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Comparing Lady Macbeth And Lady Macbeth

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Comparing lady macbeth and macbeth as they were murders and dangerous because society views them as normal people, Macbeth wanted to be king and Lady Macbeth wanted the whole power and they killed the king to gain their power. Lady Macbeth is a woman who is not frighten to take the authority over her actions. She was one and only, her actions made guys fall in love with her. This quote describes how her versions of reality were, “Lady macbeth Your face, my Thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue; look like th ' innocent flower, But be the serpent under 't” (1.5.73-78).
Lady macbeth was telling this to her husband, describing the way he should act when receiving King Duncan. Lady Macbeth was an expert on plotting murders, that 's why she was known as a ruthless with ambition, but eventually at the end of the literature she fails the case of being hard and heartless. She had so many murder cases that the murders would appear in ghost mode and would haunt her anywhere she would go. There was days where she ended up talking to herself, after all she couldn 't handle it any longer, Lady Macbeth turn out committing a suicide. On the other hand, the three witches that appeared on Act 1, they agreed to meet with Macbeth with a prophecy of him being king. The prophecies have gave Macbeth the power or obsession to listen what the witches were saying of him being king.

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