Rhetorical Analysis Of Lady Macbeth

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In this excerpt from Act 1 scene 7 of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, Lady Macbeth confronts her husband about his uncertainty of murdering King Duncan. Shakespeare’s connotative diction , vivid imagery, persuasive and manipulative tone towards Macbeth displays her twisted ideas of convincing her husband to murder Duncan. In the beginning of the excerpt, Lady Macbeth questions Macbeth,“was the hope drunk/wherein you dress’d yourself?”(1) suggesting that in the beginning,Macbeth was drunk when he had so much hope. Macbeth slowly starts to change his mind after realizing that they can not just kill the king and get away with it easily.Macbeth realized that if he kills Duncan, it would be a violation of the trust and kinship of hospitality.
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