The real Lady Macbeth

Lady Macbeth Lady MacBeth plays an important role in the events of Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of MacBeth. Her intentions and actions directly influence MacBeth; however the results do not always come out as she intends them. For instance, “They strike into the existing order of things in pursuance of their ideas. But what they achieve is not what they intended; it is terribly unlike it” (Bradley 59). Lady Macbeth falls victim to the disturbance …

…helping MacBeth become king, she doomed them both- him in the physical world and her in the supernatural world. Bradley said, “They act freely, and yet their actions bind them hand and foot”(102) and that is exactly what happened in this play with Lady MacBeth, only her actions not only effected her, but MacBeth as well. It was the path that she chose to achieve her intentions that brought her and MacBeth to their ends.