In the play, "Macbeth," animal imagery is an important device used to bring light to change. For example, the chain of being is mentioned many times throughout the play, and is used to emphasize the rising action reaching the climax. In the first battle, when the soldier is explaining the outcome o...
"This even-handed justice commends the ingredience of our poison"d chalice to our own lips." ... Shortly after Macbeth told his wife his reasons against killing Duncan, she accused him of being a "coward in thine own esteem" and "letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would"" (Shakespeare, I, vii, 43-44) The latter was comparing him to the miserable cat, which the proverb said, "would eat fish, but would not wet her feet." ... She was forced, under her own circumstance, to bring out the worse she could think of. ... Lady Macbeth said all this hopping to point out that if she could do such a thing, ...
"Hie thee hither,/ That I may pour my spirits in thine ear,/And chastise with the valor of my tongue/ All that impedes thee from the golden round.... The most outrageous thing she says to try to convince him is that she would kill her own baby to be queen. ... Lady Macbeth's ambition to gain power led to not only her own suicide, but the murder of Macbeth by Macduff. ... She would kill her own baby if it meant she could be queen. ...
Lady Macbeth who knows about Macbeth's intentions, thinks he is being faint-hearted and insults him; 'And live like a coward in thine own esteem'. ... It is clear that Macbeth has to be persuaded by his own wife to turn to evil, showing Macbeth is not completely villainous as a real villain would not be sceptical and have uncertainties about the murder. ...
