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Analysis of lady Macbeth's character image

Macbeth is the last of Shakespeare's "four tragedies". The vivid world in the book and its tragedy are given different interpretations, which have exerted profound influence on later generations.

Lady Macbeth is the wife of the hero in the book, and she is often characterized as a cruel and vicious woman. She is ambitious and power-hungry, and she was the original instigator of Macbeth's brutal plan to assume the throne. In the eyes of most people, she is the direct cause and culprit of Macbeth's tragedy.

However, behind her ruthlessness there are always women's tenderness, kindness, vulnerability and the love for her husband.

Her deep love for her husband made her determined to contribute to his brilliant career at all costs. Even though her nature was good, but in order to achieve her husband's ambition and be the spiritual pillar of her husband, she has to arm herself with cruelty and coldness, and she must say and do something against her nature.

She knew too much of her husband's hesitation and weakness, so she tried to give him a moral boost by trying to shed her femininity. She tried to summon the indomitable will and firm character of the men, and achieve her husband's dream and her own ambition by being ruthless.

She had said, "come and look at the evil thoughts of men, demons! Lift my feminine frailty, and fill my whole body with the fiercest cruelty from top to heel; Clot my blood, let not pity come into my heart, nor nature's commiseration shake my cruel resolution! Come, you murderous assistants, your invisible bodies are scattered about the space, seeking every opportunity to enter the breast of my woman, and make my breast the gall!"