Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, he presents the conflicting character of Lady Macbeth. Upon receiving her husband’s letter about the witches’ prophesies, she attempts to be like a man in order to exude the strength needed to gain additional social status as royalty. Lady Macbeth appears to be very influential in planning – deciding when and how they should kill King Duncan – and chiding her husband for not acting more like a man; yet, despite these capabilities, she is the main reason for the revealing of the Macbeth’s part in the usurpation of the throne.
First shown as an iron-willed character willing to “[pluck] my nipple from [my child’s] boneless gums, And [dash] the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this” to later being shown as possessed by nightmares of guilt (I. vii), how could such a strong character so quickly fall prey to uneasiness? According to materialist feminism theory, despite her earlier show of strength, Lady Macbeth’s eventual weakness is a result of a patriarchal portrayal of her gender.
A popular speculation on why the oppression of women is not more commonly recognized than the oppression of certain ethnic or religious groups, is that “women’s allegiance to men from their own [background] always supersedes their allegiance to women from different classes” (Tyson 97). While certain social and economic factors separate people from different walks of life, within these groups women are also separated from each other. Women remain isolated which prevents them from making significant changes because they have no strength in size
In Women's World in Shakespeare plays, Irene G. Dash writes of a Lady Macbeth torn between ideals of morality and power. Lady Macbeth desires to renounce her sex and powerlessness and in the process has to renounce morality, which she ultimately cannot follow thought on. In the beginning of the play, she believe that she the strong figure in her union. However, she is only attempting to deny the double standard that she's been subjected to: the subservient and obedient woman versus the creature of morality, taking a stand for what is right. Lady Macbeth finds the classical concept of femininity repulsive, but cannot deny womanhood without denying morality as well. Unfortunately, neither of her desires can carry though: she in unable to commit the initial murder herself because the sleeping king reminds her of her own father. In this, she exhibits tenderness as well as a moral code. Still, in the beginning of the work she appears to be a strong, masculine figure, but, by the end of play, resort to mothering her husband, who, after the desired gaining power, no longer needs to regard her. As Dash says, "Lady Macbeth's tragedy (is the) futility of her attempt to move into the wale world, and, having adopted her moral standards, her ever- increasing isolation from him".
I agree with Dash in that Shakespeare created a sympathetic character in Lady Macbeth. She was not at all a stock villian-it was not Shakespeare's norm to create monsters out of people. By writing a woman who was attempting to break out of her role. Shakespeare was opening up a discussion of what women, and ultimately, people are capable of. Although power may be alluring, no human can forget his or her nature as a creature of morality.
In whole play specially, beginning character of Lady Macbeth some time you filled she was cruel and you feel like she was forth witch but you also connecting dots any human to getting power and ambitious to get power they forgot humanity that's the natural of power hunger people.
Critic view on character of Lady Macbeth:
Sigmund Freud:(Gothic Protagonist & identity)
They are "Like disunited parts of a single psychical individuality".
Isador H. Coriat
" She is not the victim of a blind fate or destiny or punished by a moral law, but affected by a mental disease ".
Other feminist writer:
* Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
*Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
*Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
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