Extrinsic Relationships In Macbeth
Macbeth Essay Extrinsic and Intrinsic Relationships
Often times in literature, one can gain an excessive amount of self-confidence by possessing power which could potentially lead to his or her downfall. This could be the effect of not only the decisions made that affect the personality of one’s self, but also others impacting the decisions made. In the play, Macbeth, William Shakespeare effectively demonstrates both extrinsic and intrinsic forces, that being, the intrinsic forces play a larger role for the downfall of Macbeth. The forces of the supernatural, Lady Macbeth, and Macbeth himself all accumulate to his downfall. The evil intentions of the witches that fate has brought to Macbeth has both initiated from the three predictions, …show more content…
Lady Macbeth instigating masculine qualities within Macbeth to kill Duncan results in Macbeth’s tyrant like nature. When Macbeth is no longer willing to follow through the plan of murdering Duncan, Lady Macbeth changes his opinion by convincing him of being a man, she states, “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 than what you were, you would be so much more the man.” (I, VII, 52-56). Lady Macbeth manipulates Macbeth by defining characteristics of a man which lead him to perform riskful tasks that otherwise he would not have done. Likewise, Lady Macbeth truly manipulating Macbeth can easily be recognized when she receives the letter and describes Macbeth, “It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness” (I, V, 16). Lady Macbeth knows that Macbeth is too innocent to kill Duncan, this is why she is determined to build up a destructive type of courage in Macbeth; otherwise, Macbeth would have remained the same and most likely would not have considered killing the king. Moreover, Lady Macbeth constantly assures Macbeth to go further towards his crimes when he is in a stage of doubtfulness. When Macbeth is insecure about their plan to kill Duncan, Lady Macbeth says, “We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we’ll not fail.” (I, VII, 66-68). This is a straightforward response of Lady Macbeth possessing courage of not only pushing herself forwards, but also Macbeth to a crime that neither have committed before. One can also observe Lady Macbeth’s assurance on Macbeth when he hallucinates Banquo’s ghost and is very confused as to why no one else sees it. Lady Macbeth simply says it is his personal hallucination, “This is the very painting of
Often times in literature, one can gain an excessive amount of self-confidence by possessing power which could potentially lead to his or her downfall. This could be the effect of not only the decisions made that affect the personality of one’s self, but also others impacting the decisions made. In the play, Macbeth, William Shakespeare effectively demonstrates both extrinsic and intrinsic forces, that being, the intrinsic forces play a larger role for the downfall of Macbeth. The forces of the supernatural, Lady Macbeth, and Macbeth himself all accumulate to his downfall. The evil intentions of the witches that fate has brought to Macbeth has both initiated from the three predictions, …show more content…
Lady Macbeth instigating masculine qualities within Macbeth to kill Duncan results in Macbeth’s tyrant like nature. When Macbeth is no longer willing to follow through the plan of murdering Duncan, Lady Macbeth changes his opinion by convincing him of being a man, she states, “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 than what you were, you would be so much more the man.” (I, VII, 52-56). Lady Macbeth manipulates Macbeth by defining characteristics of a man which lead him to perform riskful tasks that otherwise he would not have done. Likewise, Lady Macbeth truly manipulating Macbeth can easily be recognized when she receives the letter and describes Macbeth, “It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness” (I, V, 16). Lady Macbeth knows that Macbeth is too innocent to kill Duncan, this is why she is determined to build up a destructive type of courage in Macbeth; otherwise, Macbeth would have remained the same and most likely would not have considered killing the king. Moreover, Lady Macbeth constantly assures Macbeth to go further towards his crimes when he is in a stage of doubtfulness. When Macbeth is insecure about their plan to kill Duncan, Lady Macbeth says, “We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we’ll not fail.” (I, VII, 66-68). This is a straightforward response of Lady Macbeth possessing courage of not only pushing herself forwards, but also Macbeth to a crime that neither have committed before. One can also observe Lady Macbeth’s assurance on Macbeth when he hallucinates Banquo’s ghost and is very confused as to why no one else sees it. Lady Macbeth simply says it is his personal hallucination, “This is the very painting of