Macbeth: Lady Macbeth
Macbeth: Lady MacBeth
Lady MacBeth is one of Shakespeare's greatest and most intriguing female
characters. She is evil, seductive, and witch-like all at the same time.
However, during the play we see her in two different ways. At the time when we
first meet her, she is a brutally violent, power wanting witch, and later on she
turns to a shameful suicidal grieving woman.
At the beginning of the MacBeth, Lady MacBeth is very savage and vicious.
She thinks nothing of killing King Duncan. She has no sense of what is wrong
and right, and believes that it is perfectly moral to do the deed of murder.
She states that to not go through with the deed would be horrible to yourself,
and that you would be a coward in your own eyes.
"Wouldst thou have that which thou esteem'st the ornament
of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem,"
She states that if she was MacBeth and did not jump at this perfect opportunity,
that if a child, being fed at her breast, where as......
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