Lady Macbeth starts out hungry for power. She is willing to do anything to get it. She appears to be heartless and cruel. She convinces her husband to kill the king in order to get power. Lady Macbeth forces her husband to kill even though he originally did not want to. She says that she wishes she was manly so she could kill the king herself because her husband does not want to.
“Does unmake you. I have given suck, and I know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this” (Shakespeare I.VII.62).
She even says she would kill her child if she said she would do it. She comes across as cold …show more content…
She realizes she is responsible for his death and is starting to feel guilty. She starts to go insane and is revealing her secrets in her sleep. She always has to have a candle lit by her when it is dark out too. “Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand” (Shakspeare V.I.53). Lady Macbeth says nothing could wash away the smell of blood on her hands. She feels extremely guilty and is starting to go a little insane over it. She ends up ending her own life over it because she has gone crazy with guilt. Lady Macbeth has a significant transformation from start to finish. She is completely heartless and cold in the beginning and is overcome with guilt in the end to the point where she ends her life. In conclusion, Lady Macbeth has one of the biggest character transformations in the play. She starts out plotting the murder of the king so she can become all powerful, she plans to put the blame for it on someone else, and is making her husband do her dirty work while not feeling any remorse. She ended the play insane with guilt and telling her secrets in her sleep. The amount of guilt she had over the king’s death caused her to kill
“Does unmake you. I have given suck, and I know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this” (Shakespeare I.VII.62).
She even says she would kill her child if she said she would do it. She comes across as cold …show more content…
She realizes she is responsible for his death and is starting to feel guilty. She starts to go insane and is revealing her secrets in her sleep. She always has to have a candle lit by her when it is dark out too. “Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand” (Shakspeare V.I.53). Lady Macbeth says nothing could wash away the smell of blood on her hands. She feels extremely guilty and is starting to go a little insane over it. She ends up ending her own life over it because she has gone crazy with guilt. Lady Macbeth has a significant transformation from start to finish. She is completely heartless and cold in the beginning and is overcome with guilt in the end to the point where she ends her life. In conclusion, Lady Macbeth has one of the biggest character transformations in the play. She starts out plotting the murder of the king so she can become all powerful, she plans to put the blame for it on someone else, and is making her husband do her dirty work while not feeling any remorse. She ended the play insane with guilt and telling her secrets in her sleep. The amount of guilt she had over the king’s death caused her to kill