Lady Macbeth is a very big part in Shakespeare 1604-1606 play; Macbeth. At the beginning of the play she comes off as a nice young lady who is married to the king's number one knight, Macbeth. Judging by the time period you would first think that Lady Macbeth would be a weak girl who got pushed around by her big husband. As it turns out Lady Macbeth is the powerful one. She is capable of controlling Macbeth. The way that the play is written you can clearly follow her thoughts and actions, and you learn that she has a very sick and twisted mind. At the beginning of the story you never would have thought that Lady Macbeth is the mastermind behind killing the king, Duncan. She will do anything to get what she wants.She really believes the witches prediction about Macbeth becoming king and almost promises to herself that when the king comes to visit, he will not leave the castle alive. She makes sure that she gets rid of all obstacles that may prevent her evil plan by persuading Macbeth into killing the king and framing others so that Lady Macbeth and Macbeth look innocent. They decided to act as though they are just as shocked as everybody else and pretend to be deeply hurt.
As it turns out Lady Macbeth does have a soft spot because she does feel guilt and she seems doubtful in her plans the minute the deed has been done. She was just so distracted by the "beautiful" thought of becoming queen and receiving all the privileges of ruling the kingdom that when the king was killed she realized that there was no going back, all these thought out plans were now put to action and there was no way that they could undo the murder. Lady Macbeth has a lot of courage to be able to do something so evil, but the fact that she is doing it all for herself makes her seem like less of a person. Although she feels the same guilt and disgust as any normal person may feel, there is still many more parts throughout the play where Lady Macbeth proves herself to be wicked.
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