role of Lady MacBeth
Lady Macbeth is the most commanding and perhaps the most awe-inspiring figure that Shakespeare has developed. Shakespeare’s play undergoes such a radical devolution as that which transforms Lady Macbeth from a nearly super-human character in the first act of Macbeth into a sleep-walking zombie at the start of act V (Moore 1). Lady Macbeth tries to deny her feminine nature despite her ambition for power conspiring with unholy forces to commit evil deeds, which in the end destroys her. The first time we meet Lady Macbeth she is reading the letter from Macbeth that explains the meeting with the three witches and their prophecy of him being the king of Scotland. Lady Macbeth’s ambition for power is the driving force behind her husband’s “bloodstained” rise to the throne of Scotland. ... Using witchcraft, Lady Macbeth transforms into an unnatural spirit making her not a simple villain but is repelled by the evil inherent in murder, though only through the subconscious (Moore 2).