Lady Macbeth's Relationship
In Act I of The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth is revealed to be a confident, forceful person determined to get what she wants. She refuses to allow anything to get in the way of what she desires. Lady Macbeth is determined to go through with her plan with Macbeth to kill Duncan and does not allow Macbeth to back out. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s relationship and their different feelings on killing Duncan reveal Lady Macbeth as being the more forceful person. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth have a very unique relationship. They treat each other as equals, something unheard of for people of their time. Macbeth refers to Lady Macbeth as his “dearest partner of greatness”(1.5.10.) and trusts her enough to tell her about the prophecies
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When Macbeth tries to back out of their plan to kill Duncan, she scorns him and says “Wouldst thou have that / Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life, / And live a coward in thine own esteem”(1.7.41-43.). She tells him that if he doesn’t kill Duncan and take the role as king, then he will live his life as a coward. She continues to insult him by saying “When you durst do it, then you were a man”(1.7.49.). She tells him that he was a man when he planned to kill Duncan, but now he is too much of a coward to be a man. Lady Macbeth feels determined that they will succeed and tells Macbeth “But screw your courage to the sticking place, / And we’ll not fail”(1.7.60-61.). She refuses to allow Macbeth to stop them from killing Duncan and insults his pride to force him to go through with their plan. Lady Macbeth is forceful in her determination to go through with the plan. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s relationship and their different feelings on killing Duncan reveal Lady Macbeth as being the more forceful person. The relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth allows Lady Macbeth to voice her opinions and contribute to their plan to kill Duncan. Lady Macbeth shows that she is the more devious one by wanting to do what she feels her husband is too nice to do. Macbeth proofs that he really is too nice to kill Duncan by trying to back out of the plan, but Lady Macbeth forces him to go through with the plan.
When Macbeth tries to back out of their plan to kill Duncan, she scorns him and says “Wouldst thou have that / Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life, / And live a coward in thine own esteem”(1.7.41-43.). She tells him that if he doesn’t kill Duncan and take the role as king, then he will live his life as a coward. She continues to insult him by saying “When you durst do it, then you were a man”(1.7.49.). She tells him that he was a man when he planned to kill Duncan, but now he is too much of a coward to be a man. Lady Macbeth feels determined that they will succeed and tells Macbeth “But screw your courage to the sticking place, / And we’ll not fail”(1.7.60-61.). She refuses to allow Macbeth to stop them from killing Duncan and insults his pride to force him to go through with their plan. Lady Macbeth is forceful in her determination to go through with the plan. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s relationship and their different feelings on killing Duncan reveal Lady Macbeth as being the more forceful person. The relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth allows Lady Macbeth to voice her opinions and contribute to their plan to kill Duncan. Lady Macbeth shows that she is the more devious one by wanting to do what she feels her husband is too nice to do. Macbeth proofs that he really is too nice to kill Duncan by trying to back out of the plan, but Lady Macbeth forces him to go through with the plan.