Choices In Lady Macbeth By William Shakespeare

The choices an individual makes can have a significant impact on their lives. This can be seen in the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare; it shows that Macbeth keeps making poor decisions combined with the lack of character can have major consequences. This is not limited to Macbeth's choices but is shown how decisions can have notable impact on multiple of the characters welfare. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are two provident displays that suggest that’s one’s actions on oneself or others, while knowing the consequences that could have arisen from the actions from the beginning

Macbeth is a tragic hero who destroyed himself with his own selfish decisions. At the beginning he was to be portrayed as this courageous and honorable hero of Scotland,

She was fearful that Macbeth wouldn’t have the courage to kill the king to take the throne for himself. She antagonizes him by mocking his masculinity when it comes to killing Duncan. “Infirm of purpose!” Macbeth (Shakespeare 2.2.63). When Lady Macbeth was introduced, she was ambitious and cold-hearted, she wanted her femininity stripped away and be given the strength, courage, and respect of a man. “Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose nor keep peace between the effect and it! Come, think night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell That my knee knife see not the wound it makes Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry, “Hold, Hold”.” Macbeth (Shakespeare 1.5.43). She was the one that swayed Macbeth to murder Duncan. When Macbeth had the doubt in himself about killing the king of Scotland, she mocked him for being cowardice. “When you durst do it,” she says “then you were a man” Macbeth (Shakespeare 1.7. 54) so, she formulated the plan for killing king Duncan but did not partake. It was her desire for power and her choices that put Macbeth on the path of blood and violence. Her decision to use her influence and manipulation skills on Macbeth to kill Duncan caused her mental and physical health to decline by a significant amount for the guilt of her husband. “Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One - two – why, then, ‘tis time to do’t. – Hell is murky. – Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and afeard! What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?” Macbeth (Shakespeare 5.1. 30) These choices combined with guilt lead to her committing