Character of Lady Macbeth

                                                    CHARACTER OF LADY MACBETH. 

Of all Shakespeare's female characters Lady Macbeth stands out far beyond the rest — remarkable for her ambition, strength of will, cruelty. 
      When we first see her, she is already plotting Duncan’s murder, and she is stronger, more ruthless, and more ambitious than her husband. Much of her behaviour in the play seems to be pretended and bolster the drooping spirit of her husband. She acts as a guiding force to her weak husband. In reality she is not just a cruel monster but is human endowed with natural tenderness of a woman. 
Love and affection: 
    .On the night of the murder, it was her affectionate memory for her dead father which alone made her pause when in the midst of crime. Throughout she is a devoted wife. Her whole ambition is for her husband. She never speaks of herself, or of elevation for herself, except on one occasion.  
"Which shall to all our nights and days to come /Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom."  
She had had children, though none had lived. That she had been an affectionate mother we may infer from her words to her husband:  
"I have given suck, and know  
How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me."  
Feminity:  Lady Macbeth is not only a perfect wife but also a mother. It is not that she is unware of her feminine weakness but she has enough will to repress them; at least temporarily. Macbeth knows quite well of the feminine qualities of his wife.He tells her " Be innocent of the knowledge,dearest chuck"Her feminity takes full possession of her in the sleep walking scene.Every crime has truck deep inti her mind and heart.She sobs like a delicate woman:  "The Thane Of Fife had a wide,where is she now?..she wolud never uttered these words id she were completely devoid of a feminine nature. 

 Strength of will or energy:  Lady Macbeth possesses " a frightfully determined will".With the strength of this will she influences her husband ,guides him, remedies his faults  and helps him to come out of his critical situations. She never deviates from her purpose till the climax is reached.She can even go to Duncan's chamber and smear the guards with blood. 
Knowing her husband's weakness, she assumes the manly part, and calls upon the spirits to fill her  
"From the crown to the toe top-full  
Of direst cruelty." I. v. 40. 
She plans the murder; she drugs the grooms and lays the daggers ready. She would have given the blow with her own hands if Duncan does not appear to her as father. 
Her Cunningness and self control: 
 Lady Macbeth is capable of self control and practicality and she  knows right well when she tells her husband to "leave all the rest to me," that by dissimulation and cunning she could plan and carry out the murder of Duncan, so that no suspicion would rest upon either Macbeth or herself. She displayed the utmost resourcefulness and alertness of brain at the banquet scene where she tries one method and then another. She tries to save him from awkward situation by inventing an illness for husband by discouraging the guests from talking to him. 
Conscience: 
 Despite her apparent cruelty Lady Macbeth is certainly not without traces of conscience.Lady Macbeth felt that suppressing her conscience for the deed was enough and that later the thought of the deed would just dissipate. The outcome is not this way, though, because Macbeth and Lady Macbeth often cannot go to sleep, and if they do, they experience terrifying dreams. But still, Lady Macbeth is able to maintain her sanity and composure during the day, even more than her husband.  .Once she practically rescues Macbeth from the frailty of his own conscience. When Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost she creates an excuse to explain his odd behaviour. She attempts to chasten Macbeth by again questioning his manhood.  
Lady Macbeth's condition worsens, and she goes in and out of sleep with delirious visions. Macbeth asks the doctor to cure her or give her a drug that will erase the troubles of the heart. The doctor responds that he cures physical not moral problems.  
According to the poet's poetic physiology and psychology, her unnaturally strained conscience and power of dissimulation avenge themselves during sleep, and the somnambulist, self-betraying, acts as it were all the secret guilty scenes over again. Once she thought she could with a little water clear away the witnesses of that deed, but now, in the torture of her hardened heart she complains with groans of anguish that the smell and stain of blood will never wash away.  Lady Macbeth commits suicide" According to Verity:" Lady Macbeth and Hamlet stand apart from the rest of Shakespeare's creations  in the intensity and perplexity of the interest they arouse " 

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