Lady Macbeth is the more dominant partner who is able to control him and persuade him to do things he doesn’t want to. The largest influence to his change in personality is Lady Macbeth. His submissive personality makes his easy for Lady Macbeth to do whatever she pleases with him. It is alos partly his fault because he is very submissive and gentle, making him a very easy target to control. By making him feel confident, Macbeth feels as if he is invincible. Also, the fake apparations the witches and Hecate create give Macbeth too much confidence in his plans. If the witches didn’t toy with him, maybe he would become king “naturally” instead of committing all the ludicrous murders of innocent people. However I feel that he also brought this upon himself. I feel empathy for Macbeth because his dramatic change in personality in scene 5, line 17-28 is mostly due to Lady Macbeth and the witches. Plus Macbeth goes on to kill more people that are close to him (like Banquo), making him lose his sub-conscious thinking. He also becomes a person who feels that life is unimportant, and everyday “creeps at this petty pace” (scene 5, line 20) he sees no reason to live anymore and each persons impact on the world “signifies nothing”(scene 5, line 28). I wasn’t surprised with Macbeth’s personality change in the final act because anyone who is forced to kill a close friend will have become deeply affected by it. He feels no remorse when Lady Macbeth is dead, saying that she was going to die anyway. In scene 5 line 17, he says, “she should have died hereafter” when he hears about Lady Macbeth’s suicide. He has no emotion and does not care anymore what happens to him. The fact that Macbeth is a tragedy may be largely attributed to her actions, her schemes, and that she succumbed to these very actions and schemes.In the final act of Macbeth, he becomes an cold, ruthless killer. She takes advice from the witches, who may not even have been telling the truth. This is because she acts on instincts rather than logically thinking through possible choices when she decides to kill a handful of other characters in order to become queen. In conclusion, Lady Macbeth's personality and ambitions change throughout Macbeth. When she says "damned spot", she is not just talking about the imaginary bloodstain on her hand she is also using it as a metaphor for the fact that she has guilt in her heart that will not go away. Hell is murky!-Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?-Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him" (5.1.25-29). She says, " Out, damned spot! Out, I say!-One, two. In Act 5, Scene 1, she retells the story of Duncan's murder. She becomes so guilt ridden and contrite that she begins to hallucinate and slowly goes insane. Ultimately, Lady Macbeth's attitude towards her actions changes. However, people are seldom happy with what they wish for. Lady Macbeth now has the royalty that she has always wanted. It seems as though the witches' prophecies have been fulfilled. They then kill Duncan and become king and queen of Scotland. They kill Malcolm and Macduff in order to bring Macbeth closer to kingship, but Lady Macbeth still shows no remorse for her horrible doings. She immediately starts imagining her life as Queen of Scotland and starts plotting to kill anyone who gets in her husband's way.Īs the story goes on, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth act out Lady Macbeth's plan to kill Duncan and seize his throne. When Macbeth returns from speaking with the three witches and tells Lady Macbeth about their prophecy that he will be Thane of Cawdor, Thane of Glamis and King of Scotland, Lady Macbeth is elated. However, it is important to remember that looks can be deceiving. Lady Macbeth changes from Macbeth's ambitious, power hungry wife into a contrite, guilt-ridden deranged person.Īt the beginning of the story, Lady Macbeth seems like a pretty average, mentally stable wife of a noble. In Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth is very central to the development of the plot of the story.
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