How Does Lady Macbeth Change Throughout The Play

“Look like th’innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t” (Act 1. SC. 6. 75). In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare we get to see many changes in lots of people. One in particular that stood out the most was Lady Macbeth. She gradually changed from being super masculine to being timid and scared. She lets her guilt catch up to her which ultimately leads to her downfall and death. She is one of the reasons Macbeth died as well. She was the devil on his shoulder the entire play. This is what Shakespeare wanted to portray her as. He wanted to show her progression into becoming the ultimate downfall and lead to death of both her and her partner. In the beginning of the play, we get to see Lady Macbeth as a masculine, manipulative, and cocky person. She is also the one who is telling Macbeth who to kill and how. Lady Macbeth wishes she would be a man so she whould have the strength kill King Duncan. We can see this when she says “Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to

She has descended into madness and despair, unable to cope with the guilt built up from her and Macbeth actions taken earlier in the play. In the end she ultimately takes her own life, a victim of the very ambition and desire for power and wealth. Her death is a powerful reminder of the consequences of unchecked ambition and the danger of ingnoring one’s conscience. We can see in this quote when she descended into her craziness, “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?” (Act 5. S.C. 1. 37). This depicts how she descened into her madness. She recalls all of her killings and how the blood was never washed away and how it had stained her hands blood