LADY MACBETH

LADY MACBETH

1. Persuasive and Manipulative

   • Lady Macbeth is the reason why Macbeth murdered King Duncan. She makes him seem powerless
   • Protective over the throne and eager to get it - more than Macbeth is

2. DRIVES HERSELF TO COMITT SUICIDE

   • Ambition played a massive role in Lady Macbeth's death.
   • Her guilty conscience haunted she got karma for all the evils deeds she committed and as a results, she bagan to sleep walk and have started to see things.
   • Also, she was desperately trying to wash away an invisible bloodstain
   • Lady Macbeth's sensitivity got too weak and she reaches the point where she can no longer cope. She then suppose

3. LIVES IN A PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY

   • Because she is given her husbands name, instead of her own name, the fact that she lives in a patriarchal society is. highlighted.

4. This theme of the relationship between gender and power is key to Lady Macbeth’s character: her husband implies that she is a masculine soul inhabiting a female body, which seems to link masculinity to ambition and violence

   • Shakespeare, however, seems to use her, and the witches, to undercut Macbeth’s idea that “undaunted mettle should compose / Nothing but males” (1.7.73–74).
   • These crafty women use female methods of achieving power—that is, manipulation—to further their supposedly male ambitions. Women, the play implies, can be as ambitious and cruel as men, yet social constraints deny them the means to pursue these ambitions on their own.