Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Act I the plan
Macbeth tells his wife flatly, “We will proceed no further in this business.” However, Lady Macbeth changes his mind completely. Describe the arguments by which she persuades him to carry out her plan. What are Lady Macbeth’s exact plans for murdering Duncan and for hiding her and her husband’s guilt?
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Sachi Ohara
Ms. Hogshead
English 12-1
3 November 2008
When Macbeth told his wife that he was not going to kill Duncan, she easily manipulated him into do so by questioning his muscularity. Lady Macbeth constantly asked her husband whether he was a chicken and not manly enough to kill a man and she also argued that it was necessary because it was fate. The exact plans of Lady Macbeth for murdering Duncan was to tell the guards to go, let Macbeth kill the King and blame it to the servant.
Sachi, are they able to hide their guilt from themselves?
The plan in the beginning was to get the guards drunk enough to pass out, so Macbeth could go a murder Duncan. Appearantly, Macbeth is a coward for first saying he cannot kill Duncan. I do not think they can hide the guilt, especially Macbeth, because he is a lot weaker than Lady Macbeth.
The way Lady Macbeth pressured Macbeth to kill Duncan was questioning his manhood. By asking him if he was a chicken. Her plans for killing Duncan were: she would get them drunk and let Macbeth kill Duncan and later blame it on the servants after they would find him killed.
evidently both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth aren't able to hide their guilt from themselves, as we read that Lady Macbeth had sleepwalking (act V scene i) and was trying to take out the spots of blood which she had on her hands, for the murder of Duncan, expect that she couldn't take them out because she was sleeping therefore it was imaginary, proving that her subconscious was affected and her guilt for murder was still inside her.
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