Explain Who Is To Blame For The Death Of Lady Macbeth

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In the marvelous play ¨Macbeth¨ written by William shakespeare, A woman by the name of Lady Macbeth convinces and forces her beloved husband,Macbeth, to dethrone the King of Scotland. King Duncan was killed in his sleep by Macbeth and his son was killed in cold blood by a murderer Macbeth hired. These chain of events unfolded because Lady Macbeth believed so heavily that Macbeth should be crowned royalty. Throughout the play,we can see that King and Queen Macbeth are both are very persuasive,but Lady Macbeth is to blame for the death of King duncan and the events that followed. Crowning her more persuasive and ambitious.
In Act 1 scene 5, Lady Macbeth opens a letter to reveal a troubling fate predicted by the three witches. Almost immediately upon reading it, she comes to the conclusion that Macbeth must kill King Duncan. ¨What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature;It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great,Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly.¨ Sheś using pathos, Lady Macbeth knows her husband is enriched with the milk of kindness, he surely can´t do
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Macbeth suddenly can´t follow through his plan due to King Duncan praising him earlier. Almost immediately, Lady Macbeth blows a fuse and tries once more to fully convince Macbeth to commit to what he promised her. ¨Was the hope drunk Where in you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely?.¨ Lady Macbeth strongly appeals to pathos during this extraordinary performance. She calls him a coward and questions his manhood. He provides a counter argument by claiming a man would never kill someone so innocent and helpful. But Lady Macbeth believes otherwise. She claims Macbeth is an animal for wanting to kill Duncan before and by not doing what he said makes him less of

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