Lady Macbeth – Human Weakness

Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeares play Macbeth is a character who suffers greatly in because of her human weakness, which is her vaulting ambition. This ambition is not for her, but for her preserve. This woman, who seemed so in control at the beginning of the okay, only(prenominal) cared for her husband and his success, later becomes so consumed with guilt and remorse that it results in her tragic death. Through the discussion of characterisation and lkey scenes, I sh each reveal that Lady Macbeths human mistake is not only a major contributor to the ruthlessness of her husband but creates a bulky influence in how the play unfolds.The effect of Lady Macbeths ambition and compassion towards her devoted husband is immediately shown in the first scene of which she appears. When she receives a letter from Macbeth informing her on his meeting with the terzetto witches, who they promise him that he all(a)ow for be king. This is, in Lady Macbeths eyes, his rightful position and by her first words, Glamis art thou cawdor/ and shalt be what thou art promised makes us instantly recognise that she will stop at no issue to make sure that he gets what she feels Macbeth deserves.So when Lady Macbeths disturbing soliloquy about her becoming un-womanly to make sure her plan to kill Duncan will not fail, is not all of a surprise. She calls upon the spirits of evil in her quest to become completely absent of feeling and emotion. germ you spirits, which tend on mortal vox populis/ unsex me here and fill me from the crown to toe/ top-full of direst cruelty. She wishes for all her innate womanly qualities to disappear and replace it with evil Come to my womans breasts and take my milk for gall.She calls upon the evil spirits to prevent her in failing her mission to make her husband king. no computions visiting of nature/ shall shake my fell purpose. She asks for Come thick night, and pall thee to the dunnest smoke of inferno to hide her malicious thoughts and plans fro m everyone. As well as wishing for herself to become overwhelmed with ambition and callousness, she wants her husband to do the same. As in the same soliloquy she states her concerns for Macbeth that his soul is too full of the milk of human benignancy/ to catch the nearest way.This means that she thinks that Macbeths natural kindness is a bad thing and that he would be unable to murder Duncan, the quickest way to become king. However, when Macbeth returns home from fighting he is greeted with the plan to kill Duncan. At first he refuses to co-operate but his wife manipulates him to change his mind. She throws at him insults, much(prenominal) as once you durst do it, then you were a man and to call a man who mediocre fought bravely for his king a coward in a mighty insult. She in addition throws at him From this time such(prenominal) I account thy love.At the end, in order to make sure Macbeth does commit the unnatural proceeding she tells him a disturbing image of her with her newborn child And dashd the brains out, had I so sworn as you. up to now so, if Lady Macbeth was a heartless, truly selfishly ambitious and a ruthless character then she would not have to call upon spirits to help become evil and take all her womanly qualities. consequently implying that she has womanly qualities that she wants rid of. And Shakespear makes us weary of this by allowing her to speak her thoughts and agonys but only when Macbeth is not around.When Macbeth commits the murder, in Act 2, he is truly distraught and cannot think correctly and brings back the occupation laden daggers with him. So Lady Macbeth, again, takes control of the situation. Earlier in the scene Lady Macbeth, who we first thought would commit the murder could not as had he not resembled my father as he slept/ Id had done it. This shows flaw in her ruthlessness and shows that her calling of evil did not completely work. It also shows that her human weakness, has weakness in itself. However she coll ects herself and brings the daggers back to Duncans body. To do this must have interpreted super human strength.