Sunday, October 20, 2013

"And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty!"

Lady Macbeth is extremely ambitious in her soliloquy. She basically wants her husband (Macbeth) to take the heir of the throne as quickly as possible, while her husband is rather the opposite. Macbeth doesn't want to partake in her scheme, but wants fate to just happen. Lady Macbeth decides the bet option is to have her husband leave everything to her, and she should just execute the plan of killing the beloved king.

After reading her soliloquy, I find Lady Macbeth to be a greedy and crazy "gold digger." Her husband recent got the promotion of a thane, yet she still wants to take the title of the king for her husband. When I read this section, I felt a good characteristic we can label Lady Macbeth is someone that is extremely wealth and power driven. I don't understand why her plan of killing the king as important when his husband's fate was already decided. He was going to be king in the future. Thus, this leads to another characteristic of Lady Macbeth: impatient. Whats the point of taking actions in your own hands when fate already has your back? Maybe my thinking is a  tad bit ignorant. Oh well. Maybe you do have to take action to achieve fate?