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  • Essay / Thematic Essay: The Tragedy of Macbeth - 1048

    After Lady Macbeth reads her letter and Macbeth arrives home, she is delighted to become queen. She asks Macbeth when King Duncan is due to arrive and tells Macbeth to leave it up to him to decide the plan, his only job being to appear innocent and hide their true intentions. Macbeth appears stunned and nervous, telling his wife that they will talk later when she begins to tell him about her plan. In the seventh scene, at the castle, Macbeth speaks of the intense guilt he feels even before killing Duncan; “…this impartial justice / Recommends the ingredients of our poisoned / Chalice to our own lips…” (1. 7. 10-12) (Shakespeare), “…He is here with double confidence…” (1. 7. 12) ) (Shakespeare), “…Moreover, this Duncan/Has carried his faculties so gently, was/So clear in his great office…” (1. 7. 17-19) (Shakespeare) all express Macbeth's discomfort to the idea of ​​assassinating Duncan to steal the throne. Not only does he convey these emotions during this monologue, but he also does so when Lady Macbeth enters the room saying, “We will go no further in this matter./He has honored me of late, and I bought/Golden opinions from everyone. kinds of people…” (1. 7. 32-34) (Shakespeare). To respond to this, Lady Macbeth does what she does best: emasculate her husband. She first expresses her questioning of her manhood after reading Macbeth's letter in the first act when she says: “Yet I fear thy nature;/It is too full of the milk of human kindness…” (1 5. 2- 3) (Shakespeare), which contrasts with the heroic description that the dying captain gives of Macbeth in the opening scene. After Macbeth tells his wife that he is canceling the plan to kill King Duncan, she