Shakespeare presents many people as being culpable for the terrible crimes in the play. From the very start of the play he presents Macbeth as a tragic hero like character with his great flaw being his ambition and his desire to fulfill what the witches had told him. The witches introduced the idea from the Jacobean perspective as they heavily believed in a greater power of evil in the world – they truly believed that witches were real. They also believed in fate, which is shown by Shakespeare when the witches chose Macbeth out of everyone to become Thane of Cawdor and King. It creates the idea that everything is predestined and meant to be chosen from this higher power of evil. We still believe in these sort of things to this day, however, …show more content…
Throughout the play, she shows even more ambition for power than Macbeth and shows she’ll do anything to get there. She uses manipulation to get her own way with Macbeth and therefore drives him to commit the horrible crimes. She also becomes in touch with the evil side of the play after reading her letter from Macbeth when she summons spirits. In the play, Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as an evil and powerful woman, contrasting the traditional Jacobean ideas of what a woman should be. He also uses juxtaposition when Lady Macbeth says “Take my milk for gall and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell”. The words milk and gall juxtapose as milk symbolizes a new life and children, however gall is a symbol of death and poison. Lady Macbeth is asking for her milk, which would be used for her babies, to be changed for the poisonous gall. In this quote, she makes a pact with the devil and wants to become like the devil, showing she has full control and she wants to become this. In addition to this, Lady Macbeth also uses the power of manipulation against Macbeth “Your hand, your