Lady Macbeth

Lady Macbeth is most famous and frightening female characters in Shakespeares play. She is portrayed as the most evil and powerful figure she's charming, attractive, ambitious, and seems to be completely devoted to her husband. (Lady Macbeth, 2012), (Lady Macbeth Analysis, 2012), (Lady Macbeth Character Analysis, 2012) Lady Macbeth is like her husband Macbeth fulfills her role among the nobility and is well respected. She is determined that her will be king, yet very she is a loving person. She is stronger, ruthless, and more ambitious than her husband. She is also cruel, and manipulating. Shakespeare shows Lady Macbeth at the start of the play plotting the murder of Duncan. She pushes Macbeth to kill Duncan in order to fulfill the witches' prophecy. She would do anything to have power, so she convinces Macbeth that he would be wrong not to kill Duncan. Lady Macbeth is considered to be a witchy woman she calls on spirits she literally means that she wants to switch with her husband with her harsh words she help convince him to take action against Duncan All of this is to say that Lady Macbeth is portrayed as masculine, and therefore, an "unnatural" figure. Lady Macbeth provokes Macbeth into doing this terrible deed so that he will no longer be afraid and he can gain power after the kings death. Lady Macbeth later on in the play begins to show some small signs of weakness. Lady Macbeth is considered to be an ambition woman when it was about the witches' prophecy that Macbeth will ultimately become the king. She fears that Macbeth will be too kind-hearted to achieve this status so she begins to take matters into her own hands. Her soliloquy imploring dark powers to take all compassion from her is appalling in its unnaturalness: 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, 40-43) Lady Macbeth proceeds to be more ambitious then Macbeth is. She is shown as a mentally strong and she did not seem to be troubled by the murders that she was a part of and what kept Macbeth focused on committing the murders was her determined ambition. Lady Macbeth can be cruel that she rarely shows any sign of sympathy towards any characters in the play. When she finds out about the witches prophecies given to Macbeth, she immediately takes action and creates a plan. She works out all the details and plans to kill the king, and Banquo. Lady Macbeth takes command of the situation

and returns the blood-stained daggers to Duncan's room, when Macbeth cannot return himself. Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers. (II, ii, 51-52) In the murder of Banquo she plays a key role. Macbeth is so unsettled by seeing the ghost of Banquo that he nearly has a mental breakdown during the feast while there are guests over. Lady Macbeth ridicules Macbeth and shows no regard for this. When Lady Macbeth dies in the play it does not have any effect on the play and she is not considered as a hero. She is actually shown as a cruel person. It is difficult for the audience to sympathize with her character on a personal level due to her is pure evilness and it is also difficult for anyone to ever forgive her, because crimes were considered so brutal. Lady Macbeth manipulation is exceedingly seen in how she is openly defies heaven. Her true nature can be reflected through the imagery of blood, violence, and death. The actions which eventually led to Macbeth committing the acts that he did where instigated by Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth's gives Macbeth the vital push and then sustain him until he can control his own conscience and actions. Lady Macbeth accuses Macbeth of being a coward as her specific techniques to ensure that Macbeth keeps to his purpose. The characteristics that Lady Macbeth herself possesses are regularly present in a male such as single-minded courage and cruelty. Lady Macbeth ridicules her husband for not being able to murder Duncan and she shuns Macbeth for his failure to live up to the standard which she, as a woman, has set by using her physical characteristics of a woman, and mental characteristics of a man, as seen in the following quote: I have given suck, and know How tender `tis to love the babe that milks me; I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this (I, vii, 54-59) The first sign of weakness is when she tells Macbeth that she could not kill Duncan because he resembled her father. The second sign of weakness is when she tries to comfort Macbeth and tells him not to worry about what he did to Duncan and what he is about to do to Banquo. Throughout most of the play, she portrays the strong character, and always leading and pushing Macbeth to carry out their plot, but in by the end of the play we begin to see that she wasn't as strong as she had appeared. (Characteristics of Lady Macbeth, 2012), (Lady Macbeth Analysis, 2012), (Shakespeare - Lady Macbeth, 2012), (Lady Macbeth Character Analysis, 2012), (Character Analysis Lady Macbeth, 2012), (Lady

Macbeth Character changes throughout the play, 2012), (Shakespeare - Lady Macbeth , 2012), (Lady Macbeth Character Analysis, 2012), (Shakspeare, 2007) Lady Macbeth appears in the begging of the play to be a powerful character stronger, ruthless, and more ambitious than her husband, but at the end of the play she has been sleepwalking through the castle, desperately trying to wash away an invisible bloodstain, that was due to sense of guilt comes home to roost, Lady Macbeths sensitivity becomes a weakness, and she is unable to cope. Significantly, she apparently kills herself, signaling her total inability to deal with the legacy of their crimes. (Analysis of Major Characters Lady Macbeth, 2012), (Lady Macbeth Character Analysis, 2012), (Characteristics Of Lady Macbeth, 2012)

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