what is lady macbeths' personality?

Answer 1

Lady Macbeth has a complex personality.

In the begining of Shakespeare's play, Lady Macbeth reads a letter from her husband on which he tells her the prophecy of the 3 witches. She believes that her husband wants to become king, but is too much of a coward. She says he is "too full the milk of human kindness." She then decides that she will have to take matters into her own hands, and asks to be "un-sexed" or rather to be made more like a man and have the qualities of a man that can kill in cold blood.

In the first act, we see that she is not only cynical of her husband's ability to murder, but vicious when she taunts and teases him when he shows his doubts.

While she orcastrates the murder, actually plotting it out for her "too kind" husband, she does leave the actual deed of murder for him to commit. This is something to recall later on.
After the murder is committed, her husband states that nothing will ever clean his hands of the king's blood. However, Lady Macbeth again taunts him and states that a little water is all they need to clean up from the murder. "How easy it is then!"

Yet, as the play progresses the wimpy husband Macbeth actually begins to take control as he feeds more and more off his greed and the witches predictions. The first glimmer of Lady Macbeth's conscious is when she states that she could have killed the king herself, had he not looked like her father. Later we see that Lady Macbeth begins to suffer from nightmares, showing that she does, after all, have a working conscience. Ironically enough, while she sleepwalks, she rubs her hands, crying, "out damned spot, out I say! Will not all the perfumes in Arabia sweeten this little hand?" It turns out that a little water was not enough to clean her conscience as she fights in her sleep to rid herself of guilt.

In the end, it is assumed that Lady Macbeth commits suicide. Overall, she is the most strong, violent, crude, and manipulative queen that Shakespeare dreamed up. However, her act was all that- an act, and in the end, her words could not keep her soul silent.

Answer 2

Lady Macbeth is a complicated character. She is the one who encourages her husband to hasten the fulfillment of the witches' prediction that he will eventually become king of Scotland by goading Macbeth into murdering the king while he slumbers in the macbeth home. We see that this action was probably against her nature as the guilt she experiences after the fact drives her insane.

Answer 3

well at the beginning of the play, she is the one person that macbeth trusts. he tells her things and confides in her.
but after the murder of duncan she becomes mentally imbalance. the guilt takes over her life. macbeth no longer confides in her. and soon she ends up dying.

i hope this helps u!! iz just that the book iz still fresh in my head :)

Answer 4

She is cruel, manipulative, and ambitious.

Answer 5

cruel and manipulative