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?
I agree with what you said at the end, with "take action to achieve fate" because Macbeth became the Thane of Cawdor because the pervious thane had committed awful acts where as like you stated, the King was held highly and loved. I feel as if Lady Macbeth was afraid that the fortune would not carry through if action was not taken so she brought it upon herself to do it.
ReplyDeleteI like your take on this. I never thought about how what Lady Macbeth was doing was not only ambitious but also impatient. She had no interest in waiting to see how fate played out, which ties into the theme of being overly ambitious and not allowing fate to do its job, that is relevant all through out Macbeth.
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