How Is Lady Macbeth A Good Person

In Shakespeare's world renowned play, “Macbeth” there are numerous intriguing characters. One such character is Lady Macbeth, the wife of the lead character, Macbeth.

In the play, Lady Macbeth is portrayed as an evil, manipulative and emasculating person. However, there is more to Lady Macbeth then just those qualities.

Lady Macbeth was a good person up until she started craving power. This is evident from many things. Firstly, Lady Macbeth knew how to make Macbeth do what she wanted by emasculating him. Lady Macbeth would only know to do that if she really knew Macbeth as a person, which she did, which proves that Lady Macbeth loved Macbeth and had an intimate relationship with him. These are qualities of a good person.

Although the play portrays the killing of King Duncan as a gruesome act (which it is), it fails to go into specific detail about Lady Macbeth’s role in this act. Lady Macbeth gave Macbeth the idea and method of killing King Duncan. Lady Macbeth ensured that King Duncan's death was short and painless, meaning that although it was a horrific thought and idea, some thought was given from Lady Macbeth about how King Duncan's death could be painless.
As proven, Lady Macbeth was a good person who was in an intimate relationship with her husband, Macbeth. This means that there had to be very strong motivation for Lady Macbeth to drive Macbeth to kill King Duncan. The motivation for this was the fact that Lady Macbeth had such a deep love for and had such strong faith in her husband’s ability to be a