Kohlmann, Anja

10H
Ms. Clark
Period 1
Husband & Wife

As husband and wife, it is well known to be loyal and honest to your spouse, your loved
one, your best friend, and companion. When you love a person dearly, you do whats right to
help support one another and never mistreat each other for your own ambitions. Whereas
Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, these two love each other; although theyre own wantings
get in the way, in which destroys the bond manship of their love and their marriage.

Macbeth feels the need to murder Duncan, his king; due to the fact that Malcolm,
Macbeths rival, is next in line for throne and Macbeth is not. Furthermore, if Macbeth becomes
king, Lady Macbeth will be Queen and she will do whatever it takes to do so. Lady Macbeth
helps plan the murder for her husband and is eager to get it done with, although Macbeths guilty
conscience gets the best of him and he is terrified to kill an innocent man.

To help her husband man up, Lady Macbeth says a speech on manhood and almost talks
as if she is not a woman anymore, but a man ready to kill; in which manipulates Macbeth. The
raven himself is hoarse/That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan/Under my battlements. Come

you spirits/That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,/And fill me from the crown to the topfull/Of direst cruelty./Make thick my blood. (I, IV, 45-50)

Once the plan has been made, Macbeth succeeds at killing Duncan when he arrives to his
castle at night. Although, Macbeth is mortified and cries out about how there is so much blood
on his hands, that there is not enough water to clean it up. Lady Macbeth, annoyed by her
husband being a coward, says that it is no big deal and that only a little water is needed. After
their discussion and wrongdoing, this shows, at first, that Lady Macbeth is not guilty in any way
possible; while Macbeth slowly becomes a psychopath and is terrified of everything.

In addition, Macbeth begins murdering anyone who he believes will get in his way from
becoming king, even though people in Scotland know that he murdered Duncan; in which they
will do what they can to stop Macbeth. However, in the beginning, we see how Lady Macbeth is
confident and very ambitious, she wants to be Queen and she will get that position; but the story
later shows that she is not resting well anymore and has a guilty conscience, revealing that she is
not strong and courageous as we thought she was and dies from illness in the end.

In Conclusion, Macbeth hears the information about his wife passing away, but because
of his focus on killing, he reveals that he did not really love Lady Macbeth, even though she put
so much effort to support him. She would have died hereafter (V, V, 20) This line indicates that
Macbeth sees his wifes death as an inconvenience and is ashamed that she didnt die later

because he now cant say any words to her. Even though Lady Macbeth showed, some what
support to her husband and helped plan the murder of Duncan, she still hid her true feelings of
how strong and courageous she was; but tried anyway to help her husband. Sadly, she ends up
sick and terrified. Macbeth does not care about anyone, except for himself and remains a
depressed but intense character, who dies after his horrible crimes.