Similarities Between Lady Macbeth And Ophelia

Hamlet and Macbeth were written by William Shakespeare. The plays have the characters Lady Macbeth and Ophelia in them. Hamlet is a play about a man named Hamlet, who wants revenge for the murder of his father. Ophelia is Hamlet’s love interest in the play. Macbeth is about a man named Macbeth, who receives a prophecy that one day he will be king. Lady Macbeth is Macbeth’s wife in the play. Lady Macbeth is one of the main characters in Macbeth, while Ophelia is more of a side character more than a main character in Hamlet. Lady Macbeth and Ophelia have their similarities and differences that will be focused on. Lady Macbeth and Ophelia impact the reader in a similar way, because they receive no sympathy from the reader, but Lady Macbeth and Ophelia have attitudes, desires, and deaths that impact the plays in different ways. Lady
Lady Macbeth is announced to be dead when Seton says, “The queen, my lord, is dead.” (Macbeth 5.5.16). Macbeth wants to mourn her death, but he was preparing for war at the moment. Lady Macbeth’s death impacts Macbeth, because his viewpoint of life changes when she dies. Macbeth realizes that he let his ambitions ruin his life. Macbeth thinks that his life is meaningless, because he realizes that everyone is after him for all the things he has done before and after becoming the king. Macbeth now fights for his life that he now thinks, is meaningless. Ophelia’s death impacts the play, because her death made Laertes angrier at Hamlet. Laertes was already mad at Hamlet, because Laertes learned that Hamlet killed Laertes’ father, Polonius. Ophelia’s death is announced when the queen says, “One sorrow follows on the heels of another, they happen so quickly. Your sister has drowned, Laertes!” (Hamlet 4.7.178-79). Ophelia’s death made Laertes want to fight Hamlet even more, because Laertes thinks that Hamlet is the reason why Ophelia went mad and committed