The Role Of Lady Macbeth

Despite the norms regarding theatre during Shakespeare’s era, in his play Macbeth he portrays a very strong female character names Lady Macbeth. She is not only wife to the king Macbeth but she is his prime motivator throughout his rise and fall in power. An elegant, poised physique hides the greed that drives her. Her outer beauty is not reciprocated in her personality. Although she loves and cares for her husband and wishes to see him succeed, she has her own, more selfish, agenda. The entire plot to achieve the throne was thought of by her showing her intelligence, determination, and ruthlessness to get what she wants. “Look like th’ innocent/flower,/But be the serpent under’t” (I.6.76-78) This quote shows how her plan to kill the current king in order to take his and not be suspected of murder is smart and effective.

Macbeth. The plot at the start of this passage in Act 1, Scene 5 reveals that Lady Macbeth is an ambitious, blood thirsty woman who is not afraid to do whatever it takes to seize the throne. As soon as she receives the letter from her husband, she sees the prime opportunity and starts to strategically plan King Duncan’s death. Mrs. is unfazed by her intentions, however, she is worried that her husband is not ambitious enough. Readers observe how Lady Macbeth’s actions in Act 1 foreshadows how her feelings about the murder will be changed later in life. For example she says to her husband who is uneasy about her plans, “It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness, to catch the nearest way.” In fact, she goes as far as calling him a coward as well as questioning Macbeth’s manliness and strength. Lady Macbeth views her husband as someone who lacks the ruthlessness that is necessary to gain power by killing the king. This scenario is ironic because later on in the play readers witness the swapping of the character's feelings towards murder. After the murder of King Duncan Mrs. Macbeth simply washed her hands to erase the trace of blood. However, later on Lady Macbeth feels as if she can not wash her hands enough to make them clean and cleanse her guilt. She goes from saying “Go, get some water and wash this filthy witness from

In play Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare’s most dominant and frightening female characters, known for her ambitious nature. As Macbeth’s wife, her role is significant in his rise and fall from royalty. During Shakespearean times, women were regarded as weak insignificant beings that were there to give birth and look beautiful. They were not thought to be as intelligent or equal to men. Though in Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is the highest influence in Macbeth’s life. Her role was so large; in fact, that she uses her position to gain power, stay strong enough to support her unstable Lord, and fails miserably while their

In Medieval times women were viewed as innocent beings who must be controlled by the men in their family; however, in Shakespeare’s Macbeth a woman is the mastermind behind the start of several horrendous deeds. Lady Macbeth was a woman with determination. When it was prophesized that Macbeth would be king, Lady Macbeth wished that her husband would immediately be at her side so she “may pour [her] spirits in [his] ear” (1. 5. 25). Lady Macbeth wanted nothing less that Macbeth to be king. In order for Macbeth to ascend to the throne, it needed to be emptied of King Duncan. Macbeth was an ambitious man but he was not evil, he would not commit murder to gain the throne; therefore, Lady Macbeth took it upon herself to see her husband crowned king. By making Lady Macbeth the mastermind behind a murder, Shakespeare disputed the typical role of women which labeled them as innocent and harmless beings.

Lady Macbeth is a complex and intriguing character in Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth. She is a difficult character to embody as her personality seems split between two sides, one that is pure evil, sly and conniving in contrast to her softer, vulnerable, weak and feminine side. In the play we see her in these two main ways. The reader may feel a certain animosity towards Lady Macbeth throughout the first few acts as her personality appears more and more distasteful, in spite of this towards the end she has a serious breakdown over the guilt that torments her, even in her sleep, regarding her hand in Duncan’s untimely death.

Lady Macbeth is one of the only women in the story, besides the witches who are really expanded upon. Throughout the story you really find out how manipulative she is. She is all but the only reason that Macbeth killed the king. She was the spark that lit the fire but she was also the wood that kept the fire burning. But its all started when she was told by Macbeth that Malcolm was to become the next king instead of him or his children. This drove her to manipulate Macbeth and to force his hand to kill the king. Lady Macbeth was so ambitious that if she had not been a woman or the fact that duncan looked like her father she would have killed him with her own hand and not Macbeth. She manipulated him by twisting his emotions and calling him less of a

Lady Macbeth’s desire for power prompts her interest in controlling Macbeth’s actions. This theme of the relationship between gender and power is key to Lady Macbeth’s character: her husband implies that she is a masculine soul inhabiting a female body, which seems to link masculinity to ambition and violence. Although women were often expected during Shakespeare’s time to be modest, humble, and obedient, Lady Macbeth is actually one of the most explicitly and relentlessly ambitious of all the characters Shakespeare created. She is a woman who defies the stereotypes of her culture, which assumed that most women were or should be unambitious. At one point, she wishes that she were not a woman so that she could kill Duncan herself. A character

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a play which depicts the tragedy of Macbeth. This play also shows that the process of Macbeth losing everything in his life such as trusts from the people who protect him such as Banquo, by having too much desire to become a king. In this play, Macbeth is always centered, but the readers have to remember that Lady Macbeth, who is a wife of Macbeth is one of the most interesting characters in the play. Lady Macbeth is often said that she is evil, and also she was much stronger and brave, ruthless than Macbeth. However, she is not actually evil and stronger and brave, ruthless as people say. This paper will be focusing on the reason why Lady Macbeth was not actually evil and strong, by focusing her characterization.

She used to be very powerful, but now she is so guilty that she sleepwalks and dreams of the blood on her hands, which is very ironic. this is shown in Act 2 where she states " a little bit of water shall clean us of this deed", but during her sleepwalking state she says "out damn spot, out" showing that no amount of water will clean the blood from her hands. This proves everything isn't as easy as it seems. In Act 3 scene 2 the deterioration of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's relationship is emphasized.

Through a monologue, Macbeth tells of a hallucination dealing with a dagger that begins to drip blood. This incident seems to foreshadow his murderous lifestyle, but it does not predict his loss of remorse. However, it does depict his current position. Subsequent to the Macbeths’ heinous act, Macbeth is ridden with a vicious regret. “Will all great Neptune’s oceans wash this blood/ Clean from my hand,” (2.2.60-61). As much water as fills the immense seas, Macbeth’s guilt measures scads more. Moreover, he brings back the bloody daggers that he used to commit the murder; he carries them in, appalled at what he has done (2.1.33). Although Macbeth is in hysterics, dismayed and speaking in a horrified tone, Lady Macbeth simply tells him to get rid of them. She does not react to the blood; all she is thinking is that they are one step closer to the throne. Feeling no regret for the crime, she hurries to return the weapons and attempts to bury the sin that they have committed. In hiding the bloodstained blades, she is covering her guilt as well.

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

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 is one of Shakespeare’s most frightening and strong-willed female characters. It is she, being far more ruthless, mentally stronger, and more determined compared to her indecisive husband, who takes on the masculine role. After reading Macbeth's letter in which he describes meeting the Three witches and learning of their prophecies, Lady Macbeth's grows ambitious. Viewing such opportunity as grace and favour of the fates, Lady Macbeth embraces the idea of killing Duncan. However, Lady Macbeth believes Macbeth “Is too full o’ the milk of human kindness.” Macbeth is too gentle and weak to murder Duncan, an honoured guest, a fellow kinsmen, the king. At one point, Lady Macbeth wishes she were not a woman, and calls upon the murderous sprits to "unsex me here".

Lady Macbeth is one of the most interesting and unexpected female characters in William Shakespeare’s literature. She is a much stronger, ruthless, and ambitious character than her husband, Macbeth. Unlike Macbeth, she lacks the humanity. Lady Macbeth goes through a series of changes regarding her mental and spiritual life, which a woman during the Elizabethan era would not go through. Throughout the novel, as Lady Macbeth manipulates her husband going after the crown and maintain his authority, she experiences a series of changes to her mental and spiritual life.

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