LADY MACBETH:

SYMBOL OF EVIL OR COMPLICATED CHARACTER?

Act 1, Scene 5
Come you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here And fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty (l. 40-42)

Lady Macbeth is not evil!

She has a conscience

She is an ambitious person It is human nature to make mistakes She has good intentions

She regrets her actions

Individual, defining traits

Good and Evil side

Depth of character

Feels regret

Interesting Lines
Your servants ever Have theirs, themselves,

and what is theirs in count To make their audit at your highness pleasure, Still to return your own. (Act 1, Scene 6, l. 26-29)
Heres the smell of the blood still; all the

perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. (Act 5, Scene 1, l. 44-45)

Symbol of

real humans
and our

capacity for evil