in which they have great influence in one and other. In the earlier acts of the play we can see that Lady Macbeth's words mean a lot to her husband, giving the impression that she is definitely the dominant figure in the relationship. Lady Macbeth has a strong influence on her husband however he is a strong and ambitious character without her. .
             Lady Macbeth is an influence on her husband in many different ways, for many different reasons. We discover that as soon as she opens her husband's letter she immediately begins to scheme and plot, showing her true evil and ambition. We can immediately become aware that she wants Macbeth to become King so she can become Queen of Scotland. She is unsure whether Macbeth is too kind and without the evil that needs to merge with his already prominent ambition. As said in her famous soliloquy, "I fear is too full"o the milk of human kindness, to catch the nearest way". For this reason, she influences him greatly into the prospect of murdering the king. The thought of becoming Queen pushes her and causes her to act outrageously.


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1. Is Macbeth Guilty

... and wishes to reach his goal b! y any means, even if this means letting himself be influenced by others. Macbeth is responsible for putting power into the hands of Lady Macbeth and letting her influence him. Lady Macbeth tries to persuade Macbeth to kill Duncan but it is Macbeth who listens to her demands. "This night's great business into my dispatch; / Which shall to all our nights ... the cause of his new character. This new character of Macbeth contained greed, violence, and power hunger. Macbeth shows this when he kills King Duncan. In conclusion, Macbeth character is caught in a m...

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2. Macbeth's Bloody Murders

... is most responsible for the many acts of violence in the play. While the Three Witches' predictions influence Macbeth's thoughts, and plant in his mind the idea that he will be king, and while Lady Macbeth drives and manipulates her husband to murder Duncan, ultimately it is Macbeth, being of sound mind, and of his own free will, who does 'the deed', and is ... sleepy two, of his own chamber, and used their very daggers, that they have done't?" (I, vii, 82-85) Similar to the Three Witches, Macbeth allows Lady Macbeth to influence his thoughts and actions. She, however, does not do the k...

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3. Macbeth As A Tragic Hero

... the first murder, killing seemed to be the only solution to maintain his reign over the people of Scotland. It was Lady Macbeth who introduced the positive consequences of King Duncan's murder to Macbeth, thus catalyzing his character change. Lady Macbeth's influence also comes in to play because, if not for her, his ambition would not have escalated to the point of murder in ... his quest to obtain the crown of Scotland. Lady Macbeth's influence was not just over Macbeth's external actions. It also affected the internal events in their ... marriage. In the beginning of the play, the M...

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4. Macbeth - Chance v Fate

... Without my stir." Discuss how this quotation relates to the themes expressed in the text of Macbeth? It wasn't fate that guided Macbeth's course, rather it was his own free will and external influences that did so. The witches manipulation of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth's influence, Macbeth's active participation in fulfilling the prophecies and conflicting thoughts, are all factors that show that it ... was his own free will which determined his future. William Shakespeare's Macbeth details the rise and gradual fall of a Scottish General, Macbeth. In the opening scenes, Macbeth is approached...

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5. Macbeth ultimately caused his own downfall.

... ambition acts as deciding power in bringing him to his downfall. The witches and their prophecies are the first major influence on Macbeth's actions, but their influence is only that of suggestion. Their power has limits, as shown in the first scene of the play. One witch was refused chestnuts from a sailor's wife, they directed their revenge ... to the images that spoke, as they were also hidden clues. Lady Macbeth is a second major influence on Macbeth. The witches only awaken Macbeth's desires of becoming king, it is she that begins to push Macbeth towards the real act of murdering ...

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6. Macbeth - Chance v Fate

... Without my stir." Discuss how this quotation relates to the themes expressed in the text of Macbeth? It wasn't fate that guided Macbeth's course, rather it was his own free will and external influences that did so. The witches manipulation of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth's influence, Macbeth's active participation in fulfilling the prophecies and conflicting thoughts, are all factors that show that it ... was his own free will which determined his future. William Shakespeare's Macbeth details the rise and gradual fall of a Scottish General, Macbeth. In the opening scenes, Macbeth is approached...

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7. Macbeth

... them evil and greed. This along with his wife makes Macbeth really turn to the darker side of his mind. The other strong influence on Macbeth's character is his wife, Lady Macbeth. Telling lady Macbeth about the prophecies is maybe one of the worst actions that Macbeth takes in the play. Once knowing the prophecies Lady Macbeth really turns toward evil even to the point of talking ... has and how he wants to be respected and prided for being a "Man". There is also another motive that Lady Macbeth tries on Macbeth, which is to deprive him of sex. She is a true influence on him. What make...

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8. Power Struggle in Macbeth

... play is her thirst to achieve more power than the power she already has. Lady Macbeth will not stop for anything while on her quest, no matter whose lives she corrupts along the way. The one person she has the strongest influence on is her husband, Macbeth. Reluctantly, Macbeth wants to leave the whole situation with the witches" prophecies to chance, and he does ... to a notion crazed say, "This did Banquo" (III.i.81-90) This shows how one's state of mind can change after being under the influence of someone like Lady Macbeth who has a deadly starvation for power. In this situation, Ma...

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9. Who is Most Responsible for the Downfall of Macbeth

... evil personality and contrasts it to the personality of what a stereotypical Shakespearian women should be. She says things like "unsex me know" because women had no power or influence in Shakespearian times. Lady Macbeth says she would have murdered king Duncan if "he"d not resembled my father as he slept," but she does smear blood on the guards to make them appear ... or women has the potential to commit evil and Macbeth was free to resist the influence of others but didn't. I believe though that Macbeth would not have killed the king if it had not been foretold to him that he would b...

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  • Grade Level: High School

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