Things people want is not what they necessarily need. It is understandable if an individual wants to better themselves by trying to achieve a goal, but cheating on it, causes the person to not enjoy their accomplishment. Shakespeare highlights this in his play The Tragedy of Macbeth when Lady Macbeth, a wicked individual turns, paranoid after she takes part in the foul assassination of Duncan. This shows how the rise of fame can quickly come crashing down when a person cheats. Over the course of the play, power causes Lady Macbeth to change from being wickedness to fearful which leads to her death.
Towards the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth exudes wickedness when interacting with Macbeth. Lady Macbeth uses her skills of deception to persuade Macbeth into killing Duncan by giving him repeated tips on how he should gain the trust of Duncan by looking “like th’innocent flower” but being “the serpent under’t”(i.v. 60-63). Her message to Macbeth represents her true character, due to how she persistently harasses Macbeth into assassinating
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Lady Macbeth has become so broken at the end of the play she started to sleepwalk and hearing “knocking at the gate”(v.i 45). The gates, according to Lady Macbeth’s unconscious state, stands for whether she will take the option to live or die. Having the gate out in the open shows how she has a desire to go to the afterlife to live. Lady Macbeth finally ends her life which is a big scare since she is having someone else say that she is dead point out “The Queen” is now “dead”(v.v.17). The role of being Queen with the power and the guilt of Duncan’s murder was too much for Lady Macbeth to handle so she finally does the deed that ends all of the sufferings and kills herself. Even though she got what she thought she wanted she could not even appreciate the title since she did not get it