The Weak Character Of Lady Macbeth

The Tragedy of “Macbeth’’ Often times, weak people are manipulative, liars, and deceitful in order to cover up their trails. In William Shakespeare's,’’Macbeth,’’ Macbeth murders his kinsman, loyal friend, his king, and two innocent men in order to stay in the throne. Lady Macbeth is such a weak character throughout the play. Instead of Lady Macbeth being the strong, supportive character to her husband, Macbeth, she ends up lacking the power to kill Duncan and keep her guilt to herself. Since she couldn’t keep her guilt a secret, it leads to her untimely death when she kills herself. Even though Lady Macbeth seemed controlling and stronger in the beginning, she suddenly fell into her weak-minded self in the end. Lady Macbeth shows how weak she is over the course of the play. During the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth prays to the spirits to become cruel, but if she must ask for cruelty then she herself is weak at this time in the play. She asks the spirits to “...rid me of the natural tenderness of my sex....” (I, V, 39-42). She is praying to the spirits to be cruel since she herself cannot afford that …show more content…
In Act II Scene II, she truly shows her evil side when she says,”Alack, I am afraid they have awakened. And ‘tis not done’! Th’ attempt and not the deed confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready.’’(II, ii, 9-13). This would make her seem evil as she was helping out Macbeth to commit the murder. Helping out Macbeth shows that she was an accomplice to King Duncan’s murder and there’s nothing that makes her seem innocent about that. Showing that Lady Macbeth is evil doesn’t entirely make sense since she only laid the daggers for Macbeth when she was never going to kill Duncan. Therefore, her weakness is still stronger in the play than