What Is Lady Macbeth Evil
The Dark Side of Lady Macbeth Lady Macbeth is considered to be one of the most dominant female characters in literature. She is portrayed as an innocent, loving wife at the start of the story. She receives the letter from Macbeth that explains the witches’ prophecies. She then rapidly changes into a heartless and conniving human being, she decided to plot against Duncan for the sake of her opportunity to become queen, but does not want to do the deed herself. Lady Macbeth is deemed as the villain of the play because of her manipulative, selfish and evil traits.
At the start of the play, the three witches visit Macbeth to tell him their prophecies, they also tell him “what is foul is fair, what is fair is foul”. This means that appearances …show more content…
Which is why she decides to convince Macbeth to do so for her. Lady Macbeth has three main techniques that she uses to manipulate Macbeth. Her first method is to question his manhood " What beast was’t then,
That made you break this enterprise with me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man." Act 1 Scene 7. She is trying to prove to him that he was much more of a man when he dared to commit the murder, and wants to show him that when he had the courage to commit the murder she found it a lot more manly and attractive. She also sees that he was manlier when he was prepared to do something that was mandatory to do if he wanted to become the bigger man. She wants to take away his masculine pride and make him feel vulnerable and weak compared to her, so that way he will kill King Duncan to win back his masculinity. Her next tactic is to guilt him into the murder, “Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this.” Act 1 Scene 7. She wants to show him that she would have done such insane acts herself to follow through with
At the start of the play, the three witches visit Macbeth to tell him their prophecies, they also tell him “what is foul is fair, what is fair is foul”. This means that appearances …show more content…
Which is why she decides to convince Macbeth to do so for her. Lady Macbeth has three main techniques that she uses to manipulate Macbeth. Her first method is to question his manhood " What beast was’t then,
That made you break this enterprise with me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man." Act 1 Scene 7. She is trying to prove to him that he was much more of a man when he dared to commit the murder, and wants to show him that when he had the courage to commit the murder she found it a lot more manly and attractive. She also sees that he was manlier when he was prepared to do something that was mandatory to do if he wanted to become the bigger man. She wants to take away his masculine pride and make him feel vulnerable and weak compared to her, so that way he will kill King Duncan to win back his masculinity. Her next tactic is to guilt him into the murder, “Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this.” Act 1 Scene 7. She wants to show him that she would have done such insane acts herself to follow through with