When she is first seen in the play, she is requesting for evil spirits to filler her from top to bottom with, “direst cruelty. (1.5.41)” By the end of the play, she has devolved into a character who is begging for invisible bloodstains to disappear. Upon her first line delivered, she is seen as possibly the cruelest character within the play. She asks for herself to be castrated so that she could be more of a man, which in her mind were the epitome of cruelty. During her discussion with the, “murd’ring ministers, (46)” Lady Macbeth requests to have her, “passage to remorse,” blocked. This is at a stark contrast to Act Five, where her heart is so, “sorely charged (5.1.44)”, that not even, “all the perfumes of Arabia, (43)” could cure her of her sins. It is quite likely that Lady Macbeth’s cruel qualities existed in her far before the beginning of the play. This especially shows that men are not inherently cruel, as for the majority of the play, the most malignant role was that of a woman, a castrated one, but a woman nevertheless. This further disproves that man is inherently more cruel than woman, as Lady Macbeth is implied to have more intrinsic cruelty than any character within the
When she is first seen in the play, she is requesting for evil spirits to filler her from top to bottom with, “direst cruelty. (1.5.41)” By the end of the play, she has devolved into a character who is begging for invisible bloodstains to disappear. Upon her first line delivered, she is seen as possibly the cruelest character within the play. She asks for herself to be castrated so that she could be more of a man, which in her mind were the epitome of cruelty. During her discussion with the, “murd’ring ministers, (46)” Lady Macbeth requests to have her, “passage to remorse,” blocked. This is at a stark contrast to Act Five, where her heart is so, “sorely charged (5.1.44)”, that not even, “all the perfumes of Arabia, (43)” could cure her of her sins. It is quite likely that Lady Macbeth’s cruel qualities existed in her far before the beginning of the play. This especially shows that men are not inherently cruel, as for the majority of the play, the most malignant role was that of a woman, a castrated one, but a woman nevertheless. This further disproves that man is inherently more cruel than woman, as Lady Macbeth is implied to have more intrinsic cruelty than any character within the