Lady Macbeth Analysis

Another message that Shakespeare is sending the audience through this play is that women can also be sources of evil and destruction. After Macbeth’s ambitions are sparked by the prophecies, Lady Macbeth encourages Macbeth’s destructive behaviour and she is the brains behind Macbeth’s actions and the will behind her husband’s plotting. Shakespeare uses Lady Macbeth’s behaviour to show the audience that like men, women can also be extremely ambitious and cruel. Lady Macbeth is shown to rely on deception and manipulation rather than use violence to get what she wants. As she tells Macbeth “Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t,” what she means is that Macbeth You should look like an innocent flower, but be like the snake that …show more content…
Power. Near the end of the play Lady Macbeth is shown to descend into a kind of madness because she is haunted by her conscience which leads her to committing suicide. On the other hand, Macbeth is shown as very rational, morally devoid killer by the end of the play. In fact, at the end of the play, Lady Macbeth’s death barely even phased. The audience can see this when he says the following to himself. “I have almost forgot the taste of fears; The time has been, my senses would have cool'd to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors; direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts cannot once start me.” This basically means that he has almost forgotten what fear feels