Leadership In Macbeth

Mourning the weakness and inability of her gender, Lady Macbeth urges her husband to follow through with their devious designs. Inevitably, he gives in and completes the first of many horrendous deeds. Out of all his associates, Macbeth’s wife may actually have pushed him to murder to obtain the kingdom, with or without a prophecy. Yet, she could have had apprehensions of her own, or doubted her husband’s ability, thus deciding to keep her ambitions to herself. One thing is certain: she is a twisted enough person to contemplate such a purely evil

Although she did not kill anyone, she is also part of the wrongdoing because the way she supported her husband. Throughout the play, Lady Macbeth sees that the guilt and the different emotions her husband is going through, she too is also going through the same thing. In the beginning Lady Macbeth called out Macbeth for not being man enough to kill anyone and said that he had too much human emotion “That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage to remorse” (Shakespeare, 1.5.42-45). So she called upon the spirits to unsex her so she wouldn’t feel anything when someone had died, she is saying in this line that she would have the most cruelty, and would be able to stop grieving about someone’s death.

She states that King Duncan is ill-fated because she will not think twice about murdering him and seizing the throne. Lady Macbeth also says “unsex me,” meaning that she wants the passive, kind, and weak traits to be taken away from her and instead she wants to be filled up with cruelty. Macbeth is hesitant, but Lady Macbeth tells him to leave it all to her, therefore revealing that her thoughts and plans are ruthless, foreboding, and greedy.

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth incorporates different symbols to demonstrate a clear motif of power. Macbeth being a tragedy projects this idea that with power there are consequences; this power is a strong force that many humans ought to want. The ideology of power throughout the play is communicated to the audience via the main character whom the play is named after. Macbeth’s ambition and greed for power is ultimately displayed through liquids incorporated in Shakespeare's language.

Macbeth, he conveys the idea that self-perception drives a person’s thought processes, which in turn show through their actions; therefore, if their self-perception is extremely negative, their flaws will be before them constantly and will create a false reality for them to dwell in. Lady Macbeth exemplifies this idea, revealing through her thoughts and actions how her guilt changes the way she views herself and causes her to live unattached from reality. In the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth is a cold hearted, brave, practical, and strong character. She perceives that she is soft because she is a woman, so she calls upon spirits and is determined to become “...full of direst cruelty.”

Because Macbeth’s and Lady Macbeth’s decision to murder Duncan, Both face the guilt of the power they abused portrays on the shadows that reflect on them as well as the natural consequences they will face. During the first half of the play, Lady Macbeth expresses her unnatural feelings and this is demonstrated through the corruption of power when she want’s to hire people to kill Duncan because she thinks that Macbeth is too scared. At first, when Lady Macbeth hinted “Their drenchèd natures lies as in a death”(1.7.78). This demonstrates that Lady Macbeth is characterizing corruption of power due to the fact that she want's to kill Duncan, therefore she can be queen of cawdor while Macbeth is king.

After reading the letter from Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is bloodthirsty and obsessed with planning the murder of Duncan. She immediately starts plotting, with no second thoughts about the severity of what she is doing. This desire for bloodshed is fueled by how “she craves power,” and is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve that power (Thompson 8). It is

Subsequently, her husband's cruelty and her own guilt recoil on her, sending her into a madness from which she never recovers. Though Macbeth would listen to his wife and commit to the crime of Duncan’s murder, he knew once the act was finished and he became king, revenge would soon come upon him. He states this by saying in Act 1 Scene 7, “To our own lips. He’s here in double trust:” the murder would be the be-all and end-all of the whole affair, and I would gladly put my soul and the afterlife at risk to do it. But for crimes like these there are still punishments in this world.

Richard Gill (275) also opines that “Macbeth does great evil, but his acts can hardly be blamed on the sister’s”, and “it’s natural for him to want to be the leader”(274). So, it conveys that Macbeth’s crime is natural, but unnatural to Lady Macbeth. We see that “masculine brutality is celebrated in Macbeth’s character, readers today find the similar passionate drive in Lady Macbeth to be vile and horrible” (Kathrynbuckk n.pag.). Marilyn French (17) notices “Lady Macbeth is not so judged; she is seen as supernaturally evil. Her crime is heinous because it violates her social role, which has been erected into a principle of experience: She fails to uphold the feminine principle.”

An Exploration of Power in Shakespeare’s Works Power, as countless quotes and political figures have taught us, is either the tool of a justified disciplinarian or, more often, the weapon of choice for the malicious despot. As such, every generation of writers has embraced its complexities in the hopes of shedding new light on this ancient yet ever-evolving concept. These writers, Shakespeare included, help to both define the role of power in the past and outline an ideal for it in the future. In The Tragedy of Macbeth, Macbeth is consumed by a need to be king as his humanity slowly peels away, revealing a grim picture in which primal urges rule. Similarly, throughout The Tragedy of King Lear, Lear finds himself slowly go mad with the knowledge

Leadership is more than a title. It's a role, a rule you must fulfill. You, my audience have a choice to be a just leader, or a corrupt one. I will guide you through the just path. If you decide to be corrupt.

Lady Macbeth tries to mask her guilt by covering up for her husband, but eventually comes to grips with her own instability. In Macbeth, Shakespeare asserts that power drives the title character and his wife to insanity, particularly after their conspiracy to kill Duncan. For starters, prior to killing Duncan, Macbeth imagines the likely consequences of his future actions and whether or not they signal his destiny. At the beginning

Twisted by power, Macbeth is a thrilling tale revealing just how far a man will go to retain his rule. “Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown And put a barren scepter in my grip, Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding. If ’t be so, For Banquo’s issue have I filed my mind,” Macbeth stated, showing his deteriorating mental state, and immense hunger for power. This play was a work of fiction, nevertheless the reality of the issue is all too real. This disastrous tale was written in 1606 by William Shakespeare, and was designed specifically for King James, who was renowned for hunting witches throughout his life.

What drives apparently good men to become ruthless, ambitious, jealous and greedy? We see an example of this in the play “Macbeth” performed at Pop Up Globe, directed by Tom Mallaburn, was written originally by the well-known author, William Shakespeare. Macbeth is based upon a big tragedy, where the two main characters, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, inevitably were forced to do evil things due to their ambition; taste the sweetness of victory and then downfall again. Although the play was written by an English author, Shakespeare smartly sets his story based upon the idea of ambition, a concept that relates to all of us, no matter where we are from. We have to admit that in our minds, the concept of power and ambition is linked to men.

It’s a world where you’re never sure whether it´s a real dagger or an apparition, an illusion or Banquo 's ghost. It´s a world where you can’t trust anyone including the witches. Throughout this essay, I will be comparing the text version Macbeth to the 2010 modernized version Macbeth. I then will analyze the how the change in format affected the witches, the choices of scenery, and Macbeth. ‘Tis time, ‘tis time.