Morals are concerns of right and wrong in human behavior, but certainly, there is a lot more to it than that. Many situations create controversy because of the unclear, or gray, areas of its morals, including suicide. The play Macbeth by William Shakespeare is easily one of conflicting morals, greed and ambition run rampant causing characters to commit deeds of bad moral standing. Specifically one of the characters, Lady Macbeth, struggles to understand her own, as what she presents to others and what she truly believes do not coincide, which leads her to commit suicide because of it. Firstly, Lady Macbeth presents a moral opposition to her husband during the beginning of the play. When the opportunity to kill King Duncan and put Macbeth on the throne arises, she does not hesitate. In fact, she immediately knows that Macbeth will not be able to succeed without her words, …show more content…
Lady Macbeth made sure to convince her husband to commit the deed of killing Duncan, quite adamantly. Even though she had compared his strength of courage to hers, as mentioned earlier, she still does not take the situation into her own hands. Lady Macbeth says during a soliloquy “Had he not resembled/ My father as he slept, I had done’t” (2.2.11-12) this is the first instance where the reader can see a different side of her, one who admits to weakness. Yet this doesn’t last for long because once Macbeth returns with the news that he has killed Duncan she berates him once more for fearing that they may be caught by saying, “You do unbend your noble strength to think/ So brainsickly of things” (2.2.45-46). It is after this that Lady Macbeth takes the daggers from Macbeth and goes to clean them off, which in turn leaves her hand coated in Duncan’s blood. She again makes a jab at Macbeth’s courage “My hands are of your color, but I shame/ To wear a heart so white” (2.2.