Macbeth Analysis Essay

How is one able to control his or her emotions when the surrounding environment is influencing one personally? maam Macbeth finds the answer to this simple impossible. brothel keeper Macbeth continues to be controlled by others subconsciously whether it is through her own control, other work outions or pure guilt. The actions of characters and events that occur in William Shakespeares Macbeth bushel the life and mental wellness of Lady Macbeth forthwith and actor her to digress from dominant to voyeur, and then finally to dupe, causing the play to be much enticing. To start, Lady Macbeth is a dominant, deceiving and deter exploitd woman. For example, Lady Macbeths dictum and control are shown when she and Macbeth are discussing the plan for King Duncans murder. Lady Macbeth says, Your hand, your tongue look like thinnocent flower,/ But be the serpent undert. (1.5.64-65). Lady Macbeths control is revealed when she says this because she is openly manipulating Macbeth and telli ng him how to act and what to do. Also, Lady Macbeths dominance is shown while she and Macbeth discuss the murder of Duncan.Lady Macbeth says, We fail?/ But screw your bravery to the sticking-place (1.7.59-60). When Lady Macbeth says this she shows the audience that she is able to overpower her husbands courage with her own. A nonher example of Lady Macbeths persona is when she uses her ability to deceive while talking with Duncan upon his arrival to her castle. Lady Macbeth says to Duncan, All our service,/ In every acme twice done then done double (1.6.16-17). Her deception is proved when she says this because she is acting like a pleasant host to Duncans face exclusively her motives are much less than pleasant. The deception Lady Macbeth shows while talking to Duncan is successful when Duncan falls for it with no misgiving. This is proved when Duncan says, Give me your hand/ Conduct me to mine host we love him highly/ and shall continue our graces towards him./ By your leave hostess. Duncan allowing Lady Macbeth to hold his hand indicates that he has a trust in her and does non claim a doubt upon the person he see Lady Macbeth as and has no idea about the motives of his host and hostess. Lady Macbeth is able to use her deceptive abilities after the murder of Duncan is committed.Lady Macbeth says, Her hands are of his colour, unless she shames to wear a heart so white. (2.2.62-68). This quotation means that Lady Macbeth still bares the whiteness she had before the deed to the eye of others, hence, having a heart so white. This proven to be true because everyone looks at Lady Macbeth as innocent and pure, as if she could do no harm, but the truth is the total opposite. Also, Lady Macbeths determination shows through when she calls upon the dark strong drink to give her the courage and strength of a manlike figure and to relieve her of the womanly kindness she possesses. Lady Macbeth asks for this by saying, Come you spirits/ That tend on mortal tho ughts, unsex me here/ And fill me from the eyeshade to the toe topfull/ Of direst cruelty make thick my blood (1.5.39-42).The determination of Lady Macbeth is shown in this quote because she is doing something as drastic as calling upon the dark spirits to assist her in committing murder. As a result, Lady Macbeths dominating personality is able to pursue to her plan of murdering King Duncan successfully, without resistance from her husband. Secondly, Lady Macbeth and Macbeths roles switch, leaving Lady Macbeth standing off, with less control and becoming more of a voyeur to the plans of Macbeth. To start, Lady Macbeth is first being stripped of her control remedy after Duncans death is discovered and Macbeth has killed the guard in order to remove suspicion from him. The audience is aware of this deed when Macbeth says, O, but I do repent me of my fury/ That I did kill them. (2.3.102-103). Lady Macbeth begins to lose control over this because she had no idea or warning of Macbet hs killing of the guards.This act to a fault takes a toll on Lady Macbeths physical state when it causes her to faint. Lady Macbeth fainting is a sure sign of her losing the control she had earlier because not only are other characters leaving her out but also, her own body is causing her to be in that state as well. Next, Macbeth kills Banquo upon his intuition that Banquo has suspicion towards him in the case of Duncans murder. Lady Macbeth was ill-informed on this matter which is yet another sign that she is losing control over the characters that she had control over previously and is instantaneously watching the action happen. Also, at a dinner, which Lady Macbeth and Macbeth were hosting together, Lady Macbeth first could not get Macbeth the welcome his guests. This is proved when Lady Macbeth says to Macbeth, My royal lord,/ You do not give the cheer the feast is sold/ That is not often vouchd while tis a-making ,/ Tis given with welcome. (3.4.33-36). She (Lady Macbeth) also loses more control over Macbeth at this dinner when she is unable to calm him down when he sees the ghosts of Banquo and Duncan.In this situation Lady Macbeth attempts to gain some control by saying to him, You tolerate displacd the mirth, broke the good meeting/ With most admird disorder. (3.4.109-110). The acting-out of Macbeth leaves Lady Macbeth both astonished and over powered. These two instances especially show Lady Macbeth losing control over, not only situations but other characters themselves. Lastly, Macbeth kills Macduffs wife and children upon suspicion without Lady Macbeths push or permission and neglects to inform her of the deed directly and chooses expert to imply it during conversation with her. As the two (Macbeth and Lady Macbeth) are talking Macbeth says, Come, well to sleep. My strange and self-abuse/ Is the initiate hero-worship that wants hard use/ We are yet but young in deed.(3.4.143-144).When Macbeth says this it has the implication of the commitment o f another foul deed which Lady Macbeth is only aware of at this point. Macbeths drastic actions cause Lady Macbeth to fall uncontrollably uninformed and into the background. Finally, Lady Macbeth ends the play being reign by her feelings of guilt and the consequences of Duncans murder and ultimately becomes a victim to it. To start, Lady Macbeth begins to sleep walk and admits her affiliation in Duncans murder. Proof of Lady Macbeths sleep walkway is proved when the Gentlewoman (a spectator of the situation) says, Ay, but their senses are shut. (5.1.23). She says this after the doctor (the second spectator of the situation) mentions that Lady Macbeth has her eyes open. The Gentlewomans line lets the audience know she is indeed sleep walking for her eyes may be open but there sense is disabled. Also in this scene Lady Macbeths self control is shown to have weakened further, when she speaks of Duncans murder.Lady Macbeth says, Out, dammed spot Out, I say One, two. Why then tis/ time to dot. Hell is murky, Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier,/ and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when/ none can call our power to account? Yet who would/ have thought the man to have had so much blood/ in him? (5.1.31-36) and also when she says, The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now? What,/ will these hands nere be clean? (5.1.38-39). These quotes both prove that she knew and was involved in the murders of Duncan and Macduffs family and shows that these events are the intellectual for her stress, guilt and sleep walking, hence being dominated/ being victim to these emotions. Next, Lady Macbeth is being dominated by her feelings of guilt when she is seen washing her hand incessantly during her sleep walking. While she is doing this she says, Heres the smell of the blood still all the perfumes of/ Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O. (5.1.44-45).This quote shows that Lady Macbeth is have the best by her guilt because she mentally imagines the blood still be ing there, following her, her mind lets her believe she is still covered in the blood when in populace the blood is just representing the guilt she is feeling. A second example of Lady Macbeth being dominated by her guilt symbolically is when she is dreaming of/ replaying the scene in while sleep walking. Lady Macbeth says, To bed, to bed theres knocking at the gate. Come,/ come, come, come, give me your hand whats done/ cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed. (5.1.58-60). This quote directly shows the audience that it is indeed the murder of Duncan which Lady Macbeth is stressing over as it is a deed which cannot be undone. Lastly, Lady Macbeth shows that she is becoming victim to the outcome of events, and more directly herself when she commits suicide. The audience discovers her death when Seyton (another Thane) informs Macbeth of the incident.Seyton says, The queen, my lord, is dead. (5.5.16). Lady Macbeth becomes victim to herself in the way that she sees the only option to relieve her of her painful emotions is to kill herself. Therefore, Lady Macbeth is ultimately dominated and falls victim to the guilt she feels caused by the actions of herself and others. To conclude, the mental state and physical well-being of Lady Macbeth is influenced by the dominance and control of both herself and other characters in the play.Lady Macbeth went from being dominant, deceiving, and determined to being uninformed during the murders Macbeth commits to being over some by her emotions that had built up inside her during all of this. Therefore, Lady Macbeths life as the audience knows it is dependable on the outcome of events that Lady Macbeth herself is involved in and/ or witnesses. Temptation was the base of all Lady Macbeths problems it is said temptation is the Devil. What would you risk to get what you want?