John Lennon's Deception In Lady Macbeth By William Shakespeare

John Lennon once said “There is a great woman behind every idiot.” By idiot, Lennon means man, which makes a very good point. Behind every man, or idiot, there is a powerful woman who made him that way. This quote is easily proved in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth. Lady Macbeth heavily influenced her husband to do everything she did not have the courage to do, or could do not do because she was a woman. In Elizabethan England, the only way for a woman to gain any power was through their husbands. Shakespeare very clearly proved this in his play Macbeth when Lady Macbeth manipulates her husband into murdering many people in order for her to gain power.

You can start to see Lady Macbeth’s control over her husband, Macbeth, in the very beginning