"Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it." This quote was
said by Mark Twain explaining what courage is. It means that you have to face
what you are afraid of, your fears. Lady Macbeth is just the opposite in Macbeth.
In this play, Lady Macbeth is not as strong a person she would like to be. She
was not able to drug the guards without drinking, kill Duncan, or live with the fact
First, Lady Macbeth is not a strong person, she shows signs of weakness.
This is evident in act two, scene two, of Macbeth. In this scene Lady Macbeth
had to get everything in order for Macbeth, so the murder of Duncan would go
smooth. This included laying the knives in place and drugging the guards. Lady
Macbeth said: "That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What
hath quenched them have given me fire." This quote explains that Lady Macbeth
had to drink a little to get up her courage to drug the guards and lay the knives in
place for the murder. She didn't have the courage to drug the guards without
having anything in her system to calm her or make her brave. It shows that she
was very scared and nervous before the murder so she had to drink to fix her
problems. This action also shows that Lady Macbeth was not a strong character,
this is also clear right after the murder of Duncan.
Lady Macbeth is not a strong person as she would like to be. This is
apparent in act two, scene two of Macbeth. In this scene, Macbeth has just
murdered Duncan and Lady Macbeth said: "Had he had not resembled my father
as he slept, I had one't." This quote means that Duncan had reminded Lady
Macbeth of her own father, so that was her reason why she could not kill him. It
seems clear that Lady Macbeth was a big talker and did not have the courage to
kill Duncan. She would rather make Macbeth think that she had the courage but
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