Lady Macbeth's Downfall

In the play The Tragedy of Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth was an important character. She was the wife of the King of Scotland. Lady Macbeth had first come off as a forceful character but as time passed, her weaknesses were shown.

Eventually, the crime begins to wear down Lady Macbeth and she slowly begins to lose her mind. Feelings of guilt and paranoia flood her thoughts even when she is asleep. Lady Macbeth is last seen sleepwalking through the castle and shouting nonsense. “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!--One: two: why, then, ‘tis time to do’t.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?--Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him” (Act V sc. i liness 39-44). Here the readers see how bad Lady Macbeth’s mental state has become as she tries to wash away an invisible stain of Duncan’s blood from her hands. By the end of the play, Lady Macbeth has confessed her role in the murder and she dies. “Of this dead butcher and his fiendlike queen, Who, as ’tis thought, by self and violent hands Took off her life…” (Act V sc. viii lines 69-71). From this quote, the readers learn that Lady Macbeth committed suicide, the guilt of the crime became her greatest weakness and she could no longer cope with the secret she had kept hidden. Lady Macbeth’s actions at the end of the play are quite ironic. In Act I, she was seen as strong and ruthless, but after Duncan is dead, she is the one who breaks down and becomes overwhelmed with remorse. Lady Macbeth was so blinded by her dreams of becoming queen

In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the main character, Macbeth, is a brave and loyal subject to the King of Scotland, but as the play progresses, his character begins to change drastically. Evil and unnatural powers, as well as his own passion to become king, take over his better half and eventually lead to his downfall. The three main factors that intertwine with one another that contribute to Macbeth’s tragic end are the prophecies told by the three witches, Lady Macbeth’s influence, and finally, Macbeth’s excessive passion and ambition which drove his desire to become king to the utmost extreme. The prophecy told by the three witches was what triggers the other factors that contribute to Macbeth s downfall. In the first act, the witches

Everyone wants to know the secret to life. There isn't just one lesson to learn to achieve success or failure. In fact, there are so many ways that people fail in life and many authors have written stories such as Macbeth, by Shakespeare, to understand how people fail. In the story of Macbeth, it was shown that Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, were selfish, wanted everything for themselves and were willing to do anything to get it. However, the most unsuccessful character in this story was Lady Macbeth. An examination of Lady Macbeth’s character suggests that people fail because of emotion, lack of conviction, and failure to acknowledge their mistakes.

After this the great changes in Macbeth as he makes his transition to the ruthless tyrant that he is at the end are more obvious. Shortly after the murder, Macbeth becomes a ruthless king, filled with great paranoia. Now he remembers the other part of the prophecy when the witches tell Banquo, “thou shalt get kings, though thou not be none…”(Act 1, Scene 3, Line 67-68). The new paranoid Macbeth decides that Banquo must be eliminated to preserve his own power and “royal” lineage. “Our fears in Banquo stick deep…to make them Kings, the seeds of Banqou Kings! Rather then though so, come, fate into the list, and champion me to th’utterance! (Act 3, Scene 1, Line 49-72) The difference between the ways he dealt with this incident and the way he dealt with Duncan is that this time his decision is quick, no longer second guessing his decision or showing any signs of guilt, even though now he is killing his best friend. Macbeth does not consult his plans with Lady Macbeth either; whose torment has taken her down the path of insanity, and subsequently suicide. Murder has now become his nature, his empathy engulfed by his evil ambitions. “Oh full of scorpions in my mind dear wife!”(Act 3, Scene 2, Line 36). This is the last time in the play that any remnants of guilt are seen in Macbeth, his guilt presents as another hallucination, this time of Banquo’s bloody ghost. It is this final presence of guilt in this part of the plot

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Lady Macbeth’s desire and ambition leads to her eventual downfall. When Lady Macbeth hears of Macbeth’s prophecy she dreams of the glory and high-standing that awaits being queen. She cannot withhold her ambitions and she is willing to manipulate fate to bring about Macbeth’s prophecy. She invokes evil spirits to be filled from head to toe with cruelty to do the evil actions necessary to make Macbeth king and to remove all remorse and pity for her action from her heart. She is initially able to be involved in the treacherous deeds that are needed to bring about the prophecy quickly, but as the play progresses the weight of the merciless deeds fill her with remorse. The remorse and pain she feels for her wicked

In William Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy, Macbeth, the selfish ambition of protagonists Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, result in both being seen as the driving force of the play. Though it may seem that Macbeth’s ambition is greater than his wife’s since he had committed murder, Lady Macbeth encouraged her husband to perform the wicked acts by challenging his manhood, and as a result, fulfilling her greedy desires. Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are blinded by their selfish ambition and are eager to own the ultimate titles of King and Queen of Scotland.

This angers Macbeth and enables him to follow Lady Macbeth's scheme to kill the King easier. Macbeth's first murder is definitely a trying experience for him. However, as the play progresses, killing seems easy and the only solution to maintain his reign of the people of Scotland. Macbeth becomes increasingly ambitious as the play goes on. The witches prophecies and Lady Macbeth's influence intensifies his ambition and drives Macbeth to obtain and maintain his title of Scotland by whatever means, even murdering his best friend, Banquo. "Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, ...no son of mine succeeding. If't be so, for Banquo's issue have I filed my mind; For them the gracious Duncan I have murder'd; ...To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings! (Act III. sc.I) At this point Macbeth's passion becomes more and more extreme to the point where no one stands in his way. His greed, violence, and hunger for power drastically declines his character. The witches prophecy, Lady Macbeth's influence, and Macbeth's own ambition all contribute greatly to his deterioration of character which results in his downfall, which was death. All the causes link to one another. If it wasn't for Macbeth's strong will and passion, Macbeth would still be his ordinary self. Because of this, Macbeth's curiosity of possibly becoming king was brought out which led to Lady Macbeth's controlling influence. Macbeth's ambition then builds and causes him to commit a

When people carelessly and blatantly make a choice in which they forget their beliefs, in order to attain a goal, they are punished for their selfish actions. Lady Macbeth would have done anything in order to get what she desired. She proved she was very manipulative and calculating during the plan to murder the king. Lady Macbeth made Macbeth feel less of a man and viewed him as a coward because he showed hesitation in carrying out their plan of murder. Lady Macbeth convinced him to move forward with the murder on the night of the feast despite his reluctance and belief that it was not the right time to execute the murderous plot.

Lady Macbeth from Shakespeare’s play Macbeth is introduced as an incredulously ambitious woman who will do whatever it takes to seize the crown for Macbeth. However, towards the end of the play she begins to feel guilty as well as paranoid as a result from her ambitious actions. For example, at the beginning of the play she lets ambition lead her actions and delves into supernatural powers to make herself cruel as well as without remorse when preparing for the murder of King Duncan: “Come you spirits … /Of direst cruelty/Make thick my blood/stop up the access and passage to remorse,”(I, v, 41-46). Lady Macbeth is aware of her morality in the beginning and understands that in order to complete this sinful deed, she must rid herself from feeling guilt. Her actions of calling upon evil spirits shows her brutality and determination of achieving more power even if it does corrupt her morality and mental state in the future. The ambition and desire for power she carries in the

Although she appears in a relatively small portion of Macbeth compared to her husband, the titular character, Lady Macbeth is one of the most captivating and influential characters within the play. In the play Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare in the early 17th Century, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth plot to murder the King of Scotland in order to take power for themselves. Lady Macbeth plays a key role as the instigator of this plot and intervenes in Macbeth’s actions several times in order to maintain the plot’s success. Lady Macbeth’s status as a woman combined with her great ambition provides great complexity to her character and makes her extremely interesting. The great change in character that Lady Macbeth experiences through the course

Macbeth is a tragedy play written by William Shakespeare in 1606 and published in 1623. Shakespeare created this play during the Elizabethan era and was highly influenced by ‘The Great Chain of Being’, which was the social structure of the time. This play revolves around a noble that soon changes after he encounters three witches on his way home from a battle and they tell him of three prophecies, which sparked his interest and causes worry when they start coming true. These prophecies start to occupy his mind and causes his ambition to increase drastically. This new character, not only starts to harm himself, but also his country, Scotland, and his relationship with his wife, Lady Macbeth.

William Shakespeare's Macbeth has been a theatrical favorite since Elizabethan times. Its timeless themes of ambition, fate, violence, and insanity collaborate to produce a captivating plot. The audience traces the disintegration of a tragic hero and his willful wife. Lady Macbeth, one of Shakespeare's most forcefully drawn female characters, plays an important role in the play Macbeth. She has a profound influence over the action of the play, and her character accentuates many of the themes. It seems evident that Lady Macbeth is motivated by repressed emotional complexes which lead to her insanity.

Many of people have heard the tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare. The story revolves on a sequence of misfortunate events that take place when Macbeth makes immoral decisions to be king. In the play, Shakespeare shows how power can cause corruption in a human’s brain. Macbeth himself was not a very confident person, though he had a kind soul to begin with, he was easily influenced and gullible. Through the prophecies of the evil beings, an insignificant seed was planted in Macbeth. That spark of wealth and fortune caused the tyrant within him to awake. Which eventually lead to his fatal death. His ambition lead him to murder, go insane and become very superstitious.

In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, Macbeth, a once honored and valiant Thane, abandons all virtue after three meddling witches prophesize his ascent to the Scottish throne. Consumed by his ambition and encouraged by his malevolent wife, Macbeth sets forth on a downward spiral of murderous treason and tyranny that subsequently leads to his own demise. This Shakespearean tragedy explores betrayal, manipulation and the blood lust that adjoins a relentless climb for power. Hovering behind the narrative are various supernatural forces and visions that seem to be present during each terrible act. Subsequently, a question prevails whether Macbeth’s downfall is result of his own flaw or if these forces possess a vice-like hold over