Essay | Macbeth Relationship

Macbeth Relationship

The Macbeth relationship is unique and odd in the way they address each other and speak of their plans. Lady Macbeth takes on a persona in which she seems very confident and is definitely ambitious. "Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full / Of direst cruelty!" (1.5.40-43). Also she speaks to her husband with no respect, like he has wronged her and owes her a great debt. "Was the hope drunk / Wherein you dress'd yourself? Hath it slept since"" (1.7.35-36), then goes on to say, "From this time / Such I account thy love" (1.7.38-39). Here she criticizes him, then says he'll do it if he loves her, she does not hesitate to manipulate and risk him for her ambitions. Macbeth seems to feel that she has...
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