Misunderstood In Macbeth

There is a difference between those who are evil, and those who are just misunderstood. In the beginning of the play Macbeth by Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth appeared to be evil because she was asking the spirits to make her evil so she can murder King Duncan. In the end of the play she could not handle the guilt she felt, and she killed herself. Even though she she appears to be evil, she is just misunderstood.

Although Lady Macbeth seemed evil and harsh at the beginning of the play, she gets taken over by her guilt in the end. In the beginning, she was praying to spirits to give her evilness and to take away what makes her a woman. “Come, you spirits that serve the thoughts of mortals: rid me of the natural tenderness of my sex and fill me from head to toe with direst cruelty!” (I,v, 39-42) Lady Macbeth was asking the spirits to fill her with evilness and get rid of her woman like qualities. If she had the qualities of an evil person, then she would not have to ask the spirits to help her gain evilness. Towards the end of the play, she began to sleep walk throughout the night, and had hallucinations of blood on her hands from the murder. The guilt was taking over her, which lead her to kill herself. “And his fiendish queen, who took her own life...” (Act 5, Scene 7, 95-96) Those who

However, she becomes less cruel and consumed with guilt towards the end of the play. In the beginning she wanted to be the one to kill King Duncan. When she saw him asleep, she manipulated Macbeth to do it instead because he looked like her father. “If Duncan hadn’t looked like my father in his sleep, I’d have done it myself.” (2,II,12-13), Lady Macbeth must have a heart and be nice enough to not kill someone that looks like her father. If she was evil, nothing would stop her from committing the murder to get what she wants. While some say she is evil from how she acted in the beginning, she truly is just misunderstood and has a