With the witches’ prophecies mulling over in his mind, and knowing that he was not the successor of the throne, he knew he had to take matters into his own hands. With the support and persuasion of Lady Macbeth, he kills King Duncan and gains his kingship. When Banquo makes his vow to find out who killed Duncan, Macbeth knew he had to silence him. After Macbeth is named king, he seeks out hired murderers to kill Banquo and his son, Fleance. Macbeth does this because he is afraid that Banquo will get in the way of his new title and Fleance, because he is prophesied to be king.
Tragic Hero “The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see” (Act 1, Sc. 4, 55-60).
That is a step on which I must fall down, or else oerleap for in my way it lies. Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires.” When Lady Macbeth receives the letter from her husband about the witches prediction she also realises that Duncan must killed. She thinks that Macbeth deserves to be great but also believes he is too noble to do such a thing. “Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full othe milk of human-kindness to catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it.” This shows that Lady Macbeth simply brings out the murderous butcher within Macbeth which was always subconsciously there with his ambition for glory.
In the quote she states, “You are too full of the milk of human kindness to strike aggressively at your first opportunity. You want to be powerful, and you don't lack ambition, but you don’t have the mean streak that these things call for.” Lady Macbeth embeds a fear into Macbeth’s soul, that she can persuade him into doing almost anything. Lady Macbeths constant persuasion leads Macbeth into the idea of killing the king so he can become king himself. He must get his hands dirty and kill the one he loves in order to be loved by many. “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And
That is a step On <br> which I must fall down, or else o’erleap, For <br> in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; <br> Let not light see my black and deep desires: <br> The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be <br> <br> 2 <br> which the eye fears, when it is done, to <br> see. (Act I, Scene vii, lines 1-28) <br>If he had not been so determined to be king, then Duncan would <br>never have had to die. Consequently, if Macbeth had not killed <br>Duncan, this story would not have any murders in it at all. <br>Macbeth is driven by greed and violence proven by William <br>Hazlitt: <br> Macbeth himself appears driven along by <br> the violence of his fate like a vessel <br> drifting before a storm: he reels to and fro <br> like a drunken man; he staggers under the <br> weight of his own
Lady Macbeth Looks: Observations -serious -ambitious -leader in the relationship Text Support - "not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of what greatness is promised thee" Actions: Observations -convinces Macbeth to kill King Duncan -says she'll sabotage the servants so it'll look like they killed him Text Support - "But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail…" - "If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, for it must seem their guilt" Speech: Observations -Lady Macbeth doesn't care about the death and easily had the ability to get over it Text Support - "a little water clears us of this deed: How easy is it then" Thoughts: Observations - Personally I believe that Lady Macbeth didn't regret anything that she has caused. I think she views her husband as not capable of fulfilling the deed or cowardly and that she basically initiated the conflict and ran the relationship. She did not want to be the same way as Macbeth, she wanted to be better. Text Support - "My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white." Interactions: Observations -She wants and expects Macbeth to go through with killing King Duncan, but is upset when he responds with he can't.
When Macbeth returns later in the scene, she immediately pounces onto him and tries to persuade him to murder the King and she says it in a very manipulative way. When Lady Macbeth says: ‘Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it’ She uses a recurring theme of appearance versus reality. This shows that she is a two-faced character and tries to persuade Macbeth to be the same. The use of language suggests that she is very demanding and will not stop at anything to get what she wants. In this scene we’ve found that she is a domineering and two-faced character through the phrase: ‘Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it’.
This forebodes the death of Macbeth and also Lady Macbeth by suggesting that they will not be able to kill the King and live a normal, guilt free life afterwards. Lady Macbeth then creates irony as she mocks Macbeth for thinking this way, she refers to him as a ‘coward’ and insists that this murder is necessary. This part of the play is extremely significant as we realise just how harsh Lady Macbeth is and how far she would really go. She removes any maternal characteristics that she may have had by explaining that her lack of pity would extend so far, that she would murder a baby. “Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out”.
Macbeth hatches the plan, as he is in conversation with Lady Macbeth, he states, “When we have marked with blood those sleepy two”. Sleepy contains connotations of vulnerability and no use of self-defence, therefore meaning that the guards are helpless moreover Macbeth planning to frame them whilst at this vulnerable stage, infers the tyranny within. Aristotle’s theory on a Tragic Hero states that persuasion soon follows the self-indulgent of greatness. In this instance, his own wife, Lady Macbeth, convinces Macbeth to kill his best friend, Duncan. She insults his masculinity greatly, by calling him a coward.
Unseamed him makes it sound like he ripped him like you rip a seam on clothes. He is also referred to as ‘Bellona’s Bridegroom’; so the husband of the goddess of war, so he is obviously a very good soldier. In Scene 3, Macbeth is told that he will be King. He then has a Soliloquy and he says that he is thinking about murdering King Duncan, but it shakes him up so much that he hardly knows who he is anymore, and he can’t act on his idea because of his thoughts and speculations. So he is thinking about killing the king to become king but his mind is telling him that it’s a bad idea so he is confused about what to do.