"From the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty", a line Lady Macbeth brings to us in her soliloquy. It's quite a confusing line because why would anyone want to be filled with wickedness? Lady Macbeth is an interesting character, in my opinion. She really gives the play some edge. She tells her husband, Macbeth, that he is too soft for what he wants. If he wants to be king, he needs a little evil in him to achieve that goal. Macbeth has a totally different approach on the situation. He believes if he's meant to be king, it will happen. Lady Macbeth however takes matters into her own hands. In the quote above she tells us her desire to be filled with cruelty so that she can justify her motive of doing what she needs to do in order for her husband to be crowned king.
Lady Macbeth seems to want the royalty title more than her husband, but unfortunately she doesn't have much control of his inheritance of the king's crown. So instead she tells her husband he must kill King Duncan. If she could she would I'm sure. Her strategy was to portray a very happy and tranquil atmosphere so they could fool the King into thinking they were harmless. Once they lured him into their home, they would kill him so that Macbeth would finally be King. Macbeth so far doesn't seem to be 100% supportive with the plan, which proves Lady Macbeth's opinion of him being weak and feminine.
One thing that I found interesting was that Macbeth took the witches at their word. Although one was correct, what makes the other one correct? I think they are just using Macbeth to get things done and Lady Macbeth is taking matters into her own hands.
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