A burden is problem or a responsibility that causes someone a lot of difficulty or worry- like a weight that remains on their shoulder. The term ‘Takes its toll’ means to affect negatively; In other words, a negative outcome.
For example, cancer takes its toll on people’s health. Develop means to grow and expand. Express means to show or convey thought or feelings. Doubt means a feeling of uncertainty or guilt. Malicious means evil or intended to do harm.
In this essay, I will be discussing who is more responsible for the death of Duncan? Is Lady Macbeth more malevolent than her husband and, if so why?? How do the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth grow over the course of the play? To begin with, in Shakespeare’s MIT education Act 1 Scene 5 Page 15, Lady Macbeth proclaims, “Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valour of my tongue”. After reading Macbeth’s letter, Lady Macbeth is eager to divulge her plan for Macbeth’s quick ascension to the throne of Scotland. Additionally, she immediately shares his ambitions but fears he’ll be too weak to murder the King in Act 1 Scene 5 Page 15, “It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness”. On top of this, A messenger brings news that King Duncan is coming to stay under her roof.
Delighted, she begins steeling herself to commit murder. Macbeth enters, and she immediately begins persuading him to go through with the assassination, urging him to act natural and telling him to “Leave all the rest to me” in Act 1 scene 5 Page 17. As a result, these are all examples that Lady Macbeth is more responsible than Macbeth. However, Macbeth could be more obliged than Lady Macbeth as he was the one to physically murder Duncan with the dagger in Act 2 Scene 1 Page 25, “Hear it not, Duncan, for it is knell that summons thee to heaven, or to hell”.
In other words, “Do not hear it, Duncan, it’s a bell that summons you to heaven or to hell!”. Moreover, when Macbeth first heard the prophecies, which later two of them came true; he does consider murdering Duncan. Nevertheless, towards the end of Act 1 Scene 3 Page 11, he thinks that perhaps he doesn’t need to do anything to become the king, “If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir.” Yet, when Lady Macbeth receives the letter informing her about the witches’ prophecies, she immediately decides that she and Macbeth need to murder Duncan.
Lady Macbeth is a malicious and manipulative mastermind. To begin, she conceives the entire plan and hashes out the details before Macbeth even truly considers taking action to make the prophecies come true. She is the one who urges Macbeth to frame the guards by getting them intoxicated and actually prepares the murder scene for Macbeth to take Duncan’s life. We can infer this, as in Act 1 Scene 7 Page 21, Lady Macbeth exclaims, “What not put upon his spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt of our great quell?”. To put it more simply, “What can’t we blame on his sodden officers? They’ll get the blame for our great murder”.
Due to this, the chamberlains would have to go through the death penalty, which indicates that Lady Macbeth shows no sympathy for the chamberlains and that she is truly a malicious person. Despite the fact, according to Quora.com, by Gill Bullen- a retired teacher from Itchen Sixth Form College (written on March 30th 2017), states that, “The maximum penalty for treason used to be death penalty, but this was changed a few years ago, and a life sentence in prison is now the maximum”. Likewise, in Act 1 Scene 7 Page 21, Lady Macbeth claims “Who dares receive it other, as we shall make our griefs and clamour roar upon upon his death?”. Specifically, “Who could think it happened any other way? We’ll be grieving loudly when we hear that Duncan has died”. This illustrates, that Lady Macbeth is malevolent as she will be faking her grief when Duncan’s death has been perceived publicly. Equally, in Act 1 Scene 5 Page 16, “Unsex me here” recites Lady Macbeth, as she is referring
