Lady Macbeth's Multifaceted Character

In today’s world power can be very corruptible in so many ways, shapes, and forms. The expression power corrupts is one of many themes in the story of Macbeth. Maybe power isn’t corruptible, maybe it’s the person that uses their power to control others in a way that only creates a good impact for themselves. This also makes them corruptible without noticing, and it makes them a bit heartless. The theme that power corrupts expresses its way through Macbeth is when: Macbeth’s wife plans all of the killings in order to possess power, and also when Macbeth becomes a complete murderer in order to maintain his power and titles.

How does Lady Macbeth change over the course of the play? Over the course of the play the characters of both Macbeth and his wife Lady Macbeth develop intensively. They share similar ambitions, but it is Lady Macbeth who dares to do unspeakable things to accomplish them. This creates great conflict within Lady Macbeth who does not conform to the traditional female stereotypes of her epoch.

In the beginning Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Lady Macbeth was a ruthless and masculine woman. She showed the audience that, mentally and emotionally, she was stronger than Macbeth. Although as the story started to continue the audience began to see that she was becoming mentally insane. Throughout the story there was also evidence of shakespeare showing the more masculinity you had the more cuel you became.

Lady Macbeth, Macbeth’s right hand woman is one of Shakespeare's most famous female characters. She is portrayed by society and critiques as an evil, horrible person as it was her idea to kill Duncan. Others such as I believe, Lady Macbeth is a multifaceted character as she has many different traits contrary to just pure evil. She has an immense amount of control, ambition and guilt. These three traits correlate with one another to form the unique individual Lady Macbeth is.

Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare from 1599-1606. It is believed that it was first performed in the year 1606 at Hampton Court Palace before King James I and his guests. One of the unfamiliar facts about Macbeth is that the real Macbeth also existed. He was the king of Scotland between 1040 -1057. He also killed Duncan to become a king, but Shakespeare did not use all the historical facts, just the basic elements.

The overcast skies forewarned of the storm to come. The grey clouds rumbled treason and the wild wolves howled their distress. Rough winds wreaked havoc on the brittle branches of the oak trees in Birnam Wood, but not even this could compare to the turmoil in the new queen’s mind. In her chambers, Lady Macbeth’s frantic, bloodshot eyes darted across the shadowed room like a wild animal.

Name: Sameer Macbeth Literary Essay Outline My chosen essay topic is: Lady Macbeth's character is depicted and developed as a strong, independent and unflinching women in the play My thesis statement is: Is Lady Macbeth truly the brave-intelligent women she portrays herself to be ? So what?!

Within this excerpt from William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Lady Macbeth gives a monologue expressing her dark desires. Lady Macbeth’s desire for the removal of her nurturing qualities to murder King Duncan is expressed through alliteration, metaphors, and pleading diction. The alliteration and metaphors used by Lady Macbeth accentuate her desires. Speaking to spirits, she requests, “unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top- full of direst cruelty”.

Due to ambition most of humanities’ greatest triumphs would not be possible, but it is also important to understand that uncontrolled ambition is the cause of humanities’ ultimate downfall. Throughout Shakespeare’s Macbeth the most crucial theme is ambition. This is shown all through the play by the Weird Sister’s prophecy, Lady Macbeth’s desires, and the consequences of uncontrolled ambition. Ambition is a critical theme in Macbeth it is illustrated by the weird sister’s prophecies that leads to the development of ambition for Macbeth.

“What’s done cannot be undone.” (Macbeth V, i, 62, 63) This fact often changes one’s self-perception when an offense is committed and guilt begins to set in. When a person’s self-perception changes, an individual’s thoughts begin to change because their focus has shifted. In William Shakespeare’s