Lady macbeth's character by shahad

1. An Analysis of Lady Macbeth’s
Character, With Special Reference to
Her Influence on Her Husband’s
Actions

Shahad F. Alnemari

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Lane 448

Dr. Fawziya Aseel

2. Lady Macbeth :.

Lady Macbeth, the other character appearing in the play is
almost represented as flat character. She is the wife to the
play's protagonist, Macbeth, a Scottish nobleman.

Lady Macbeth has a powerful presence in the play, most
notably in the first two acts. Following the murder of King
Duncan, however, her role in the plot diminishes. She becomes
an uninvolved spectator to Macbeth's plotting, and a nervous
hostess at a banquet dominated by her husband's
hallucinations. Her fifth act sleepwalking scene is a turning
point in the play. She dies off-stage in the last act, an
apparent suicide.

Lady Macbeth fulfills her role among the nobility and is
well respected like Macbeth. She is loving to her husband but
at the same time very ambitious, as shown by her immediate
determination for Macbeth to be king.

3. Lady Macbeth has both good and evil qualities. In the
play, she is introduced to the audience as a dominant,
ruthless, and heartless wife driven to see her husband be
crowned the king of Scotland.

Lady Macbeth knows her husband well. She thinks he
may be too kind in order to murder King Duncan. This is
why she represses her conscience so she can later usher
Macbeth into committing the deed. At first Macbeth
agrees. But later Macbeth wavers in his decision. But
Lady Macbeth is sure that being king is what Macbeth
really wants and that this is the best for both of them. So,
in response to Macbeth's uncertainty, Lady Macbeth
manipulates him by questioning his manhood and his
love for her. She is successful because regardless of his
own conscience Macbeth carries out their plan of murder.

4. The almost superhuman strength Lady Macbeth rallies for
the occasion and her artful and sly ability are shown
through her meticulous attention to detail regarding the
murder. When Macbeth returns to their chamber she goes
back to the murder scene and cleverly smears the rooms
with Duncan's blood. However, her morals had prevailed just
a while before as revealed through her comment that she
would have killed Duncan herself had he not "resembled
[her] father as he slept."

At the beginning Lady Macbeth finds strength to entice
Macbeth to murder Duncan and to follow through with the
murder herself. As time advances though, her pretended
strength diminishes as she fights the torments of her
conscience. Tending to her conscience engulfs and
destabilizes her so that she can not support Macbeth
against Malcolm. Lady Macbeth's attempts to suppress her
conscience fail. At the end she chooses death because she
can no longer bear the torments of her guilt.

5. References :.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Macbeth


•http://www.angelfire.com/tx3/chrissandy1/calady
macbeth.htm


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