In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, the character Lady Macbeth plays a role of a man in order to achieve higher social status and become a royal family. Lady Macbeth is very persuasive and makes the decision to make her plan of being the queen successful. She does not allow her husband to make the decisions. She gives instructions to her husband and makes him do what she wants him to do. Shakespeare presents the character named Lady Macbeth who attempts to play masculine role and makes plans to commit murder in order to clear anyone stopping her from being the queen so that she can fulfill her dream of becoming a queen.
Lady Macbeth demonstrates a contrast between the typical female in relationship since her lust for power to achieve …show more content…
Lady Macbeth’s desire to be the queen generates a feeling of killing anyone who stops her from fulfilling her desire. Lady Macbeth proposes, “Make thick my blood;/ Stop up the access and passage to remorse,/ That no compunctious visiting of nature/ Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between/ The effect and it!” (Shakespeare 1.5.38-42). Lady Macbeth is ready to kill the people that stops her from becoming the queen. She wants her desire of becoming the queen to be achieved anyhow. Her greed of becoming the queen convinces her to commit crime. According to Clayden, “She immediately resolves that once under their roof, the king shall never leave it alive; and while she is reflecting on this, her husband arrives, and the very first sentences of their conversation reveal to each the purpose that animates both” (Clayden 3). Lady Macbeth makes the plan to kill anyone that is in her way to prevent her from becoming the queen. She changes herself and makes plan to commit murder for the sake of the throne. Her lust changes her into a woman that commits crime and makes her to play a different role than the other typical women. Lady Macbeth wants to make plans to achieve her ambitions in order to portray that her plans help her become the queen. Lady Macbeth insists Macbeth to, “come to [her] woman’s breasts,/ And take
Lady Macbeth demonstrates a contrast between the typical female in relationship since her lust for power to achieve …show more content…
Lady Macbeth’s desire to be the queen generates a feeling of killing anyone who stops her from fulfilling her desire. Lady Macbeth proposes, “Make thick my blood;/ Stop up the access and passage to remorse,/ That no compunctious visiting of nature/ Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between/ The effect and it!” (Shakespeare 1.5.38-42). Lady Macbeth is ready to kill the people that stops her from becoming the queen. She wants her desire of becoming the queen to be achieved anyhow. Her greed of becoming the queen convinces her to commit crime. According to Clayden, “She immediately resolves that once under their roof, the king shall never leave it alive; and while she is reflecting on this, her husband arrives, and the very first sentences of their conversation reveal to each the purpose that animates both” (Clayden 3). Lady Macbeth makes the plan to kill anyone that is in her way to prevent her from becoming the queen. She changes herself and makes plan to commit murder for the sake of the throne. Her lust changes her into a woman that commits crime and makes her to play a different role than the other typical women. Lady Macbeth wants to make plans to achieve her ambitions in order to portray that her plans help her become the queen. Lady Macbeth insists Macbeth to, “come to [her] woman’s breasts,/ And take