Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7 Analysis
It takes a lot to murder someone. It takes a lot of courage and nerve, and you can't back down at the last moment or chicken out. However, it can also take some persuasion. These are wise words that Lady Macbeth not-so-kindly tells Macbeth. At the beginning of Act 1. Scene 7, Macbeth is contemplating whether murdering King Duncan is such a grand idea after all. “I dare do all that may become a man. Who dares do more is none” (47). He is extremely hesitant- he wants to become king but he is unsure of himself and his actions- yet he decides to follow through and let ambition get the best of him. He is very ambitious at this moment, and he is listening to the Weird Sisters instead of his heart.
Other people are intervening in his life, thinking that they know best. His dreams were to remain dreams until his wife encouraged him to follow through with his aspirations with rather explicit inspirational sayings. She also encouraged him with rhetorical questions and insults, because she knows who she’s dealing with, and she knows his weak spots. She lets him know how powerful and noble men were supposed to be, “When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be …show more content…
He looks at both sides, the right and the wrong, and eventually decides that the wrong is good for him, yet it will cause the downfall of other characters and himself. He made a choice and that choice was entirely his, his wife didn’t force him to murder King Duncan- she just woke up the beast inside Macbeth and told him he’d be more than a man if he were to kill Duncan. He’d be king, and then he wouldn’t have to worry about his sins. He understood his wife’s desire for power because he felt it too. His motives align with his wife’s in that he wants power and he wants to fulfill the Weird Sisters prophecy. Macbeth suffered from self-doubt and questioned his manliness before murdering the
Other people are intervening in his life, thinking that they know best. His dreams were to remain dreams until his wife encouraged him to follow through with his aspirations with rather explicit inspirational sayings. She also encouraged him with rhetorical questions and insults, because she knows who she’s dealing with, and she knows his weak spots. She lets him know how powerful and noble men were supposed to be, “When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be …show more content…
He looks at both sides, the right and the wrong, and eventually decides that the wrong is good for him, yet it will cause the downfall of other characters and himself. He made a choice and that choice was entirely his, his wife didn’t force him to murder King Duncan- she just woke up the beast inside Macbeth and told him he’d be more than a man if he were to kill Duncan. He’d be king, and then he wouldn’t have to worry about his sins. He understood his wife’s desire for power because he felt it too. His motives align with his wife’s in that he wants power and he wants to fulfill the Weird Sisters prophecy. Macbeth suffered from self-doubt and questioned his manliness before murdering the