Macbeth Duncan's Death Analysis

Who is most powerful, woman or man? Women have more power since they are able to decide weather to birth or kill, they have the choice between giving life or causing death. This is depicted within Macbeth. Lady Macbeth causes the death of Duncan and the downfall of her husband by using her sexual relationship, as shown by her foreshadowing. She is the one to blame for Duncan 's death as portrayed by her guilty, ironic words spoken while sleepwalking, and causes her husband 's downfall since she taunts his manliness using rhetorical questions thus making him kill Duncan but also causing him to continuously try and convince her of his manliness. She did not know of the other murder plans, but is still to blame since she is the one who causes Macbeth to continuously kill in order to prove himself to her. Although the play is fast paced and the series of events that lead to Duncan 's death and Macbeth 's downfall happen quickly, we see the tremendous effect of Lady Macbeth on her husband. She is the one who convinced him to kill in order to become king. In one of her most famous speeches she asks the spirits to “fill” her “from the crown to the toe topful”(Act 1, Scene 5, Line 40); this foreshadows that she will use her sexual relationship with Macbeth to coerce him to become king by killing Duncan. It proves that she is willing to use her sexuality and Macbeth 's love for her in order to gain power for herself; therefore she is the dominant person of the relationship since