?Needles and pins, needles and pins, when a man marries his trouble begins?(Anon, Nursery Rhymes). Since time immemorial, overly ambitious women direct their husbands and induce them to downfall. For example, in literature, the protagonist of Madame Bovary, Emma, leads her husband to destruction through expenditure of his money so that he may advance himself in society. In William Shakespeare?s play, Macbeth, several incidents suggest Lady Macbeth?s dominance over her husband. Although it appears that he deserves full blame for the tragic flow of events, in reality fault lies on Lady Macbeth, for she masterfully manipulates her husband through humiliation, psychological games, and her appeal to his latent desires.
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