Macbeth Essay, Outline One.

Topic: Lady Macbeth is a weak, fragile woman.    

References:

- Act One, Scene Five, Page 63 and 65

   - Lady Macbeth calls upon evil to help her become stronger to commit the murder, making her look weak because she cannot look to herself to commit it alone.

- Act One, Scene Seven, Page 73 and 75

   - Lady Macbeth tricks her husband into changing his opinion on the King's murder by threatening his manhood, and calling him a woman. Something a fragile Woman would do because they could not achieve this by force or threats like a man would do.

- Act Two, Scene Two, Page 81-89

   - Lady Macbeth is paranoid due to fear and guilt of what they are doing (i.e Duncan's murder)

   - She talks about alcohol being the source of her courage, meaning that she is cowardly and afraid

   - Lady Macbeth says the line: "Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done ’t.". 

        - this showing another large sign of weakness from her because it shows she has a heart, just like a typical woman

   - when Macbeth is starting to freak out about the murder, Lady Macbeth just keeps telling him not to think about it or they will start going crazy 

   - After Lady Macbeth sees that Macbeth has forgotten to leave the daggers, and he is to traumatized to take them back she calls him a weak, scared child

   -Lady Macbeth tells her husband that it is simple to wash away the act of murder, simply just wash the blood off you. Ironic because she never is able to get the vision of blood out of her mind. This line is sort of a mirror of her fears, Lady Macbeth's fear that she will never be able to wash away the trauma or regret after killing the King.   

- Act Two, Scene Three, Page 97 

   - Lady Macbeth can't stand to be near the dead body, possibly a act or her actually feeling towards the murder

- Act Three, Scene Two, Page 115

   - Lady Macbeth says;

"Naught’s had, all’s spent,

Where our desire is got without content.

'Tis safer to be that which we destroy

Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy."

   - Meaning If you get what you want and you’re still not happy, you’ve spent everything and gained nothing. It’s better to be the person who gets murdered than to be the killer and be tormented with anxiety.

   - This indicating Lady Macbeth's fears and true feelings about the murder; she is tormented by the murder and can't stand what she has done

   - Lady Macbeth keeps telling her husband over and over again to stop thinking about the murder, because it cannot be changed now. This reflecting her fears about the murder, and that she cannot stop thinking about it just has Macbeth can't. She is starting to crack.  

- Act Three, Scene Four, Page 125-133

   - Lady Macbeth starts to panic and crack under the pressure of keeping the secret when her husband sees Banquo's ghost

   - Lady Macbeth threatens his manhood again in hopes to snap Macbeth back to reality

- Act Five, Scene One, Page 177-181

   - Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking is a large piece of evidence that she is to weak and fragile to handle the murder of Duncan 

   - She talks about Macbeth being scared, but is mirrored as she is the one that is truly scared 

- Act Five, Scene Five, Page 193

   - Macbeth hears a woman crying, it is Lady Macbeth jumping off the roof killing herself

   - This signifying that in the end Lady Macbeth was always a weal, fragile woman no matter how many dark forces she called upon or how many times she attempted to fight it 

Thesis: Lady Macbeth is a weak, fragile woman because no matter how many times she attempted to be strong, in the end she could not handle the realization of murder and committed suicide.