Do you have any sympathy at all for both, one or neither of the Macbeths?
In life everyone has goals that they hope to attain and there are many ways that one can achieve these goals. To achieve what you desire you can either wait for time to take its toll, or take matters into your own hands and do what you have to do in order to fulfil your desires. You can attain your goal as long as you have ambition. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth had the goal of Macbeth becoming king: to obtain this they took matters into hands and killed Duncan. In order for somebody to commit such a heinous act as murder the conspirators must be ruthless, and this is what Macbeth and Lady Macbeth were, ruthless. This ruthlessness provides little support, for any or some sympathy for the characters at the end of the play. Lady Macbeth is more ruthless than her husband and her ruthlessness is what fuelled the murder of Duncan. Her ruthlessness and power hunger led ambition is shown when she is first seen in the play at Act 1 Scene 5; the letter reading scene. In this scene Lady Macbeth comments on her thoughts after having read the letter from her husband, she knows that her husband who is ‘too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness’ (too kind and nice in other words) may have trouble facing up and having the
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Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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