Comparing Leadership In Macbeth And Aubrey Plaza

Being a leader does not dictate whether someone is good or evil. In the course of humanity, the worst leaders as well as the best leaders have changed the world. Both actress Aubrey Plaza and Lady Macbeth are examples of leaders. Aubrey is determined as well as ready to commit to any bit to prove her point or demonstrate her character. Lady Macbeth in the same way is willing to go to any extent to make change happen and prove her ethics. Lets begin with Aubrey Plaza and her personality, digging deeper into an “awkward”, “boring” woman who has many big plans and ideas for her life as an aspiring leader. Aubrey Plaza shows leadership in the way she presents herself and her dreams. According to Time news “I was working with a determined and profoundly

Furthermore, in an interview done in fall of 2022 about a controversial character she played that was not like normal characters she says the reason she liked the script so much was because “There aren’t a lot of female characters that take on that antihero status, because audiences are used to seeing female characters that they have to like” (Foggatt, The New Yorker). The interviewer had asked her about a character she was playing in a movie and she explained that she wanted to play the character just as a normal person. She wanted that character to take on the antihero status because it is different. She did not want her character to be another character that everyone likes because the character feeds a gaze. Lady Macbeth is a character that definitely does not feed a gaze and is 100% true to herself and her plans, no matter how evil they are. In the play, “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” written by William Shakespeare, the character Lady Macbeth shares similar “anti-hero” characteristics when it comes to her dreams and commitments that Aubrey Plaza enjoys playing because characters like her speak their

In this scene Lady Macbeth is explaining to Macbeth that she would do even as much as killing her baby if she promised to do it for Macbeth. She tells Macbeth that because he was doubting his ability to carry out the plan to kill Duncan but had sworn to his wife that he would. Aubrey Plaza liked to play her anti-hero character because it was not what “normal” people would be drawn to. Lady Macbeth is certainly not normal, but she had a dream to kill Duncan and expresses that she is serious about this commitment in a cruel way. In addition to Lady Macbeth being serious about her dreams, she also goes on to carry out the rest of the execution to make sure the job of killing the king was done. “Give me the daggers”. The sleeping and the dead are but pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil.” (Shakespeare 2.2.52-54). She had a plan to plant the daggers her husband used to kill Duncan on the servants so they would seem guilty of killing the king. Macbeth could not do it himself, so she had to put the plan in her own