The Changes of a Women

The Changes of a Women

People can be like chameleons. They may change themselves to fit the life situation in which they find themselves. In the play, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth exhibits chameleon-like qualities.
Lady Macbeth has a conscience in the beginning of the play, Macbeth, but once she reads the letter from Macbeth she learns about the killing of Duncan, and her disposition changes to evil. “The raven himself is hoarse… to cry hold, hold!” (I, V, 36-52) Lady Macbeth asks the gods to remove her female sexuality to allow evil to fill her inner self more completely. “What beast was’t then that made you break… who shall bear the guilt of our great quell?” (I, VII, 47-72) Lady Macbeth is consumed by the murder. She plots how Duncan is to die and corrupts Macbeth on changing his conscience. She tells him about the baby that they once had and died then tells him about how much that she would love to become Queen. Macbeth is pulled...