How Is Lady Macbeth Despicable

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Sometimes in life people may be despicable to others to get what they want. Lady Macbeth used Macbeth to get power. The Tragedy Of Macbeth explains the life of Macbeth being persuaded to murder people by his wife, Lady Macbeth. Macbeth does these things so that he can please Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is a despicable person for putting all this dirt on Macbeth’s hands. Lady Macbeth manipulates Macbeth into doing plenty of things. She is a wicked person because she rather put the dirt on Macbeth’s hands instead of her own. In Act 2, Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth to kill Duncan so that he can become king and get her more power. As Macbeth is going to kill Duncan he sees a dagger. The dagger represents Lady Macbeth because it is making the

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