At this point in Macbeth, Lady Macbeth has just found out
that her husband Macbeth has been promoted after all of his brave deeds in the
battles. Also Macbeth writes about how
three witches that he encountered all praised him for his accomplishments, but
it was interesting how he was called by a different name by each one. One witch calls him the Thane of Cawdor,
Thane of Glamis, and also called a king.
However, he is really the Thane of Cawdor, but he did not know that he
was going to be promoted, so he believed that the one witch was predicting the
future.
Macbeth is happy and he believes that he has a good future
ahead of him because he thinks that he could become king. However, Lady Macbeth knows that he would not
be powerful enough to overthrow the king since he is too nice. Based off of this idea, she writes how she
can become evil and become a killer in order to overthrow the king, so she
writes “from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty.” By saying this, she is showing that she just
wants Macbeth to be king by all means necessary, which would include killing
the king and his heirs. I feel that this
is very interesting because now Macbeth’s actions seem like they will be driven
by Lady Macbeth’s ideas. She will want
to constantly achieve higher power, so it will create mayhem between Macbeth
and her, in addition to people whose lives are at risk.
