Lady Macbeth

Lady Macbeth 's Path to Destruction There is a common theme in William Shakespeare’s plays of characters taking their own lives. This tragic event is shown in his works of Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Macbeth. In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, this theme is present when Lady Macbeth takes her own life at the end of the play. Lady Macbeth begins as a strong woman, eager for Macbeth to murder the king, but she starts to spiral downward when Macbeth breaks her original plan. As we move throughout the…

From the play Macbeth, it can be seen that Macbeth is upright, brave and honorable at first, while under the instigation of Lady Macbeth, he kills King Duncan, since which he begin to turn evil and cruel. In terms of Lady Macbeth, she is vicious and greedy woman at first. It’s Lady Macbeth that acts as a pushing force to drive Macbeth to be enough cruel to pursuit his ambition. while gradually, she feels tortured by killing King Duncan and at last commits suicide to relive herself from the…

In Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth plays a significant role. She is the wife to the most noble warrior in Scotland. It is though her actions and conversations that she has with Macbeth that influence him so do the horrible deeds that the does to make himself king. The reader can also notice the way her character develops and changes throughout the play. Lady Macbeth is wife to a man that has been prophesied to become king. Once she finds out of this, she makes it her top…

William Shakespeare, “Macbeth,” very clearly indicates the sociopathic tendencies of Lady Macbeth. While it is certainly clear that her husband is a ruthless and largely amoral that is driven mostly by ambition, it is Lady Macbeth that most clearly lacks a conscience when the two individual characters are compared. When the witches issue their prophecy that Macbeth will someday become King of Scotland, he and his wife begin plotting to make this prophecy into a reality. While Macbeth seems to…

powerful female figures in literature, Lady Macbeth stands out far beyond the rest of Shakespeare’s female characters — remarkable for her ambition, boldness, and cruelty. However, these three intense traits contribute to her downfall and eventual suicide. If one was to step back and examine the corpse, the most noticeable feature would be her “wings.” After reading Macbeth’s letter at the beginning of Act I, Scene 5, and learning of the three witches’ prophecies, Lady Macbeth’s ambition begins…

from Lady Macbeth made Macbeth to do grody things. Lady Macbeth influenced Macbeth to do the most vicious. Lady Macbeth influenced Macbeth by pushing him to kill king Duncan. In Act 1, scene 7, Lady Macbeth tells to Macbeth, she can smash a baby if she had dares to do the deed in order to attain the throne. Lady Macbeth says, “ Even as the baby was smiling up at me, I would have plucked my nipple out of its mouth and smashed its brains out against a wall.” (Page 15). This quote shows that Lady…

of others. In the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, many character are lied to and deceived by others. The entire Kingdom of Scotland was brought to ruins by these deceits. The misfortune of the Kingdom can be traced back to one person, Lady Macbeth. Her interactions with Macbeth and her plan to kill the king has brought the Kingdom of Scotland to ruins. Lady Macbeth is not the true victim because of her ambition, villainous nature, and her relation to Macbeth. Lady Macbeth’s longing for…

be. In particular, William Shakespeare’s Macbeth portrayed a very powerful, strong and almost masculine female character, most commonly known as Lady Macbeth. Even though Lady Macbeth seems stable in the beginning of the play, the deeds that she has done throughout the play and will torment her, resulting in Lady Macbeth being a victim of her own fantasy. Lady Macbeth might seem like sweet and innocent woman to the other characters in the play…

Lady Macbeth is fueled by her desire for power and status. She is the prospect of being married to a King and possessing all of the wealth that is sure to follow it which leads her to start planning the downfall of their journey. The feature of Lady Macbeth’s first appearance is her immediate determination and ambition. Lady Macbeth is ready to do whatever is necessary to collect the throne. The theme of ambition is constantly recurring in the play; it starts off as Lady Macbeth being the more…

Usually in most stories, the male main character plays a dominant role in the outcome of a play and holds all of the power. But this is not the case in William Shakespeare’s famous 17th century play, Macbeth. Lady Macbeth, the main character Macbeth’s wife, plays a huge role and almost entirely affects the outcome of the play even though she is not the main character. She demonstrates the role of femme fatale, a woman who will use and destroy any man that comes into her life. She dominates the…