Lady Macbeth: The Real Killer

There is one thing that all men must admit if they have ever associated with a female, they are extremely persuasive over men. Now, not all men may not go as far to kill another human being as Macbeth did just because a woman told them to, but there is no denying that they have some control over men. This can be extremely true when women start to attack a man’s “manliness.” This seemed to be one of Lady Macbeth’s biggest weapons. With Lady Macbeth using her powers like this I do believe that she really is worse than her husband. Some may say that she is not the one who really killed her so she can’t be worse, but men know what women can make do, especially by just simply hitting their weak spot and calling out their manhood. She also changes quite a bit throughout the whole play. She does not stand by what she originally says, this makes her even worse.

Throughout the whole play Lady Macbeth only thinks about one person, and that's herself. All she cares about is becoming the Queen. She doesn't even care that to become the Queen, she has to make her husband kill the present King. She does not think about the consequences that can happen to her or to her husband.

When Lady Macbeth first receives the letter from Macbeth that states his intentions of killing Duncan to become king, she believes that he is too “good” to do it. She says he is “too full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way.” (I.V.16-17) She is saying that Macbeth does not have it in him to go through with what he wants to do. This is the first time she starts to question how much of a man he is. She puts off a face that makes her seem like she is more manly than what Macbeth is. By the end of this scene though she backs out of it and can't kill him...

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...ut a doubt, thee most evil character in this play. She manipulates her husband, who before this was a good, noble warrior, into a murderer. The only reason she does this too is because she is caring only for herself. She thinks of no consequences that could happen to her husband, she only thinks of becoming the Queen. No murders would have ever taken place if it were not for her. She is so bad that when Macbeth has his freak out at their dinner, she does not try to comfort him, but to only continue to cut him down and be rude to him. She is also the one who blows their cover when her head begins to mess with her and she declares that her and her husband are the true murderers. It is obvious by the end of this that Lady Macbeth is the real killer.

Works Cited

Shakespeare, William, and John Crowther. No fear shakespeare: macbeth.. NEW YORK: Spark, 2003. Print.