Bryce Hamilton Ms. Ratay English IV 10 March 2023 Character Analysis on Lady Macbeth In William Shakepears play, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth undergoes a transformation from a ruthless woman, to a woman filled with despair due to her actions throughout the play. Specifically I will examine three parts to her character change that illustrate her evolution from an ambitious, manipulative figure in the beginning to an unstable, guilt ridden one in the end. Her character change is an interesting twist from good to bad, unlike how Macbeth's character changes. There is a reason for this change. In act 1 scene 5, Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as a powerful woman who feels trapped within society's view of a female. It all begins when she is introduced to the play and Lady Macbeth reads a letter from her husband about his encounter with the witches. She fears that her husband is too much of a coward to catch the 'nearest way' of achieving the throne. She wants him to come home quickly so that she can pour her words of ambition into his ears. When we first see her in Act 1, she is already plotting Duncan's murder, and she is stronger, more ruthless, and more ambitious than her husband. She seems fully aware of this and knows that she will have to push Macbeth into committing …show more content…
This point is shown when she says “To bed, to bed. They're knocking at the gate. Come, come, come, come. Give me your hand. What's done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed”(165). She says this while sleepwalking, but this is the last we hear of her. Because shortly after, she slips into a depressive state she won't be able to escape. This reveals that she has come to the realization that there is no escaping the consequences of their actions. She felt as if there was no way she could correct her and her husband's sins. So she gets rid of them the only way she could. She commits suicide in hopes to finally be washed of her
When she says that “with no bed for him there, (the town), no blankets, glossy throws”. This part did not make too much sense to me, however she did say that his father was getting
But she had refused to do so in the beginning. However, she had surrender to those demands. Her wanted to be free show how stubborn she is against her husband. Because her being “conscious” and not wanting to follow her husband
She attempted to manipulate him and to draw him into her world by telling him that he is a good man and would not want to kill a lady. He agreed with her but he had no reason to spare her life. Being close to her death she started to realize the bad personality that she had throughout her lifetime and she accepted that she is the same as everyone else. She said to the Misfit “why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children”(O’Connor106).
She wanted to be saved from her husband's beating but drunk on the thought of a life she desired had caused her
The Reason he tells her to do so is because she’s about to be married off to Paris someone she doesn’t love. The quote that backs this up is Take thou this vial being then in bed, And this distilled liquor drink thou off,When presently through all thy veins shall run A cold and drowsy hour, for no
When she says “My head is killing me, my throat is killing me, my stomach bubbles with toxic waste. I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice, or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my mind too?”
When he did, she told him it was because she hated him, how she felt guilty that she wasn’t with the rest of her family, and said, “You begged me to stay [alive]. You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow” (p. 189). She told him that when she was unconscious in the hospital, she was able to hear things around her. That’s why she heard him when he said to her in the hospital, “Maybe coming back to your old life would just be too painful, maybe it’d be easier for you to erase us… I can lose you like that if I don’t lose you today. I’ll let you go.
William Shakespeare portrayed the character Lady Macbeth to be extremely ruthless, malicious and manipulative. Thus, being the reason she could easily convince Macbeth to do her will, yet still put on such a convincing performance in front of those who knew nothing of her and her husband’s actions. Lady Macbeth shows her complexity constantly throughout the story when she shares her view-point on masculinity by demasculinizing her own husband, when she strategically plans the murder of the King Duncan, and finally when she finally goes crazy because of the guilt she possesses for not only her own actions but also turning her own husband into a
Like men, she has the trait to be gruesome and diabolical in nature. She has determined for herself the course to be pursued and nothing can hinder her. She does not need the prophecy of the witches to urge her. She is aware of her strength and she is resolute in her aim. Knowing Macbeth’s weakness,
So, in this moment of no one standing up for her, it continued on and on, and she just gave up on mentioning it. The horrors she went on in the middle of every night. In her mind, she’s grown weak and just went on to accept it.
In addition to her actions being a result of circumstance she still desired to be good. This is proven when she travels across the country to seek forgiveness in her indirect role of her lover from his wife. “You must hear it, so that I might be forgiven,” she begged as she tried to tell the wife what had happened (Maguire 319). She still desired to be good and when that woman was killed, the one woman she believed could forgive her, she snapped. She became an obsessed creature that lived in the castle of the woman and her kidnapped family, lashing out in fear.
Out of all the characters in “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” the character of Lady Macbeth undergoes the most noticeable changes. Her character is also regarded as one of the most complex out of all Shakespearian plays. That is the main reason why she deserves careful attention to her character. Throughout the play, she descends into madness. And this “descent into madness” can be divided into three different parts, which results in the thesis statement of this essay: Lady Macbeth undergoes three noticeable changes as her character regresses and deteriorates over time.
Celia Beyers Tinti Period 1/5 12 April 2015 Literary Analysis: Macbeth In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, he presents the character of Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is shown, as a character that schemes into making rebellious plots. She reveals the desire for wanting to lose her feminine qualities in order to be able to gain more masculine ones.
In this scene her emotions are gone and she has already made up her mind that she was either going to live happily ever after or she was going to die for what she believed