Lady Macbeth Is Not Evil Analysis

After Macbeth receives the prophecy that he will become the king of Scotland he begins to acknowledge the possibility. When he returns to his wife at his home he brings with him this ambition. He tells his wife, Lady Macbeth, that he has received this prophecy and she begins to believe that she begins to steer Macbeth towards killing the king. Lady Macbeth believes that the king, who is scheduled to stay in their home, is Macbeth 's best ticket to becoming King. When he starts to resist this proposal to the King, lady Macbeth takes the prophecy into her own hands. She begins to taunt him and tease him calling him less than a man. She finally gets him to kill the King and his crime is rewarded. Macbeth, now the king of Scotland, begins to …show more content…
Towards her death, Lady Macbeth begins to walk during the night. She speaks and does small tasks around her room. One of the people caring for her begins to think that her unusual behavior is a sickness. She brings in a doctor to take a look at Lady Macbeth. One of the things witnessed by the doctor is Lady Macbeth walking to the sink and telling an unseen person to “wash [their] hands; put on [their] nightgown; [and to] look not so pale (Shakespeare 107). This shows that Lady Macbeth is not evil. This is because if Lady Macbeth was truly evil she would feel no guilt about the killings. Her attempting to wash her hands in her sleep shows just how burdened by guilt Lady Macbeth is. The blood represents the guilt. She previously believed that it was as simple as washing it away however now she sees the truth. There isn’t a way to wash the guilt off her hands even though she tries desperately. The fact that she even does it in her sleep exemplifies the rate at which she is becoming consumed by guilt. It is at the point that it never leaves her mind. Her body has begun to almost treat it as a disease, attempting to purge it even during her sleep. Lady Macbeth is not evil because of the remorse she feels during Macbeth 's