When she finds out that Macbeth does not want to do it either, she calls him a coward: Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valor As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting I dare not" wait upon I would, " Like the poor cat i' the adage? ...
We see her as she analyses his virtues and weaknesses and decides to overcome his scruples, "hie thee hither That I may pour my spirits at thine ear" Is there any evidence here as to why she wishes him to be king? Overcome By Ambition - When she calls on the powers of evil to unsex her and make her cruel, does this imply that she fears her own womanliness and realises the unnaturalness of the murder of Duncan? ...
At one point of the play, Lady Macbeth goes as far as to reject her own gender. ... When Macbeth is afraid to,"proceed no further in this business (I, VII, 32)," Lady Macbeth does not hesitate to call him a,"coward in thine own esteem (I, VI, 43)." ... Instead, Macbeth chose to not follow his own intuition and ended up dead....
