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What's Lady Macbeth's and Goneril & Regan's reactions to the powerful male in their respective plays?

LADY MACBETH= THE PLAY MACBETH

GONERIL & REGAN= KING LEAR


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: .... Lady MacBeth was truly the ambitious one. So the 'powerful male' in her life was just a pawn for her to achieve her political goals through Him.
She wanted her husband to be king, yes.... but that was outweighed by her desire to be Queen.
Remember, she's the one that suggest that Duncan be killed so that MacBeth could be King. She even came up with exactly how to do it. and then there's Banquo... and all the other people that got in the way lol.

as for King Lear, sorry i dont have an opinion. i read it once and was kinda bored with it.

*** perfect example of Lady MacBeth's personal ambitions, thru her husband: act i sc v, l 16-81
"... Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be what thou art promised. Yet i do fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it. What thou wouldst higly, thou wouldst holily; wouldsnt not play false, yet wouldst wrongly win. Thou'dst have great Glamis, that which cries "thus thou must do:, if thou have it; and that which rather thou dost fear to do than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither, that i may poor my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valour of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem to have thee crowned withal."
also, her following 'speech' in same act, l 39-45.
where she goes on to say... " The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements." ..... (read whole silloquy).

* her, 'powerful male' was no more than a catalyst for her own ambition.