Macbeth LRJ #2

Chue Meng Vang



Ms. Peifer


English 10 IB


Febuary 24, 2009


Macbeth and Lady Macbeth


Macbeth and Lady Macbeth both have their positives and negatives. Macbeth's positive is the fact that he feels guilty and can tell that killing the king Duncan was very wrong and immoral.
"This is a sorry sight." (p.57, 28, Macbeth) Macbeth knows his guilt knows what he has done. Also Macbeth is hearing voices in his house about not going to sleep and murder. 'Still it cried "Sleep no more!" To all the house. "Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more." (2, 2, 54-56)
A negative trait to Macbeth is his weak will. He is in a way a puppet of his wife and the witches. Macbeth didn't really want to kill Duncan but he listened to his wife and did as she told him to. Also he really believes the witches words of him becoming king will do him good.
"These deeds must not thought After these ways; so, it will make us mad." (2, 2, 45-46)
Lady Macbeth's positive is the fact that she is still passionate. When she was going to kill Duncan she realized that she couldn't because Duncan reminded her too much of her father.
"I laid their daggers ready: he could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done 't." (2, 2, 15-17)
Lady Macbeth's negative is her ambition. She is willing to do what ever is necessary to get her power. She kind of loses her humanity for her goal of more power.
"Infirm of purpose! Give me the dagger. The sleeping and the dead are but as picture. Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil. If he do bleed , I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, for it must seem their guilt." (2, 2, 68-73)
The image that keeps appearing into my mind is that of death because this is the chapter that Duncan is murdered in and the story kind of revolves around this moment, this is the important moment in the book.