Lady Macbeth Dynamic Character

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Lady Macbeth is considered one of Shakespeare’s most vicious female characters he has created and placed in his plays. She is the wife of Macbeth, the main character and arguably the antagonist (Lady Macbeth being the runner up), and is undoubtedly the most ruthless lady in this play. However, Lady Macbeth dark mind set is ultimately altered due to the guilt eating away from her actions in act 1 when she assists her husband with the murder of King Duncan. As the play progress the reader sees how Lady Macbeth is a very dynamic character, starting out as a determined, heartless wife, and ending as a worrying, remorseful and ultimately dead woman. When Lady Macbeth is first introduced her confidence and conquering characteristics are easily spotted. Once Macbeth explains to his spouse about the witch’s…show more content…
By a servant and a doctor in the castle, Lady Macbeth is found sleepwalking through the corridors, murmuring to herself about the murder of Duncan and the blood that was on her hands after smearing it on the guards. “Out damned spot! Out, I say!” (5, 1, 31) she said as she walked around rubbing her hands. Lady Macbeth also raised her hands to her nose and said “Here’s the smell of the blood still:” (5, 1, 43). Foreseeing the future, she understands that the burden will never leave her, like how the blood will never leave her hands. Lady Macbeths state of mind and healthy progressively gets worse and her nervousness and remorse take over. Macbeth sends for a doctor to cure her but the doctor basically tells him he does not know cure moral problems and that “Therein the patient must minister to himself.” (5, 3, 46). Later while Macbeth is in battle a messenger appears and tells him that his wife has died. Though it is not clear how she died, the reader can presume that she had either committed suicide or had died due to all the grief she

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