The Change In Macbeth And Lady Macbeth's Wickedness

   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 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.

"This dead butcher and his fiend like queen"(V.viii.80) is the way Malcolm describes Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.  The characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth changed considerably during the course of the play, Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare.  In the beginning of the play, Macbeth is seen as a courageous soldier who is loyal to the King.  As the play progresses, Macbeth is corrupted by the witches’ prophecies and by his and Lady Macbeth’s ambition. Because of the weakness of Macbeth’s character and the strength of Lady Macbeth’s character, Lady Macbeth is able to easily influence him.  Lady Macbeth pushes Macbeth toward evil at first, but after he realizes what he has done, it is his decision to

In the early stages of the play, the Macbeths seem to be a devoted couple. Their love and concern for each other remains strong and constant throughout the play, but their relationship changes dramatically following the ruthless killing of King Duncan in Act II.

How the Relationship Between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth Changes and Develops During the Course of the Play

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as they both in turn take on the role of the

Macbeth thought it was a joke; however, when the first prophecy came true, his heart is shaken by desires. At this moment the imagination of himself wearing the crown, and besides is the blood that he must stain in his hand or else he could no longer clutch it. This imagination has ignited the scintilla of guilt thoughts deep in his heart. No wonder before he would hesitates, "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me/ Without my stir" (i, iii, 147-148), but currently, his eyes only stares at the "resplendent prize" and forgets all the goodness from King Duncan (Rolfe). While Macbeth stick his first foot on the swamp of curses, Lady Macbeth puts his other foot in. Hence, Macbeth could never return to a dedicator, who fights for his beloved king, but now he fights for his own desire. Lady Macbeth lured, "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" (i, v, 37-40). She have overcame Macbeth's uncertainty by her clear willing to murder King Duncan and seize the throne, and her speech showed the real

The relationship among Macbeth and Lady Macbeth alters throughout the play Macbeth as they both in turn take on the role of the more dominant character. Their attitude to each other constantly changes throughout the play, although events in the play certainly draw Macbeth and Lady Macbeth apart their love for one another is evident throughout the play. Macbeth shows his love by saying a few compassionate words in his letter to Lady Macbeth about the meeting with the three weird sisters. Lady Macbeth shows that she cares for him by planning the murder of King Duncan so Macbeth can become king. By the end of the play Macbeth doesn’t care about his wife’s health that much, when she dies his taught was she was bound to die one day.

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have changed drastically throughout the play. One goes from evil to scared and the other goes from scared to evil. You can see the change between these characters obviously by their actions. Lady Macbeth turned murderous after hearing the prophecy that Macbeth would be king from the witches. Lady Macbeth was a strong force leading to Macbeth’s killing of Duncan.

That night Macbeth ends up killing Duncan. Just before the murder Macbeth is walking down the hall when he has a vision of a dagger with a bloody tip, which is pointed for Duncan’s room. He thinks to himself, “Art tho not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation” (II.1.36-38). During the murder Macbeth makes a mistake that angers Lady Macbeth. He has forgotten to leave the daggers with Duncan’s guards, and she must now go and return them. Initially Macbeth is upset over the murder, but Lady Macbeth tells him it is as easy to forget about as washing the blood away with water. This first murder shows the strong character of Lady Macbeth and the influence she has over her husband.

In “Macbeth” written by Shakespeare Lady Macbeth wants Macbeth to kill King Duncan so he can become king, and her queen. Ambitious and cunning she convinces Macbeth to go along with her plan to murder Duncan. Lady Macbeth shows her desire to become evil and remorseless in her monologue by using the literary devices such as symbolism, and alliteration. Lady Macbeth fully expresess her desire to be cruel and heartless in order to become Queen of Scotland. She describes how she wishes for demons to “unsex” her and strip away her womanly emotions.

Macbeth is starting to take the plunge into insanity and is engulfed with paranoia. Macbeth now wishing to determine his fate embarks on a journey to meet the Weird Sisters and command them to reveal to him the rest of the prophecy. This marks a significant change in the relationship as the witches are replacing Lady Macbeth’s influences in Macbeth’s life. At the start of the play, Lady Macbeth was the dominant figure who had the ability to manipulate Macbeth’s thoughts and emotions. Now she lacks the power to keep his mind at ease. Once Macbeth gains the knowledge that he shall not be harmed until Great Birnham wood come to Dunsinane Hill, he gains much confidence as he believes he cannot be harmed by anybody or anything. This overconfidence ultimately leads to Macbeth’s demise. From here on out, Macbeth does not spare a thought for his wife whom he once loved dearly and treasured upon more than anything else in the world. Macbeth is only consumed by his own greed and dark desires. Macbeth and his Lady are now two separate

Soon after, a letter is sent by Macbeth to Lady Macbeth it begins to show Macbeth the reader learns Macbeth may not be as heroic as he is on the battlefield. The letter that Macbeth writes to Lady Macbeth explained what the witches prophesied to Macbeth. Lady Macbeth comments by saying “ Yet I do I fear thy nature: it is to full of th' milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way”(1.5.16-18). Lady Macbeth views Macbeth as a coward and therefore would not kill the king for the throne. In fact, Lady Macbeth is the person who pushes Macbeth to commit the murder of King Duncan in order for her to for her to become queen. Lady Macbeth is the one who plans King Duncan's murder. “When Lady Macbeth enters, though, she uses her cunning rhetoric and persuasive techniques to convince Macbeth of the murders.” (Macbeth-Attitude Changes). Lady Macbeth is strong and likes to get her way. Macbeth continues to demonstrate his lack of heroism because he is Lady Macbeth's follower and does whatever she makes him do. Lady Macbeth treats Macbeth as though he was a ring on her finger. Lady Macbeth at first is shown as ruthless and has complete control over Macbeth and makes him do what ever she wants “Had he not resembled my father as he slept I don it”(2.2.13). This states though she is ruthless she has a

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In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth’s character develops greatly throughout the play. In the opening of the play she is illustrated as a dominant, devious woman who does not have to think second about conspiring to execute the King of Scotland. Nonetheless after the dirty deed is completed, Lady Macbeth breaks down at the end of the play. She endures a nervous breakdown and commits suicide, which displays how she went from a powerful woman to a remorseful maniac.