Macbeth: What is the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth?

E3A Joanne

If the main theme of Macbeth is ambition, whose ambition is the driving force of the play—Macbeth’s, Lady Macbeth’s, or both?

Introduction

1. Macbeth is a brave soldier and a powerful man without virtuous.

2. Macbeth is the tragic hero .3. A solider to a murderer : Macbeth4. Lady Macbeth a deeply ambitious

woman who lusts for power and position.

Macbeth Lady Macbeth

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth embody the main themes

of the play.

1. The major themes of the play are ambition and its corrupting effects.

2. The importance of loyalty and honor.

3. Good versus evil and the power of fate.

4. The couple entails by battle between good and evil when they are trying to make important decisions.

The importance of honor and loyalty

• The importance of honor and loyalty is another prominent theme throughout the play.

• The examples of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in the play.

• The idea which Shakespeare wants to tell everyone.

The influence of fate and the power

• The influence of fate and the power which shape people’s lives are the major theme in the play Macbeth.

• The examples of three witches, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

Lady Macbeth’s Power to Manipulate Macbeth’s True Feelings.

1. Lady Macbeth has a strong influence on him and is a primary cause for increasing Macbeth’s ambition.

2. She greatly helps him throughout the play to get him through many problems.

Conclusion1. Lady Macbeth’s deep-seated ambition,

rather than her husband’s, that ultimately propels the plot of the play by goading Macbeth to murder Duncan. Macbeth does not need any help coming up with the idea of murdering Duncan, but it seems unlikely that he would have committed the murder without his wife’s powerful taunts and persuasions.

2. Macbeth saw that the first prediction have been truth therefore makes him to cast greedy eyes on the throne and on every prediction that he heard.

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Macbeth_(Shakespeare)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth