Lady Macbeth's Motives Essay

Lady Macbeth’s motives throughout the play was that she wanted to be Queen and Macbeth’s motives was that he wanted to become King in which they both shared motives to be in power. Lady Macbeth's only way to get this power was by her husband becoming king. Lady Macbeth is one of the most evil female characters by being manipulative, cunning and more ambitious than her husband, Macbeth in the beginning of the play. Lady Macbeth receives her husband's letter detailing the witches prophecy which predicts that Macbeth will be king, "Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be what thou art promised… (339).” She then immediately begins to plan Duncan's murder knowing that Macbeth will be king if she does so. She challenges Macbeth’s masculinity throughout …show more content…
The simple part of all is the fact that it allows the actor playing Macbeth to wash the blood from his hands, after Duncan's murder in time for the next scene. However, the Porter scene in Macbeth was written to underscore the insanity of the recent murder scene while providing some comic relief from the somber tone of Lady Macbeth’s madness. The Porter has to explain why there has been such a prolonged knocking at the gate and he explains to Macduff that he and all the other members of the household staff were too drunk to respond. Macbeth had planned to be pretending to be sound asleep when Duncan’s body was discovered and his wife tells him: “Hark, more knocking. Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us and show us to be watchers (353).” However, the knocking forces Macbeth to come down in his nightgown to find out why nobody is opening the gate. The discovery of Duncan’s body is much more dramatic than it would have been without Macbeth’s presence. The audience witnesses Macbeth’s apprehension and understands how he is suffering internally while trying to appear calm and natural. Shakespeare wanted Macduff to discover the body and he wanted Macbeth to be present when he did. These lines are used to make the audience laugh and relieve the tension they are feeling after the murder. Similarly, by allowing the audience a moment of comedy, Shakespeare provides the audience with time for

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