Lisa C. answered • 07/29/22
Experience You Can Trust
Lady Macbeth does not do anything virtuous in this play. I would challenge you to find something. She does defend her husband when he starts acting crazy, but she is the one who made him crazy. How did she make him crazy? Well, that is why she is a villain. Lady Macbeth is a picture-perfect evil character because the very instant that she receives word from her husband that the king recognizes Macbeth for his good deeds, she becomes blood-thirsty. Lady Macbeth has to constantly spur on her husband's desires to be king, as he waivers between being loyal and "over-leaping" obstacles to be king. She questions her husband's manliness and rejects her "womanhood" to get the fierce nature she believes will allow her to rise to royalty. At one point, she derides Macbeth by saying that if SHE had promised to go through with this as he did, she would not question it. She asserts this by saying she would take their (non-existent) baby away from nursing and bash it if she said she would. This shows her very cruel nature. Things only crumble from there and she becomes her own victim, as villains do, in the end.
