Lady Macbeth's Personality

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Macbeth’s Profile In the Macbeth by Shakespeare, I will be analysing the character Macbeth throughout the story. Macbeth has so interesting character traits one of them is his Selfishness. Macbeth shows that he is incredibly selfish many times in the story and example of this is when he killed King Duncan so he could take the throne from him for his own personal gain. A part in story that shows this is “I am a thane of Cawdor: if good, why do I yielded to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair.” in this quote Macbeth starts to believe in the prophecy from the weird sisters; further driving him to kill King Duncan out of greed and selfishness.
A physical trait about Macbeth is his strength which makes him a great warrior. Macbeth …show more content…

I think he goes through these changes because of Lady Macbeth because she is a very manipulative personality. At first Macbeth is a great soldier that is just following orders and as time went on and he was thinking about killing King Duncan he knew it was a bad idea and it would be wrong but Lady M manipulated him into do it which ended in a evil choice by Macbeth. Some evidence of this is when they are talking about the future murder and Lady M said “what beast was’t then that made you break this enterprise to me? When your durst do it, then you were a man, And to be more than you were, you would be so much more man”. Basically saying you wanted to kill the King before and if you don’t want to anymore you won't be a man. So this his her manipulating him into killing the king. That is how I think Lady M help change …show more content…

I feel he didn’t learn a lesson throughout the story because he felt that he was right and still ruled like a tyrant up until his death at Other characters views on Macbeth. They were positive and negative; people the end of the story. saw him as a great warrior and leader that later turned into a great tyrant in others eyes. Some characters views are Lady Macbeth’s view was positive; she loved him, Banquo suspected that Macbeth would do evil things and Macduff hated him; for good reason he killed his family. Those are some views of Macbeth.
My opinion on Macbeth is he his a good example of a “bad guy” in a story and he truly felt like one. Now about his personality I feel that he was a person that really wanted something and would do anything in his power to achieve his goal. Now if he put that attitude somewhere else instead of the want for power and greed he could have been a really great person. Other then that he was a great

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