How Is Lady Macbeth A Good Person
In Shakespeare's world renowned play, “Macbeth” there are numerous intriguing characters. One such character is Lady Macbeth, the wife of the lead character, Macbeth.
In the play, Lady Macbeth is portrayed as an evil, manipulative and emasculating person. However, there is more to Lady Macbeth then just those qualities.
Lady Macbeth was a good person up until she started craving power. This is evident from many things. Firstly, Lady Macbeth knew how to make Macbeth do what she wanted by emasculating him. Lady Macbeth would only know to do that if she really knew Macbeth as a person, which she did, which proves that Lady Macbeth loved Macbeth and had an intimate relationship with him. These are qualities of a good person.
Although the play portrays the killing of King Duncan as a gruesome act (which it is), it fails to go into specific detail about Lady Macbeth’s role in this act. Lady Macbeth gave Macbeth the idea and method of killing King Duncan. Lady Macbeth ensured that King Duncan's death was short and painless, meaning that although it was a horrific thought and idea, some thought was given from Lady Macbeth about how King Duncan's death could be painless. …show more content…
Another point about the death of King Duncan was Lady Macbeth's motivation.
As proven, Lady Macbeth was a good person who was in an intimate relationship with her husband, Macbeth. This means that there had to be very strong motivation for Lady Macbeth to drive Macbeth to kill King Duncan. The motivation for this was the fact that Lady Macbeth had such a deep love for and had such strong faith in her husband’s ability to be a
king.
Lady Macbeth was a good person who, under the circumstances, had turned evil but she was still good at heart. This is evident when she asks the spirits for her to be “unsexed”. The exact quote is “fill me from crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty”. This means that Lady Macbeth knew that she had to change for the worse in order to be involved in the act of killing King Duncan.
The last point on Lady Macbeth is her guilt. In the beginning of the play, before the murder of King Duncan, Lady Macbeth is seen as heartless and cold. This is evident by how she emasculates Macbeth countless times and says that “Yet do I fear thy nature, it is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness “. Lady Macbeth is seen as the catalyst that drove Macbeth to kill King Duncan which makes her character questionable. However, throughout the play and especially towards the end, the guilt has caught up with Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth realized that what she did was immoral and that the person Macbeth had become and she was at fault for creating the Monster Macbeth became. This is why Lady Macbeth was the one who succumbed to the guilt and killed herself.
It is for these reasons, that Lady Macbeth is presented as a multifaceted character rather than a purely evil character.
In the play, Lady Macbeth is portrayed as an evil, manipulative and emasculating person. However, there is more to Lady Macbeth then just those qualities.
Lady Macbeth was a good person up until she started craving power. This is evident from many things. Firstly, Lady Macbeth knew how to make Macbeth do what she wanted by emasculating him. Lady Macbeth would only know to do that if she really knew Macbeth as a person, which she did, which proves that Lady Macbeth loved Macbeth and had an intimate relationship with him. These are qualities of a good person.
Although the play portrays the killing of King Duncan as a gruesome act (which it is), it fails to go into specific detail about Lady Macbeth’s role in this act. Lady Macbeth gave Macbeth the idea and method of killing King Duncan. Lady Macbeth ensured that King Duncan's death was short and painless, meaning that although it was a horrific thought and idea, some thought was given from Lady Macbeth about how King Duncan's death could be painless. …show more content…
Another point about the death of King Duncan was Lady Macbeth's motivation.
As proven, Lady Macbeth was a good person who was in an intimate relationship with her husband, Macbeth. This means that there had to be very strong motivation for Lady Macbeth to drive Macbeth to kill King Duncan. The motivation for this was the fact that Lady Macbeth had such a deep love for and had such strong faith in her husband’s ability to be a
king.
Lady Macbeth was a good person who, under the circumstances, had turned evil but she was still good at heart. This is evident when she asks the spirits for her to be “unsexed”. The exact quote is “fill me from crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty”. This means that Lady Macbeth knew that she had to change for the worse in order to be involved in the act of killing King Duncan.
The last point on Lady Macbeth is her guilt. In the beginning of the play, before the murder of King Duncan, Lady Macbeth is seen as heartless and cold. This is evident by how she emasculates Macbeth countless times and says that “Yet do I fear thy nature, it is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness “. Lady Macbeth is seen as the catalyst that drove Macbeth to kill King Duncan which makes her character questionable. However, throughout the play and especially towards the end, the guilt has caught up with Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth realized that what she did was immoral and that the person Macbeth had become and she was at fault for creating the Monster Macbeth became. This is why Lady Macbeth was the one who succumbed to the guilt and killed herself.
It is for these reasons, that Lady Macbeth is presented as a multifaceted character rather than a purely evil character.