The_Force_Of_Lady_Macbeth

The Force Of Lady Macbeth In the play “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare, Macbeth is driven into a murderous rampage so that he may become king. In doing so, he must first off kill the King Duncan himself and everyone that is heir to the throne. Lady Macbeth, his wife, is suggested to be the mastermind behind the whole ordeal. She has a great deal of power over Macbeth and could have easily been the reason why Macbeth did embark upon his murdering spree. Macbeth had the ability to murder the king, although he had his doubt. He just had his wife’s encouragement to push him the rest of the way. At the beginning of the play, Macbeth does indeed have the ambition to kill King Duncan. Even Lady Macbeth knows he could, but she also knows that he wouldn’t without a bit of encouragement. She says, “The illness should attend it: what thou woulds’t highly.” So, in a way, Lady Macbeth somewhat brainwashes her husband into killing the king by subtly taunting his masculinity, like when she says, “what beast was’t then, That made you break this enterprise to me' When you durst do it, then you were a man, And, to be more that what macbeth, lady, king, duncan, murder, macbeth’s, out, first, even, done, after, says, murdering, much, killed, banquo, way, thou, sleep, shall, play, once, murdered, mad, know, hands, father, ambition, about, yet, wouldn’t, without, whole, washing, very, time