Lady Macbeth Research Paper

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The Queen of Troubles
While researching text, reading Books, and watching many movies and plays about Macbeth, it was clear that it was one of Shakespeare’s bloodiest plays. Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's shortest tragedies. It tells the story of Macbeth, a brave Scottish general, who is endowed by 3 witches, who gave a prophecy, that professes his claim to become king of Scotland. Taken over by ambition and splurged to action by his wife, Macbeth allows himself to be persuaded by his ambitious wife, who realizes that regicide is the quickest way to achieve the destiny that her husband has been promised. Eventually, Macbeth takes the throne for himself murdering King Duncan.

Lady Macbeth, a deeply ambitious woman who lusts for power and …show more content…

She was madly in love with her husband, but fell to her own demise. Macbeth couldn’t stay away from the greed for her burning ambition to be queen. Lady Macbeth persistently taunts her husband for his lack of courage. She would do anything and everything to become queen, and make her husband king of Scotland. Early in the play Lady Macbeth is presented as a committed wife who knows her husbands cons and believes she can help succeed to take over the kingdom. She then changes to an evil, demonic-like women when she calls on the evil spirits using language thats supernatural and death to lose her feminine nature. The third face of Lady Macbeth we see is a cunning and controlling wife who takes over and plans the murder of …show more content…

Macbeth’s behavior changes dramatically, and her motives swing. This is why I diagnose Macbeth with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). She becomes mentally deranged, a mere shadow of her former commanding self, gibbering in Act V, Scene 1 as she "confesses" her part in the murder. Her death is the event that causes Macbeth to ruminate for one last time, to mumble something so crazed, and mortality in the speech "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow". Lady Macbeth recreates scenes where she has flashbacks, and feelings of the traumatic events from all the bloodshed and evil happenings all over again. She was accompanied by depression, anxiety, and moments where she loses touch with reality. Sequentially, she falls apart, losing at her own game. During the banquet, having chided her husband (Act III, Scene 4), the way the events exceled, it became too much for her, causing her to break down overtime. In saying that, this is why I diagnose her with

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