I have never read it, but apparently an ex-boyfriend of mine has. This happened actually years ago, but I just never felt like checking out what he was talking about because I'm sure it's not very flattering. What happened is, when we broke up, he told me I am just like Lady Macbeth. What was she like?
2007-01-06 17:28:42 · 7 answers · asked by ? 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I think it safe to say that : This is not a compliment.
do you know the old saying : "Behind every successful man is a good woman." Well, Lady Macbeth is exactly the opposite. She is more ambitious and more hardened to murder than her husband, and goads Macbeth on to betray and murder the king and usurp the crown for himself as king (and she as queen !)
To call someone a "Lady Macbeth", is to imply they are "conniving, ambitious, ruthless and manipulative,cold-hearted and eventually, mad ."
2007-01-06 18:44:37 · answer #1 · answered by JOHN B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lady Macbeth - Macbeth’s wife, a deeply ambitious woman who lusts for power and position. Early in the play she seems to be the stronger and more ruthless of the two, as she urges her husband to kill Duncan and seize the crown. After the bloodshed begins, however, Lady Macbeth falls victim to guilt and madness to an even greater degree than her husband. Her conscience affects her to such an extent that she eventually commits suicide. Interestingly, she and Macbeth are presented as being deeply in love, and many of Lady Macbeth’s speeches imply that her influence over her husband is primarily sexual. Their joint alienation from the world, occasioned by their partnership in crime, seems to strengthen the attachment that they feel to each another.
2007-01-07 01:38:13 · answer #2 · answered by Joe D 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think your bf was trying to tell you that you are obsessive maybe. There's a famous scene in Macbeth when Lady Macbeth is trying to wash off the blood from her hands and she goes a bit crazy. She repeatedly washes her hands even though the real blood is already gone. Her psyche can't handle the bad things she's done and she has a break down.
2007-01-07 01:45:48 · answer #3 · answered by Core 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lady Macbeth makes his husband break his bonds of loyalty and friendship for pure greed, knowing beforehand that it would be their doom.
If you don't feel like reading the book, i would recommend you go out and rent Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress.
2007-01-07 01:46:47 · answer #4 · answered by Neurobasher 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ouch! You have just been called manipulative and conniving. In the end Lady MacBeth killed herself in essence because she was weak. I'm sure your ex boyfriend was predicting that your manipulative and conniving behavior will do you in. In other words you have self destructive behavior. Again..... OUCH!
2007-01-07 14:31:31 · answer #5 · answered by Susan B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lady Macbeth manipulated her husband to kill the King - then went insane & killed herself.
There's plenty of literarly discussion about the strength of her character, the condition of their marriage etc etc etc.
But believe me that being compared to her is a negative comment.
2007-01-07 01:43:49 · answer #6 · answered by Rai A 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She manipulated/convinced her husband to kill the king, the worst sin during the days of Macbeth, for power. She did this, however, because she thought he was too weak to do it himself.
He was saying you were manipulative and that you nagged him to do things you thought he was too weak to do himself.
2007-01-07 01:37:59 · answer #7 · answered by Lauren 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋