In Shakespeare’s famous tragedy Macbeth is known for being one of Shakespeare’s more unusual plays he’s written. It’s not the play itself that is unusual but character wise. The gender roles play a major part in this show. Lady Macbeth is the one that thinks more malicious in the beginning when she wants to murder King Duncan. In act 1 scene 5 Lady Macbeth gives her famous speech, “Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, that no compunctious visiting of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, and take my milk for gall, …show more content…
She knows her husband is too weak to do the task of killing Duncan, so she wants more men like qualities that won’t allow her to feel remorse or sympathy for him. I think the fact that Lady Macbeth defines killing as a masculine role shows that her husband is more of the feminine one so Lady Macbeth does the killing for him. She was more into taking action instead of thinking about killing Duncan like Macbeth, making Lady Macbeth unlike any other female role in Shakespeare’s plays where they are the heroine and the damsel in distress. It’s quite ironic how in the beginning Macbeth was so scared to kill someone and Lady Macbeth was all for it wanting to do it but by the end of the show it’s completely opposite. While the play progresses you see a major character change in Macbeth and his wife. Macbeth is the king and he has been killing people left and right with no problem, he killed his best friend and Macduff’s wife and kids. While Lady Macbeth is feeling more and more guilty about the murder and the guilt from this eventually leads to her suicide. Macbeth hears about his wife dying and says this