Lady Macbeth Character Analysis
Lady Macbeth Character AnalysisLady Macbeth: Unsexed and Uncovered
Lady Macbeth progresses throughout the play from a seemingly savage and heartless creature to a very delicate and fragile woman. In the beginning of the play, she is very ambitious and hungry for power. She pushes Macbeth to kill Duncan in order to fulfill the witches� prophecy. In Act I, Scene 6, she asks the gods to make her emotionally strong like a man in order to help her husband go through with the murder plot. She says, �Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty!� Also, she does everything in her power to convince Macbeth that he would be wrong not to kill Duncan. In Act I, Scene 7, she tells him, �What beast was�t then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; Be so much more the man.� Later on in the play, Lady Macbeth begins to show some small signs of weakness. The first sign of weakness comes in Act II, Scene 2 when she says that she could not kill Duncan because he resembled her father. She explains, �Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done�t.� The other example of some weakness in Lady Macbeth�s character is in Act III, Scene 2 when she tries to comfort Macbeth by telling him...
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