How Is Lady Macbeth Unwillful

Lady Macbeth is a manipulative wife that does not consider anyone’s feelings and that likes to do things herself with no help from others. If Lady Macbeth had not deluded him into doing things he did not want to do, Macbeth would have been completely different. She convinced him to assassinate Duncan, which stained his mind and made him become a tyrant. This also led up to all the other murders hat Macbeth was responsible for. Lady Macbeth also very independent; she

Macbeth is confused as he is arguing with himself on what he should do. He states reasons not to kill Duncan, because Macbeth is his noble kinsmen and the act would bring dishonor. However, he also states reason why he should kill him, because Macbeth will then become king and fulfill the witches ' fortune. Lady Macbeth, who appears in the beginning as the driving force for the murder of King Duncan, also develops internal conflict. At first, Lady Macbeth seems to be a woman of extreme confidence and will. But, as situations become more and more unstable in the play, guilt develops inside her. For instance, she exclaims; "Wash your hands. Put on your nightgown. / Look not so pale. I tell you again, Banquo 's / Burried; he cannot come out on 's grave" (Shakespeare V, ii, 65-67). Lady Macbeth sleepwalks and frets about her evil wrongdoings because she is extremely guilty of her influence on Macbeth to commit the murder. Lady Macbeth reacts emotionally and dwells on her actions as guilt eats at her soul.

Lady Macbeth’s strength of will persists through the murder of King Duncan as it is she who tries to calm Macbeth after committing the crime by declaring confidently that, “a little water clears us of this deed,” (2.2.67). Afterward, however, Lady Macbeth’s strong and ambitious character begins to deteriorate into madness. Her first sign of weakness occurred when she confessed that she could not have killed the king, revealing a natural woman’s feelings, “had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t” (2.2.13-14). Just as ambition has affected her before more so then Macbeth before the crime, the guilt plagues her now more effectively afterward as she desperately tried to wash away the invisible blood from her sin, “Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfume of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand,” (5.1.48-49). Lady Macbeth’s

Lady Macbeth has the power over her husband to persuade him into doing anything she requests. She manipulates Macbeth with incredible efficiency by overruling all of his thoughts and changing his perspective on the present. Even though the many tasks that need to be completed are difficult to understand why they need to be done, Lady Macbeth will always convince Macbeth to do it. Her husband often tells her that she has a “masculine soul” which is obvious due to her murderous and envious actions. When the time came to kill king Duncan, Macbeth believes that his wife has gone insane and tells her that the crime they were about to commit was a horrible idea. As a result of his questioning, Lady Macbeth says that executing the crime will show his loyalty to her. On the night of the assassination Lady Macbeth watched the guards of the castle become drunk and unaware of what was going on. Lady Macbeth sent her husband into the castle to kill King Duncan. The married couple fled the scene leaving the guards covered in the evidence. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are stained with the blood of their victims and the feeling of guilt in their stomach.

     Lady Macbeth progresses throughout the play from a seemingly savage and heartless creature to a very delicate and fragile woman. In the beginning of the play, she is very ambitious and hungry for power. She pushes Macbeth to kill Duncan in order to fulfill the witches’ prophecy. In Act I, Scene 6, she asks the gods to make her emotionally strong like a man in order to help her husband go through with the murder plot. She says, “Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty!” Also, she does everything in her power to convince Macbeth that he would be wrong not to kill Duncan. In Act I,

The play Macbeth claims ”Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”(5.1.36) “What, Will these hands ne’er be clean?”(5.1.45) Lady Macbeth goes around acting like nothing is wrong and that somebody else had killed King Duncan. When the maids found her sleepwalking it looked like she was suspicious because she then started talking about how somebody had put blood on her hands and she couldn't get the blood off. She was not really talking about it telling other people that she was very shocked about Duncan's death on top of that she wanted to know more about who they thought was guilty when she knew she was the one who is guilty. In Macbeth Seyton, “The queen, my lord, is dead.”(5.5.16) Lady Macbeth couldn't take it anymore so she decided to kill herself. She couldn't take the fact that she had killed somebody. She couldn't handle the fact that her husband started become a murderer and they all did this just to become the king and queen. Macbeth knew how to handle his mistakes but Lady Macbeth just gave up because she didn't know how to accept her own fate. She also had to accept the fact that she was lying to herself and lying to everybody else just because of the one thing that she did. Life isn't always going to go the way somebody wants it to go and in Lady Macbeth case she couldn't take the guilt from King Duncan's death. She couldn't take the guilt that nothing could be the same after what she tricked MacBeth into doing. Lady Macbeth was in total control of her husband by making him feel worthless. For someone to learn from their mistakes they must own what they did wrong, Lady Macbeth was ignoring the truth that the king was dead because of her. Lady Macbeth failed because of she would not take ownership of what she had done to the land of

While Macbeth is hesitant before and during the process of murdering Duncan, Lady Macbeth remains persistent and encourages Macbeth to “only look up clear. To alter favour ever is to fear.” (1.5.78-79). She then proceeds to say, “Leave all the rest to me.” (1.5.80). Before Lady Macbeth is aware of Macbeth’s prophecy, she is considered a pure, honest and a genuine woman. But after Macbeth shares his future, Lady Macbeth develops a greedy aspiration for being crowned Queen. In order for her dream to come true, Lady Macbeth forces her husband to carry out King Duncan’s murder by saying, hypothetically if she had made a promise with Macbeth, even if it was to kill her own child by “dash(ing) the brains out…” (1.7.62-64), she would not withdraw her promise. It is evident at this point the extreme measures Lady Macbeth is willing to pursue in order to fulfill her own selfish ambition. Lady Macbeth’s honest and pure personality transforms her into a selfish, highly driven and manipulative woman. Like Macbeth, Lady Macbeth struggles to deal with the guilt she experiences as a result of her actions, yet she is unable to disguise her guilt with selfish ambition. Her mental stability begins to diminish, which is particularly evident in Act 5. Her guilt becomes noticeable when she begins sleepwalking and sleep talking about

Lady Macbeth is an ambitious and determined woman. Unlike her husband, Macbeth, she lacks just about all traces of humanity. She is seen as heartless and cunning, as well as very persuasive. The art of turning tables is nothing compared to her work.

Women can be as ambitious and cruel as men, yet social constraints denied them the means to chase these ambitions on their own. Shakespeare, however, appeared to have used Lady Macbeth, and the witches, to weaken Macbeth’s idea that “undaunted mettle should compose / Nothing but males (Act I. sn. VII ln..73–74).” Lady Macbeth’s sweltering ambition to be queen was the target source of motivation that willingly kept her drawn to committing such atrocities. She persistently taunted her husband for miniscule amount of courage he possessed, even though we were aware of his bloody deeds on the battlefield; this exemplified her lack of remorse.

Lady Macbeth, as opposed to many of the other characters in the play, has a very clear character and personality. She is unmistakably power-hungry, and she does whatever it takes to seize that power. She manipulates her husband and those around her, all while acting perfectly proper and innocent. She is a truly evil character compared to the rest of the people in the play. However, her wickedness is also her downfall, as she goes crazy in the last act and dies, likely from suicide.

In the play Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare he tells the story of Macbeth and his wife Lady Macbeth, and how they plan to murder King Duncan. Macbeth is full of powerful female characters who desired for power. Throughout the play, Lady Macbeth allows her personal ambitions and emotions to influence her decisions and the people around her which results in her downfall. Firstly, Lady Macbeth shows that she can be ambitious and persuasive.

Lady Macbeth associates her womanhood with being unable to commit the murder. When Lady Macbeth cannot murder Duncan himself, she manipulates Macbeth to fulfill her scheme by comparing violence to masculinity. Upon killing King Duncan, Macbeth feels regret. Macbeth reveals a change in character. Macbeth’s first experience with taking a man’s life is trying.

Lady Macbeth is a very significant figure in Macbeth who challenges her gender roles. As we read the play, Lady Macbeth’s influence on her husband at the beginning a very strong, and even though we do see her fade out towards the end. The prominence of the decisions she made, that would later become the actions of Macbeth, were important to the events of the play. Therefore, she challenges gender roles emotionally and

Lady Macbeth is a deceitful and complex character. Throughout the court of the novel, she manipulates her husband, Macbeth, to commit his first murder on the king in order for him to ultimately achieve what she thinks he deserves. Lady Macbeth is portrayed to the audience as a loyal wife who wants the best for her husband, Macbeth, but as the same time is portrayed as a malicious character from the very beginning of the play. The line that there is between and evil human and a scheming witch is so close together, that Lady Macbeth could be easily seen as either of the two.

The irony of Lady Macbeth’s words is shown in Act 5 Scene 1, where she speaks, “The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now? What, will these hands ne’er be clean? No more o’ that, my lord, no more o’ that” (Macbeth 163). Lady Macbeth is starting to lose her sanity, visioning the sight of blood stuck on her hand (which is ironic because she said earlier that a little water would easily wash it off) and no matter how much she washes it, it is not coming off. She also mentions that she does not want more bad deeds put upon her shoulders and wants for Macbeth to stop his violent actions. On the other hand, Macbeth is doing everything to keep himself and the crown safe and secure. Due to both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s contrasting characteristics, conflicting motivations occur. Those of which help develop Macbeth as a tragic hero.