The Innocent Flower and The Serpent Under It: The Shifting Psyches of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth

In order for a relationship to survive, the two people in the relationship must be balanced, but if one exercises power over the other, that relationship will fail. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, when Mrs. Macbeth manipulated her husband and regained balance by killing King King of Scotland, the marriage of Macbeth and Mrs. Macbeth was greatly damaged. "Macbeth, usually in 1606, is a story of a Scottish aristocrat related to Scottish king William, trying to kill the king" (Gerwirtz 10).

King Duncan will be invited to Macbeth 's castle and will be killed there. Mrs Macbeth encouraged Macbeth "like an innocent flower, but it is a snake under it" (I, v). Mrs Macbeth wants Macbeth to behave as usual, satisfied with the king's visit and put his malicious plan into his head. Macbeth still has a reservation, but Mrs Macbeth prepared for evil behavior, and his idea began to be embarrassed. Macbeth was showing signs of insanity when walking along a dagger until King Duncan's bedroom. "This is a dagger seen in my eyes, let me catch it." (II, i) And King Duncan ended up as King of Scotland. Macbeth told Mrs. Macbeth 'the action was completed'. (II, ii)

Snakes generally represent evil (biblical snakes), but in Macbeth they see the witches using snakes. I also found that Mrs. Macbeth had associated snakes and snakes sworn in Macbeth. It looked like an innocent flower, but it was not a snake (1.5.74-5). In other words, she told him that it looks innocent outside, but it is evil like a snake inside.

Macbeth 's main symbols, owls, sleeping, night / black and snakes in several plays explain the meaning of each symbol (interpretation of symbols) reference text (support)

Mrs. Macbeth 's words "It looks like an innocent flower, but not a snake" is easily interpreted as a hint to the Bible. Herbert R. Coursen Jr. said the garden snake saw Satan trying to eat fruit on Eve (37). In this case, Mrs Macbeth is a snake, Macbeth is the night before, and the Scottish throne is a fruit. Mrs Macbeth persuaded him to take fruit or throne as the king would give him strength and wealth. As Adam and Eve fulfilled their promises of good and evil, Macbeth also achieved his goal. However, as the fruits of his work rotten, he lost good, lost some of reason, his wife, and eventually lost his life. The idea of ​​being a king is very attractive, but it is not the case.