How Is Lady Macbeth Selfish

And thence it is,/That I to your assistance do make love,/Masking the business from the common eye/For sundry weighty reasons”(3.1.121-129). This shows that Macbeth will kill his partner to stay king since Banquo thinks Macbeth is the murder of King Duncan. After he hears the answers from the witches, he decides to kill all of Macduff’s family because Macbeth thinks killing Macduff’s family would stand in line of his inheritance:”The castle of Macduff I will surprise,/Seize upon Fife, give to th' edge o' th' sword/His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls/That trace him in his line. No boasting like a fool./This deed I’ll do before this purpose cool./But no more sights!—Where are these gentlemen?/Come, bring me where they are”(4.1.157.163). Macbeth will orders the murders to kill anyone that can overtake his

Macbeth already had plans to murder Macduff after his encounter with the Witches (4.1.83), but Macduff's trip to England so antagonizes Macbeth that he orders the slaughter of Macduff's entire household, culminating in this horrifying scene.”(3.4.83). Macbeth has joy of the death of banquo but now that it wasn't fully successful, he’s doubting himself on his plan of killing the rest to become king. Also that he might get caught and be a failure. After he’s finished with talking to the murder he starts to have a vision of banquo's ghost. But only he can see him so he looks like he is crazy to the rest of his guests. “Please, just look over there. Look! Look! See! What do you have to

   In the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, the characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth decide, in a great fit of ambition, to kill King Duncan.  Later in the play we see the same two characters undergo a transformation in their personalities after murdering the King.  Macbeth begins the play as a noble soldier and gradually changes into an ambitious and murdering tyrant.  Lady Macbeth begins as a strong, ambitious woman who dominates her husband and gradually changes into a weak and guilt-ridden woman.  This essay will explore the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth before and after the murder of King Duncan.

Throughout the story the character’s change in many ways. Lady Macbeth, a main character comes out generous and strong then turns out corrupted. Lady Macbeth led her husband to major tragedies in the story. She turned into a complete different person by making wrong decisions. Lady Macbeth is a highly corrupted character because of her behavior, she is selfish, and can easily be blamed for Macbeth’s downfall.

Lady Macbeth had a very powerful hold over Macbeth. Just by questioning his valor she could shift Macbeth’s whole thought process and second-guessing of the murder of Duncan (Booth, 24), and he allows it because he cannot bear to disappoint her. His love for her and need for her approval is what ultimately leads him to commit each and every one of his crimes. She is the center of his world and if she does not see a problem in the murders than why should he. This is naïve ignorance caused by a blindness that is induced by love, and that is both heart breaking and tragic.

Shakespeare’s play ‘Macbeth’ is about the leading male protagonist succumbing to his ambition and need for power. Though Macbeth is liable for his own actions, he is not solely responsible for the events that eventually result in his downfall. Macbeth is corrupted by his wife, Lady Macbeth, as well as the three weird sisters. Macbeth’s contribution towards his downfall is his strong ambitious nature. Lady Macbeth is the person who induces Macbeth to assassinate King Duncan. The three weird sisters (witches) play with Macbeth’s ambitious nature and sense of security. Macbeth’s downfall is due to himself and two external factors.

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tragedy in which the main characters are obsessed by the desire for power. Macbeth’s aspiration for power blinds him to the ethical implications of his dreadful acts. The more that Shakespeare’s Macbeth represses his murderous feelings, the more he is haunted by them. By analyzing his hallucinations it is possible to trace his deteriorating mental state and the trajectory of his ultimate fall. Throughout the play Macbeth is never satisfied with himself. He feels the need to keep committing crime in order to keep what he wants most: his kingship. The harder Macbeth tries to change his fate the more he tends to run into his fate. His ambition and struggle for power was Macbeth’s tragic flaw in the play.

In the play, “Macbeth”, the character that stands out the most is Lady Macbeth. Her role in this story is significant, she is an evil, ruthless, and ambitious person. She is responsible for the murders that her husband commits because she was bloodthirsty for the crown. In fact, she then becomes more eager to get the crown than Macbeth himself and soon realizes that once you commit one violent act, there is almost no way of ever turning back. An analysis of Lady Macbeth reveals that she is a powerful character who adds complexity and depth to a play about murder, madness, and revenge.

Unfortunately for Lady Macbeth, her ambition wins out over playing house. Her strong willpower leads to an equally strong demise. In the sleepwalking scene, Lady Macbeth vigorously tries to clean her hands with bleach in the utility sink, and then the tap begins to run with blood (Collins 189). Not literally of course, but the audience sees this in order to see what is in Lady Macbeth's mind. She does not unravel easily, but when she does it is dramatic and sudden: "Lady Macbeth seems at first determined to pull herself together, but her control of her bodily coherence is short-lived" (Spolsky 493). She undergoes a descent into madness and eventual suicide. Arguably, these physical consequences can be viewed as "bodily signs of her corruption, and (self-)punishment for her transgressive, evil ways" (Thomas 81). Her influence upon her husband leads him to a tragic fate as well. He begins acting on his own, and arranges the murders of Banquo, as well as Macduff's family. The accumulation of these acts causes Macduff to kill Macbeth in an act of vengeance. The significance here is that this ending was caused by the initial act of

The actions of Lady Macbeth support the political theory of Thomas Hobbes because Lady Macbeth’s actions are driven by her selfishness. Throughout the book, Lady Macbeth is constantly striving to become queen. Since Macbeth sent her the letter that brought up the idea of becoming King, she has been “driven by a restless desire for power,” as Hobbes suggests in his philosophy. After Lady Macbeth receives Macbeth’s letter and is told that Duncan will be coming to their home tonight, she says, “Come, you spirits/

Macbeth has not failed to show how evil he can become. After he killed Duncan, his brain started to twist. His conscience soon began to distort so much, he planned the killing of Banquo. He killed his best friend over power and his title. “"All power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"--Lord Acton,” (Meyers) is the basis of this play.

In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, a world filled with love and hate arises. The bonding and breaking of family along with trust is what really takes over the play. With the rise of Macbeth becoming king due to him executing the old with his wife’s help, brings a whole world before unseen to the viewer's eye. Due to greed, ambition, and peer pressure, Macbeth soon met with his fate.

These witches tell the two soldiers their fate- “All hail, Macbeth! Hail thee, Thane of Glamis! /All hail, Macbeth! Hail thee, Thane of Cawdor! / All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter./” (Act. 1, scene 3, 51-53) The three witches then proclaim that all of Banquo’ sons will be kings. Macbeth is shocked by this and tells his crazy wife, Lady Macbeth. She has the idea of killing of the person that is king right now, King Duncan. Macbeth’s ambition for king and Lady Macbeth’s madness drives him to do this horrible deed and blame it on Duncan’s servants. After the killing, there are two sides to the story- the two people who conspired the murder, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. First, let's talk about Lady Macbeth. When hearing the news that the witches have told Macbeth that he will become king, she wants it to happen now. She wants to become queen now instead of waiting and letting fate take over- like the witches prophesied. When she decided that she wanted to take fate into her own hands, her life became a downward spiral from her guilty conscious. Throughout the first four acts, she is seen as this strong, stable character who is just power hungry. Then her guilty conscious took over. In Act 5, Scene One, she is seen sleepwalking and saying “who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?”, “What, will these hands ne’er be clean?”, and “Here’s the smell of the blood

When the witches foresaw Macbeth as king, Macbeth started to think if he was king and told his wife, Lady Macbeth. Many readers believed that Lady Macbeth was one of the driving forces of Macbeth’s destruction. However, Lady Macbeth was motivated as well due to the witches’ prophesy. In addition, Lady Macbeth aided Macbeth with the murder of King Duncan. Anyhow, Macbeth was the one who ordered Banquo, his son, and Macduff’s family to be put to death. Banquo was also a general and Macbeth’s friend. It was heartbreaking when this so-called friendship crumpled due to power hunger. Furthermore, it was disturbing when Macbeth ordered Macduff’s family to be executed. Macduff’s family did not directly provoke Macbeth but he eventually kills the entire family. Although the witches merely predicted the future, it was all of Macbeth’s actions that caused his downfall. In addition, it caused Lady Macbeth’s downfall as

From the first two act she was very pushy, persuasive, and optimistic even they were going through a difficult situation. But in this act she is very different and she has no control anymore over Macbeth. The reason is she’s only good at planning things, but when things don’t go well with her plans, she became anxious and lost control of things. Lady Macbeth’s feminine qualities becomes visible and she acts more as a lady where she only comfort Macbeth throughout the entire act three and telling him to sleep (rest; III.iv.ll.173). And especially Lady Macbeth only acquired masculine qualities like cruelty from the first act because she asked it from evil spirits, she is not a natural evil and in the end she can’t contain and maintain those dark qualities. Therefore for the conclusion: as the situation becomes out of control, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth changes their character throughout act three. Macbeth becomes more bold on his actions and not thinking twice about killing Banquo and Fleance. Unlike for Lady Macbeth she realized that out of all what they had done, they are still not happy and now living in anxious that one day a big karma will kill her and her