Analysis Of Lady Macbeth

In Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth plays a significant role. She is the wife to the most noble warrior in Scotland. It is though her actions and conversations that she has with Macbeth that influence him so do the horrible deeds that the does to make himself king. The reader can also notice the way her character develops and changes throughout the play. Lady Macbeth is wife to a man that has been prophesied to become king. Once she finds out of this, she makes it her top priority to make sure that her husband will become king. This means that she is willing to do whatever must be done to produce her desired results. Lady Macbeth, at the beginning of the play, seems as if she has no problem with the dirty deeds that she …show more content…
When she is done reading the letter, she expresses some of her concerns about Macbeth. She believes that Macbeth is to good hearted to do what must be done for him to become king: “Yet I do fear thy nature: / It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way” (1.5.17-18). Lady Macbeth, being Macbeths wife, knows her husband better than anybody else. She knows that Macbeth it to kind and noble to commit murder for the crown, so lady Macbeth takes it upon herself to do the deed. She calls upon the evil spirts of the world to make her strong and unremorseful when she is faced with murdering King Duncan. However, when the time comes to muder Duncan she is unable to proceed. She clams that the reason she is unable to murder Duncan is because he resembles her father: “Had he not resembled / My father as he slept, I had done ’t” (2.2.12-13). The plan for the murder involves Lady Macbeth murdering Duncan, but when she sees him sleeping she is unable to go through with the original plan This is the first time that the reader notices a change within Lady Macbeth. Before this, Lady Macbeth comes off as a woman who is willing to do whatever is necessary for her husband to become king, but now she is unable to go through the murder because the king looks like her father. Even though she does not …show more content…
She has turned her husband in to a murder and because of her the king of Scotland dies. As the play progresses all these thing s catch up with her. She begins to sleepwalk and talk in her sleep. In her sleep, she walks around trying to wash out blood spots that were on her hand when Duncan was murdered: “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!” (5.1.25). Lady Macbeth is now starting to feel remorse for the evil she has caused. She now knows that it takes a lot more than just water to purify her of the evil she has done. This also show that lady is hiding behind a false face and the breakdown of her character. Before, she had no problem with murdering the king for Macbeth to get the crown, but now she is no longer to bear what has happened. This feeling of regret, along with the breakdown of her character, leads to her