Lady Macbeth, the lead protagonist's wife in the play 'Macbeth', is widely considered to be the evilest character in any of Shakespeare's plays. The character has a sense of indiscriminating ruthlessness about her in the early stages of the play, but regardless of the facade she routinely plays, he inevitably meets her demise in Act 5 Scene 5.
Lady Macbeth first appears first in Act one Scene five, reading one of her husbands letters, referring to the prophecies of the witches. She reads the letter aside to the audience. After reading the letter, she resolves that Duncan, the Scottish king, must be murdered.
This is the first example of the unreasonable state of mind the character seems to be trapped in. She seems to have an unearthly haste about her, attempting to persuade Macbeth to murder Duncan at first chance. She is aware that Macbeth is too kind and compassionate to kill the king, and is afraid that he will miss this opportunity to take the throne as she says he is "too full o' th' milk of human kindness".
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Macbeth begins to have a mental breakdown considering all of the consequences of his actions, and upon hearing that he does not want to kill Duncan, Lady Macbeth shows her true colors and attempts, with success, to bully Macbeth into committing the ultimate act of treason. She states to the audience that she would have killed the king but was afraid to as he looked too alike her father while sleeping, showing a slight glimmer of compassion, even if only for her closest