Effects Of Lady Macbeth

Because of this he also killed the servants. When told of Banquo's death he is seemingly delighted but upon return he sees Banquo's ghost. Macbeth’s repressed guilt shows up as a ghost that steals his seat from him. He tells him to leave and cease bothering him, representing how he doesn't want to feel guilty but the ghost doesn't leave until Lady Macbeth takes him out of the room. Macbeth’s guilt pressures him to face consequences and shows his lack of

In my experiences, depression is common among those with guilt. Depression is a deep and severe condition that can affect a person´s will to live. Lady Macbeth, the newly appointed queen and wife to King Macbeth has shown signs of severe depression and warning signs of suicide. I have worked with the Queen’s doctor to find sufficient and specialized treatment for her. Lady Macbeth organized the death of the King of Scotland as well as other acts that have caused her immense distress and grief due to this experience.

Shakespeare employs blood to accentuate how guilt ultimately drives Lady Macbeth’s implied suicide. Between Macbeth receiving the initial prophecy and the death of Banquo, Lady Macbeth does not actively exhibit any remorseful qualities, such as guilt or regret. However, before the final battle, she subconsciously reveals her fears, acting and speaking in her sleep. Holding a taper, she repeats an “accustomed action” of “washing her hands”; she agonizes that her “hands [will] ne’er be clean” no matter what “perfumes of Arabia” she uses (Shakespeare 5.1.24-25, 5.1.37, 5.1.43). Contrary to the once ambitious and assertive character, Lady Macbeth is now plagued by anguish; she stresses that the blood of Duncan, Banquo, and Macduff’s family will never fully wash out–she is unable to cleanse her hands.

She is able to see through the morality of death and is completely focused on her own ambition for Macbeth to become King, and is willing to do whatever’s necessary to complete her goal. “Lady Macbeth manipulates her husband by questioning his manhood, wishes that she herself could be ‘unsexed’,” (SparksNotes) She uses this manipulation to influence Macbeth’s desire to kill in order to have his own preservation, going as far to say that doubting hisself makes him cowardice and unmanly. Later in the play, Lady Macbeth tends to contradict herself as she soon becomes insane due to how the murders created a toll on her conscience. "Out, damned spot!

Macbeth even turns to killing his best friend Banquo simply because he believes that he is onto him. Lady Macbeth has her own experience with this “wash your hands, put on your nightgown, look not so pale, I tell

She is basing her fake acts of distress off the mindset that no one who just murdered another human being would be so shocked and traumatized by the death of the person they just murdered. Those who are guilty of a crime they knowingly committed will do everything in their power to seem as if they are innocent. Therefore when Lady Macbeth acts shocked and traumatized at the news of King Duncan’s murder as a way to evade suspicions she is guilty. In addition, Macbeth sent some murderers to kill Banquo and Fleance because they suspected that he may be responsible for the murder of King Duncan. With Banquo (Macbeth’s best friend) and King Duncan murdered, Macbeth’s guilt builds up to the point where he starts seeing hallucinations of Banquo’s ghost.

By modern standards, her final unnatural deed was a crime against herself. If the doctor could locate his queen's illness and "purge it to a sound and spotless health," Macbeth says he would cheer. Because of the witches' false predictions, he is temporarily apprehensive of his demise, but he is aware that something is wrong. As the witches warned him, "until Birnam Forest comes to Dunsinane," he continues to believe that nothing bad can happen to him (5.3.10). After Lady Macbeth dies, Macbeth is brought to his knees, and for a brief period, it appears as though the country is revolting against his unnatural rule.

While Macbeth changes in a negative direction and becomes more violent to get what he wants, Lady Macbeth appears to be doing the opposite, starting from having the desire to be filled with direst cruelty to trying to rub the spot out of her hand from Duncan’s murder even though she did not actually kill him. The first sign of her change was when she attempted to persuade Macbeth to not kill any more people after Duncan since he is now king, but Macbeth refused to tell her of his plans to kill Banquo. After Macbeth successfully sends people to kill Banquo, he sees Banquo’s ghost at the coronation feast which causes his guests to leave. Lady Macbeth responds by saying, “You lack the season of all natures, sleep” (III, 4). Her solution to Macbeth’s madness was sleep, which temporarily fixes the situation and causes him to think rationally by going to talk to the witches the next day to figure out what is going on and what will happen in the future.

During her delusion, she says, “What, will these hands ne’er be clean?” (5.1.39) and then later says, “Here’s the smell of blood still. All the / perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little / hand” (5.145-47). Lady Macbeth is unable to let go of her guilt and take responsibility for her actions. She decides she is unable to continue living as such and decides to take her own life.

Lady Macbeth orders a servant to fetch Macbeth and before he arrives, she bemoans “Naught’s had, all’s spent, Where our desire is got without content,” indicating that even though she has gotten everything she wants, Lady Macbeth is still not happy because she had to kill to get what she wanted. According to Edith Whitehurst Williams, Lady Macbeth has “a conscience far from dead” that is seen in how she is not happy despite having the power she wanted, since the means of obtaining that power were unsavory (Williams 222). Once Macbeth arrives, Lady Macbeth consults him, advising that “what’s done is done,” meaning that Duncan is dead and their plan is through, so he does not need to do anything more or kill anyone else (3.2.12). Macbeth can sense that Lady Macbeth will not advocate for any more murders and therefore he “does not make her a party to the murder of Banquo” (Williams 222) and so when Lady Macbeth tells him to “sleek o’er your rugged looks”(3.2.27) in order to stop him from his planning of further murders, he simply agrees. At the banquet where Macbeth sees Banquo’s ghost, after everyone has left, Macbeth is talking about how he has more schemes to kill people, it is seen that Lady Macbeth’s “dedications to evil… [are] not going to sustain her”(Williams 222).

He decides to write to his wife, Lady Macbeth, who holds this dark ambition inside of her. She tells Macbeth that he is a coward and that he must do whatever it takes to become king of Scotland. This dark ambition is first shown in act one scene four when Macbeth says, “This is a step on which I must fall down... which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.” Lady Macbeth plays an enormous part in Macbeth’s mental corruption. After murdering Duncan,

Her ambition and desire for power drive her to persuade Macbeth to commit regicide. Lady Macbeth's attempts to rid herself of guilt are evident in her constant hand-washing and attempts to dissociate herself from the murders. However, her guilt becomes too much to bear, and she ultimately takes her own life. Lady Macbeth's struggle highlights the consequences of unchecked ambition and the importance of maintaining one's honour and integrity. Banquo is a foil to Macbeth, as he maintains his integrity and honour throughout the play.

Those who are weak often manipulate others to do the things they cannot. Shakespeare's Tragedy of Macbeth describes two characters’ desire for power, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Throughout the play, Lady Macbeth displays many facets to her personality. She is such a diverse and complicated character that it is hard to know if she is truly evil or weak. However, no matter how strong and evil Lady Macbeth appears to be to others, her weakness is clearly apparent when she is alone.

She makes it seem like it is simple to get rid of the thought that he just murdered the King by just washing the blood. While Macbeth inside is suffering from his guilt Lady Macbeth makes seem so effortless and acts like nothing happened. The thought questioning herself of what action she forced her husband to do or get involved in never crosses her mind. She gives him false hope on stating that everything will be fine if he just goes and washes all the blood and act absent-mindedly. Shakespeare is showing that “ cannot commit such crime without undergoing terrible inner torment and triggering self-defeating behavior”( Paris) shows that it is the less external consequences of his crime than the internal deterioration.

Despite what we think, society has a great affect on all of us. It influences the way we think, act, and even dress. In the play Macbeth the main character, Macbeth, is not influenced by society, but he is unknowingly influenced by many things around him. Most people do not realize the power of society to influence individuals, but the proof is everywhere.