Lady Macbeth's Change

When Macbeth becomes King the evil side of his nature takes over completely. He becomes a butcher and tyrant without any feeling of remorse. Before, he had to be persuaded by his wife to kill. Now, once a King, he doesn’t even bother to tell her of his plans, like the murder of Banquo. He doesn’t need his wife’s support anymore; he has the power and therefore now controls the relationship. The relationship cools down. Lady Macbeth doesn’t have the same effect over Macbeth as before. She is left over. In Act V we see clearly what happened to Lady Macbeth. She is now the person who broods about the dreadful things they have done, “A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!” (Doctor, V, i, 8-10). She is frightened of the dark; “She has light by her continually.” (Gentlewoman, V, i, 21-22). She walks in her sleep and washes her hands all the time to get rid of the blood, “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, to be corrupt is, “to become tainted or rotten [or] to become morally debased.” In the play, Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Macbeth begins the play as the Thane of Glamis and a brave warrior in the battle. As he obtains the position of Thane of Cawdor, he beings to change for the worse. Macbeth changes over the course of the play because he believes that he is becoming more independent and stronger, but in reality, he is actually becoming weaker, more insane, and corrupt.

   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.

Lady Macbeth is seen as evil pious jealous and empowering who lusts for her and her husband’s position. This is visible in the following quote when speaking to Macbeth “look like the innocent flower but be the serpent underneath” this basically shows how not only is lady Macbeth tormenting Macbeth but Macbeth is feeling a sense of empowerment by his own wife and feels as if he is being humiliated by her controlling self. The technique portrayed in this quote is a simile in which lady Macbeth is comparing Macbeth to a serpent when she’s telling him to look and act innocent in front of the king despite the vile feelings he really has towards him. This is also shown through the following line quoted by lady Macbeth “unsex me here “giving that lady Macbeth is portrayed as masculine ad unnatural. It seems pretty clear that she is speaking to the spirits telling them to unsex her which basically means to make her into something other than a woman as she keeps in her mind that giving birth and nurturing a child interferes with her evil plans. Therefore, lady Macbeth doesn’t change as much in this play as Macbeth does.

     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,

However once they accomplish the deed, the torment that the guilt brings is too much for Macbeth but he gets used to the evil of killing people meanwhile the opposite happens to Lady Macbeth who becomes paranoid about killing Duncan. Shakespeare presents the play in such a way that the audience sees how more and more their relationship changes dramatically as a result of how they each handle their emotions following the murder of King Duncan. Although Macbeth was weak at first, it was the strong Lady Macbeth who helped him through the first murder, but in sacrifice to controlling Macbeth and his conscience, she lost control of her own and consequently became insane and committed suicide. Lady Macbeth repeatedly convinced her husband by questioning his manhood “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” (Shakespeare 1.7.54-56). She is a strong, powerful character in comparison to her easily influenced husband, until towards the end of the play where he seems to take on her role.

In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare one of the main characters named Lady Macbeth changes dramatically during the play. Lady Macbeth is the wife of Macbeth whose prophesy was to become king of Scotland. Excited Lady Macbeth will stop at nothing to make her husband stand in what she thinks is his rightful position. At the starting point of the play Lady Macbeth has determination and cruelty, but at the end of the play she becomes depressed and anxious.

Absolute power is a perilous crown that bestows on people when they strive for ambition and like a leech it sucks them into a treacherous path, it inebriates their quench, it makes them malicious, and eventually, it corrupts them. The valiant Macbeth is a noble, courageous soldier who fought during a battle where his country Scotland needed him. He soon crosses paths with three witches which they prophesied his ascension to the throne. Blinded by his ambition, he turns to murder to secure his throne. Consequently, his actions soon affected his fate and his wife Lady Macbeth. Over the course of the play, power causes Lady Macbeth to change from ambitious to resentful which leads to her ultimate demise.

At the beginning Macbeth didn't want to hurt anyone, but in the middle of the play his wife Lady Macbeth had wanted to be queen so she had convinced Macbeth to kill King Duncan. He was going to go through with the plan but she made it to where he was convinced even more. The downfall was that he had been under her control so much that Macbeth had not only killed King Duncan he had also kill seven other people that had been in his way of the King. And the full change of Macbeth was that he had once been a nice man and then he had been changed into a killer just because his wife wanted to be queen. I believe that If Lady Macbeth didn't get full control over Macbeth he would still be a nice man who doesn't want to hurt anyone and if he did he

In the play Macbeth changes a lot in the story, although there was a lot to influence him to change. In the play Macbeth used to respect his king and be very loyal to him. As the story goes on he meets different people who make him think different. His first encounter with the witches made him more ambitious but he struggled to kill the king. Lady Macbeth also played a big part in changing him by telling him many times that he was still a boy and will never be a man. She convinces him to kill the king and commit the first of his evil deeds. After killing the king he is very paranoid and gets hallucinations and can't sleep. His idea of becoming a man was insane and inhuman. He feels

In Macbeth by William Shakespeare, there is a great amount of disorder due to one character’s ambitions. Macbeth is this character, and he lets his want for the throne take over him, leaving a trail of blood behind him. Macbeth’s character changes drastically from the beginning, to the end due to his ambition taking over him, giving the story a plot and much character interaction.

The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare explains how a person can show their true character upon their goal. In this story there is a nobleman named Macbeth that seeks for thriving kingship ever since he got manipulated and mind washed . Macbeth’s decision was to listen to the prophecies of the witches to become king. Doing so changed Macbeth's personality and way of thought, leading him to make inferior decisions to stay as king and showing how someone's objective can lead to life changing conclusions.

In the beginning of the play, Macbeth is seen as a kind, loyal and heroic character but towards the end of the play he is seen as an evil “dictator”. Macbeth has personally changed throughout the entire play, mainly because of the persuasion and influence from the Witches and Lady Macbeth.

In William Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth goes through some major character changes. After hearing the news about the witches’ prophecies, she can’t wait for Macbeth to take the throne and she is so eager for the king’s death that she manipulates Macbeth into doing it. After the death of Duncan, Lady Macbeth does not appear in many other significant ways, this is where her change begins to show. Lady Macbeth is first introduced into the play as a dark, evil, and manipulative character; but, as the play progresses, she begins to change into a deceiving and passive character. At the end of the play, she is characterized for the last time when she takes her life because of her guilt.

Macbeth and lady macbeth both change throughout the course of the play. At the beginning of the play macbeth is is a respected man who is loyal to the king. Later after he meets the three witches he changes because of the prophecy that the witches tell him about. He is to kill the king be then he he whimps out so lady macbeth kills the king. Because of macbeth whimping out is now feels guilt. By the end of the play he has become evil and is destined for the power. He is then killed at the end of the play. Lady macbeth at the beginning she is evil, cruel, heartless, and a cold dark woman. However towards the end of the