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Macbeth

Macbeth was written by Shakespeare in the early 1600s. It is in some aspects a relatively simple play. Like numerous pre-Shakespearean plays it follows a certain structure, the rise and fall of a man. The first part of the play is about Macbeth’s rise to power. Near the middle he assumes kingship by killing the current king, Duncan. The rest of the play follows the disintegration of all he has achieved, a process which ends with his death and the installment of new king, Malcolm, which was the old king’s son.
By the end of Shakespeare’s "Macbeth," Lady Macbeth has proven that her imagination is stronger than her will. During the beginning of the play, Lady M had been the iron fist and authority icon for Macbeth. She was the voice of determination and hardness, yet deep down, she never carried such traits to begin with. She started this ordeal with a negative, bombastic rhetoric, preying on Macbeth’s weaknesses in order to egg him on. In no way did she make a positive contribution to Macbeth or to herself. However, Macbeth soon becomes more independent and shows more of his own self-ambition. Eventually, Lady Macbeth begins to show her true, stripped away and "wither’d" nature. Lady Macbeth’s vulnerability increases as time passes, and her enthusiasm wanes. Lady Macbeth is mainly responsible for aggravating the struggle between Macbeth’s morality, devotion and "vaulting ambition." This duality in Lady Macbeth’s character plays a huge role in planting the seed for Macbeth’s downfall and eventual demise.
Lady Macbeth imagines that she has the capability to be a remorseless and determined villain, but she isn’t anything of the like in reality. She thinks that her will to follow through with her thoughts outweighs Macbeth’s determination. Lady Macbeth views her husband as "too full o’ the milk of human kindness/To catch the nearest way," (I-v, 16-17). Within the first act, she deems herself the more committing and authoritative person in this couple. She claims that...