Lady Macbeth is known to be one of the most frightening and challenging characters in the play Macbeth. The play starts with Macbeth being told his destiny to become the Thane of Cawdor and when Lady Macbeth finds out she is instantly drawn to the likeness of being the Queen of Cawdor. In order to achieve this, she and Macbeth come up with a plan to kill Duncan and obtain his power. Once he is dead, rumors spread about who the murderer really is. As this starts to build, so does the pressure and guilt Lady Macbeth feels as she confesses about her role in the murder. This leads her to kill herself and Macbeth to be left alone to deal with the repercussions and tragedy that is to come. An overconfident Macbeth takes on Macduff and his army and loses. The prophecy told by the three witches has been fulfilled …show more content…
Lady Macbeth is an important character in the play as an ambitious, driven, and manipulative female lead. Lady Macbeth is Macbeth’s wife, as well as the granddaughter of Malcolm II. She is the Queen of Glandis and doesn’t mind her role until she finds out Macbeth is said to become the Thane of Cawdor, this drives her into a spiral of power where her ambition and need to rule overtakes her judgment. “Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it,”(Macbeth 1.5.19-20) She believes she is more a man than Macbeth will ever be and derives a plan to kill King Duncan so she can become the queen of Cawdor. She then tells Macbeth “Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye.”(Macbeth 1.5.74) She wants him to act nice to Duncan so she can trick him and “dispose” of him. This shows her ambition to get him out of her way, along with how easy it is for her to manipulate those around her. Lady Macbeth portrays many different personalities with the different people that she interacts