Macbeth And Lady Macbeth, A dealike Butcher And A fiend? Essay

"This dead like butcher and his fiend like tabby" is this a fair description of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth?Malcolm do the remark "This dead like butcher and his fiend like queen," when he was crowned as the queen of Scotland, after Macbeths reign of terror. It becomes questionable upon the fairness of this beneficialification, whether or not Macbeth was really a "butcher" and whether or not Lady Macbeth was a "fiend." In almost ways, Macbeth would have fit the description of being a "butcher," after all, he had taken the lives of many people, some of them were even so close associates of Macbeth. He assassinated Duncan, the king, in order to gain the throne, as he says,"I have done the deed"He also murdered Banquo, who was his best friend, due to two antithetic reasons. The first is the witches prophecies, which predicted that Banquos son is to become king, and secondly, there is a sense that Banquo has his suspicions on the assass inator of the king. Acting under the name of fear, he slaughtered Lady Macduff and her son, due to the prophecies made by the witches, "Beware the thane of Fife"Macbeth only resolved himself into a far more stereotypical villain when he felt that he had gone to far, as he says,"I am in blood stepped I do far."His ambition of staying king now begins to spur him toward further horrifying deeds, and he starts to disregard and even challenge fate and fortune. Each successive murder reduces his human characteristics still further, until he appears to be the more dominant partner in the marriage. Nevertheless, the new-found resolve, which causes Macbeth to "wade" before into his self-created river of blood, is persistently alarmed by supernatural events, the ghost of Banquo, an evidence suggesting Macbeth isnt at the right state of mind, that his guilt has affected him deeply.Macbeth was also seen as a merciless tyrannical king, as he is referred to by Malcolm an d Macduff, as "tyrant," and "a devil." In order to protect his title, Macbeth had to murder those who get in his way, and he even plant spies in every household in Scotland. Near to the end, Macbeth has even,"Forgot the taste of fears"Its as if he had overcome fear, which had made him able to be ruthless, and murderous.On the other cut into the j... ...an interpret Lady Macbeth as, the dominant, commanding wife with an ambition to be queen bigger that Macbeths ambition of being King. Or the manipulative wife, whose ambition is just as big as Macbeth.Lady Macbeth may be described as a fiend by Malcolm, and may have been a fiend to an termination, that she manipulated her husband into doing the things Macbeth has done, which may have been against Macbeths will. She also accused her husband on being a coward, showing that she could fit the description as a fiend. However, she is not what we would nominate as purely evil, or lacking humanity, because she, i s after all, a woman, whose instinct still remains with her, despite what she had done. She was also washed over by guilt, and became mentally deranged, even before Macbeth.Overall, the remarks that Malcolm made may have their justifications, as to an extent, both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are a pair of "butcher and his fiend queen". However, to an extent these justifications may not fit either Macbeth or Lady Macbeth, as they have had their own humanity within them, as if the "butcher" and "fiend" were just a part of Macbeth and Lady Macbeths alter ego.