Macbeth Final Essay
Haley Jones
December 20, 2016
Period 2
Macbeth Final Essay
All through “Macbeth”, there are quite a change in the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. It shows how their relationship dramatically changes after how they handle each other’s emotions. Lady Macbeth was manipulative and overpowering in their relationship. She was more violent and ambitious than her husband, Macbeth. In the other hand, Macbeth would be considered daring and brave yet self-doubt. The start of their marriage, Lady Macbeth reads a letter from her husband, “This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness that thou mightiest not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it to thy heart and farewell”. Macbeth thought it would be a good idea to share the good news to his wife or “partner of greatness” about the witches told him about being king. They have a good relationship going on at this point because he knows that when he becomes King she would like the idea of being Queen. Through the witches promised that Macbeth would be kind, Lady Macbeth is terrified and worried for her husband. “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be what thou art promised. Yet, do I fear thy nature; it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great; art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly, that wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, and yet wouldst wrongly win”. She worries that weather or not Macbeth would do whatever it takes for the crown and she knows that there is something that Macbeth wants but in order to get what he wants, Macbeth just is too afraid to do what need to be done.
No one knows exactly when and how death will happen, but we all know that eventually everyone’s time would come up. At the beginning of the play Lady Macbeth appears to be supportive of her husband’s aims/goals. Their relationship is like any other at first, loving and supportive. Macbeth refers to Lady Macbeth as “my dearest partner of greatness”. The letter which Macbeth sends to Lady Macbeth as soon as he heard he had been made Thane of Cawdor reveals his closeness to his wife, the witch’s prediction. Lady Macbeth continues the act until everyone leaves. Against all odds the two of them try to fight through the guilt, the rumors, and the madness and try to continue their love, ruling and try to keep their secrets amongst each other. Although when Lady Macbeth over fills Macbeth’s head with greed he gains a murderous momentum and Lady Macbeth loses her iron grip over Macbeth. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth start out with quite a healthy relationship at the beginning of the play. Their relationship radically changes after the murder of Duncan that they drift so far apart that their relationship cannot be repaired. Lady Macbeth’s ambitions drive Macbeth to evil causing him to murder and cause madness and as a result their relationship feeds the story and drives the engine of the plays tragedy.