How Is Lady Macbeth Selfish

Some may want all power at any cost. Many may do the wrong decision rather than taking the right path. They would not care if anybody gets hurt, they just want it all. Like in the play Macbeth by Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth who is ambitious, manipulative, ruthless, weak.

Lady Macbeth, after reading the letter from her husband about what the three witches told him she has this desire for becoming queen and making Macbeth king. Her thought immediately turns to kill King Duncan no matter what. So her ambitious self is taking over. When she is saying, “yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o th milk of human kindness to catch nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, art not without ambition, buy without the illness should attend it.”(1.5.15-20).

Lady Macbeth can be also very manipulative as when she tells her husband “wouldst thou have that which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem, letting “I dare not” wait upon “would”, like the poor cat I’ th’ adage? (1.7.42-46). The way she is telling him that he is not man enough and he does not have what it takes to be a “real man”. So she makes him go as it is plan.
Lady Macbeth was manipulative, which lead her to be a ruthless person.

When Macbeth enters in the room with the blood on his hands and with the daggers. Macbeth shows some remorse, but Lady Macbeth says, “A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight". (2.2.20-21). Which she is not feeling much about his feelings. So she goes and put the daggers back. Also when she says that he should not be so upset by the blood on his hands; "A little water clears us of this deed.How easy is it, then! Your constancy Hath left you unattended". (2.2 .67-69). That he has nothing to worry about because she told him that "My hands are of your color, but I shame To wear a heart so white".(2.2.64-65). That is ok what they have done because what is done is done.

Later on lady Macbeth starts to lose it she is now going crazy. She is sleepwalking and muttering about the murder of King Duncan. As she is sleepwalking she is acting the scene and saying Out, damned spot! Out, I say!.. will these hands ne'er be clean? … Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. (5.1.25-40). She is reliving the scene when she is motion washing her hands. Now she is feeling the guilt and showing remorse. So she can not take it no more and can't sleep at all so she

dies.
Therefore, it is better to think twice before doing something bad because it all come back to haunt you soon or later. As for Lady Macbeth did by her ambitious self that lead her into a tragedy.