Was the hope drunk,
Wherein you dress’d yourself? hath it slept since,
And wakes it now, to look so green and pale
At what it did so freely? From this time
Such I account thy love.
– William Shakespeare
Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 7. Lady Macbeth counterattacks after her husband refuses to carry out the plan to kill the King. Using a clothing metaphor and personification, she asks if his earlier hope was drunk when he dressed himself in it. Lady Macbeth proves to be even more ambitious than Macbeth for him to be king. She employs emotional blackmail when she equates the level of her love for him to his commitment to killing Duncan.