Lady Macbeth Evil

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

On the contrary, Lady Macbeth begins as a ruthless woman. She has a manipulative and controlling character, convincing Macbeth to kill King Duncan; she will do anything to gain power. When she says, “How tender ‘tis to love the babe…I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out” (I.vii. 55-58), she shows her ruthlessness and her “bad” ambition. In her “role reversal” with Macbeth, she gains somewhat of a conscience and realizes her guilt. When she tells him, “You must leave this” (III. ii. 35), she wants Macbeth to forget about his plan to murder Banquo’s family. She is very hesitant about committing another murder and does not want Macbeth to follow through with his plan.

She thinks Macbeth is a coward, she feels Macbeth can’t do anything just like a baby. “Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures. ‘Tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I’ll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt”(2.2 line 52-57). Lady Macbeth just wants power, she doesn’t care about killing other people at all, she’s cold-hearted and crazy, she would do anything to get power. However, after she feels like she’ll lose all of her power, she goes crazy. ”Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand” (5.1 line 49-50). When she thinks about losing her power, she went crazy, she’s afraid of losing her power and afraid of what would happen to her, she made her own

After the murder she continues to persuade Macbeth by telling him “These deeds must not be thought after these ways: so, it will make us mad”, suggesting that if they don’t think about the murder then they can pretend it never happened.

In Shakespeare play, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth’s character progresses in an interesting manner. Lady Macbeth is made to act as an incentive to Macbeth's immoral actions. Even though Macbeth is generally the person to have a final say before killing someone, Lady Macbeth plays the role of his “sidekick”. She mocks her husband if he worries over a sinful deed (which usually she instructs him to do), saying he would be less of a man if he does not follow through with their plan (I. vii. 56-57). She gives Macbeth a short lecture in deceptiveness when they are planning to kill King Duncan (I. vi. 73-78). She also prepared the daggers for Macbeth to kill Duncan in advance (II. ii. 15-16). Although her husband was still having doubts, she was always ready to go in for the kill. She did not think twice about it or feel any remorse. This shows that Lady Macbeth evolved into looking like a humble and quieter person on the exterior, but being an insane woman and criminal due to the events that have affected her.

Not feeling any remorse, she is able to skillfully let go of guilt and skillfully get rid of evidence. As Macbeth comes back to her after the deed is complete he is very shaken up and extremely paranoid that someone saw him with the bloody daggers. Lady Macbeth tells him, “These deeds must not be thought after these ways; so it will make us mad” (2.2.34). By saying this she believes that you shouldn’t feel guilty about doing evil, you should just get it done and move on because thinking about it will only drive you crazy. Also she thinks when commiting violent acts such as murder make sure to get rid of any evidence that will lead people to believe you are a suspect. Frustrated and upset that her husband came home bathed in blood and the daggers in his hand she states, “Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers.”(2.2.52-53). She is extremely disappointed in Macbeth for being so careless and cannot believe that he did not go through the well thought out plan smoothly. In her eyes he is still a coward and does not know how to behave calmy when feeling guilty.

Lady Macbeth manipulates her husband into doing all that she wants to do, that she cannot do herself. When Lady Macbeth consults with Macbeth the witches prophecies she insinuates and awakens an evil ambitious side in him. This is very strange to see as in the beginning of the play (Act 1) Macbeth is the complete opposite. Lady Macbeth does this in such a devious way that she questions her husband 's masculinity. For instance; "What beasts wasn 't then,/ that made you break this enterprise to me?/ When you durst do it,/ then you were a man,/ And to be more than what you were,/ you would be so much more the man." (1.7.53-58). This strikes Macbeth as the unthinkable because as a woman in the Elizabethan Times (1603) Lady

In Acts I and II, Lady Macbeth’s actions portray her to be more evil compared to Macbeth because she is ambitious and insane. When Macbeth starts to hesitate about their plan to murder Duncan, Lady Macbeth starts to ridicule him about having second thoughts. Impatiently, she probes at Macbeth’s desire to become king and asks if he will “live a coward in thine own esteem, letting ‘I dare not’ wait upon ‘I would’” (Act 1.7, L 43). In Act I, Lady Macbeth’s character illustrates her to be more ambitious than Macbeth.

The women in Macbeth, namely Lady Macbeth, contradict these expectations through their commanding, and ambitious tones. During that second half of act one Lady Macbeth is portrayed as the ruling figure in the house. Instead of being a grateful and fulfilling housewife she instead pushes and commands Macbeth to commit assassination. She berates him when he falters and asked if he would rather, “live like a coward in thine own esteem.” (Shakespeare)

In Macbeth they have major characters that made his mind believe that it’s possible to become a king with greatness and honor. However Lady Macbeth believes that Macbeth is a coward and will never do anything he says and she knows if she sabotages him to do evil. Telling him that he can become a man if he kills the king Duncan to prove to Lady Macbeth that he will do anything for her, but she don’t give a care about him and manage to say that her husband is crazy or is mentally ill to notify the people that he is fit to be the king he just had a lack of sleep. She didn’t want to kill Duncan because he looked like her father and she knew she killed her father, but she told him to kill the knight after she drunk them up.

The story of Macbeth is mainly about Macbeth’s ambitions for power, and what he will do to achieve that. During the beginning of Macbeth, he had a conscience of what was right and what was wrong. But, with the help of his wife and the witches telling him that he will become kind, he becomes a monster that commits horrible acts. He has the ambitions to become kind, but that doesn’t indeed make him evil, the acts he commits makes him evil. He tried to explain his actions in Act 1, scene 1, by saying ‘’Fair is foul, and foul is fair,’’ He doesn’t know if his actions are right or wrong at that moment.

Lady Macbeth demonstrates characteristics of a temptress, as well as a ruthless and degrading women. Lady Macbeth begins to exhibit qualities of a temptress as she convinces her husband, Macbeth, to do what she wants. For example, Macbeth wishes to be king yet does not want to commit regicide in order to obtain the position, so Lady Macbeth asks, “As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that which thou esteem’st the ornament of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem, letting ‘I dare not’ wait upon ‘I would’ (Shakespeare I.vii.41-44).

In spite of the view of some critics that Lady Macbeth is the evil force behind Macbeth, she seems to epitomize the sixteenth century belief that women are passive, men are active. Lady Macbeth threats of violence are empty fantasies. Klein also underlines that the virtues which Lady Macbeth sees as defects in Macbeth character are in fact the better parts of her own being. She says that she fears Macbeth's nature, because "It is too fullo`th`milk of human kindness" (1.5.15), but the reader has never seen Macbeth "kind". On contrary Irene Dash mentions that Kenneth Muir concludes in his introduction to the Arden edition that Lady Macbeth deliberately chooses evil and her choice is more deliberate than her husband`s.

In public, she is able to hide her true feelings in a perfect manner: Duncan’s words for her are “honored hostess” and a “fair and noble hostess” (Shakespeare, Act I, Scene VI, 1, 24). After the crime is perpetrated, she pretends as though she has lost her conscience but the reader may immediately know that this is part of her plan so that no one suspects her or Macbeth of being the murderers. All of these qualities indicate how manipulative she

Shakespeare's play Macbeth shows the roots of all evil, our own human nature. The play is centered on the coexistence of good and evil. Macbeth, unlike any other Shakespeare play has the protagonist convert to evil. In the beginning of the play, Macbeth is shown as a hero in the Scottish army, that is ironic because Macbeth defeats a traitor and he himself becomes one later. Macbeth knows his place in the world. He is fully capable of distinguishing between right and wrong. Macbeth purposely disregards his own moral judgment to rise to power which is again ironic and goes against his own beliefs. Macbeth stands as a symbol for Satan's sin of ambition. Like Satan, Macbeth's thirst for power and ambition drives him to commit evil.Contrary to