Lady Macbeth's Downfall

Having the constant feeling of guilt around can make it difficult to focus on the basic duties we do in our life. Lady Macbeth experiences this feeling and starts to deteriorate. With this new state Lady Macbeth starts sleep walking and is replaying the

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

Macbeth and his friend Banquo wandered into talking to three witches. The three witches tell Macbeth he’s going to be king, but they also tell Banquo that his children will be in the royalty line. Macbeth takes interest in the possibility of being a king, but he doesn’t pursue with any actions until his wife finds out about the prophecies. Once Lady Macbeth found out, she constantly built ambition upon her husband. To become king, Macbeth first had to kill Duncan. Macbeth killed Duncan and was filled with remorse and regret, but his wife was basically the one under

While Macbeth is hesitant before and during the process of murdering Duncan, Lady Macbeth remains persistent and encourages Macbeth to “only look up clear. To alter favour ever is to fear.” (1.5.78-79). She then proceeds to say, “Leave all the rest to me.” (1.5.80). Before Lady Macbeth is aware of Macbeth’s prophecy, she is considered a pure, honest and a genuine woman. But after Macbeth shares his future, Lady Macbeth develops a greedy aspiration for being crowned Queen. In order for her dream to come true, Lady Macbeth forces her husband to carry out King Duncan’s murder by saying, hypothetically if she had made a promise with Macbeth, even if it was to kill her own child by “dash(ing) the brains out…” (1.7.62-64), she would not withdraw her promise. It is evident at this point the extreme measures Lady Macbeth is willing to pursue in order to fulfill her own selfish ambition. Lady Macbeth’s honest and pure personality transforms her into a selfish, highly driven and manipulative woman. Like Macbeth, Lady Macbeth struggles to deal with the guilt she experiences as a result of her actions, yet she is unable to disguise her guilt with selfish ambition. Her mental stability begins to diminish, which is particularly evident in Act 5. Her guilt becomes noticeable when she begins sleepwalking and sleep talking about

Lady Macbeth is one of the main characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Shakespeare’s, she is an ambitious and strong-willed woman who encourages Macbeth to commit regicide, then struggles with her own bouts of insanity and guilt. She is important in her husband’s spiral into madness. In Act 5 Scene 1, a well-known sleepwalking sequence demonstrates Lady Macbeth’s remorse and spirals into insanity as she tries to clean her hands of the blood: “Out, damned spot; out, I say! One, two: why, then/’tis time to don’t.”

Along the way she starts to take some control over him and telling him exactly what to do and what is the right thing to do. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are married to each other, she starts to fear about the choices he’s starting to make without thinking about the consequences. “...Go get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand. Why did you bring these daggers from the place?.” (Document C) “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be What thou art promised.

The first we see of Lady Macbeth is a very ambitious woman. Despite her husband being very nervous and doubtful about the witches’ prophecies, Lady Macbeth knows that the path of murder is the one she wants to take. “Yet I do fear thy nature; it is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way,” she states after she reads her husband’s fears about becoming king (Shakespeare, 31). Lady Macbeth wants her husband to be a great ruler - not a kind one.

She believes that her ambition to become queen will come true after reading Macbeth's letter with tells her of his meeting with the witches and their prophecy that Macbeth will become king. Shakespeare wrote "Macbeth" so that throughout the play tension is built up and the play relates strongly to witchcraft and the

At the time, women usually tended to not have as much power as men did. But as the story progresses, Macbeth is heavily swayed by his wife. Macbeth’s wife played a huge role in influencing Macbeth to commit the crimes that had caused him to be crowned king. This shows that Lady Macbeth had a lot of power, even as a

Lady Macbeth was truly an ambitious woman. What happened to her was a tragedy. Confronted by her guilt every night that replaced reviving sleep is what drove her to take out her own light. “She [had] a light by her continually”(5.1.24-25) to keep the dark, she called up her to “unsex”(1.5.48) her, away. She was a generous woman who broke gender stereotypes for women everywhere and she made a mistake, a really awful mistake that gradually ate away at her soul and forced her to end her life.

In Macbeth, shakespeare disregards typical gender roles. He creates a marriage that features a dominant female leader, and a husband that is easily controlled. This relationship is clearly demonstrated in the first scene that introduces lady Macbeth. Although the interaction is only over a letter, the unique way the two characters react to the prophecy of the witches exemplifies their character traits.

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.

In the beginning of the play, the three witches tell Macbeth that he is destined to become King of Scotland. With this information, he wasn't sure what to do. However, once he told this prophecy to his wife, Lady

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.

The relationship of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth is a complex one. Macbeth in the beginning does not come across to us as dominant. He more so looks to Lady Macbeth for comfort, assurance, and direction.”… Go get some water And wash your hand. Why did you bring these daggers