Lady Macbeth

Yes, we must admit that Macbeth, in the psycho-analytical five-act tragedy Macbeth, was out and out a corrupt man stuffed with over ambition and desire to commit regicide. However, we cannot ignore the fact that Lady Macbeth was no less in being a heinous criminal. Some of the critics have compared her with Clytemnestra, Medea etc. Some of the thinkers call her to be the fourth witch. She was, later on, plagued with somnambulism or sleepwalking. Apart from that, she used to speak in her sleepwalk. That is to say, we may utter that she was plagued to be a somniloquist as well. She constantly used to wash off blood from her hands in sleep, although they were totally clean then. Actually, this gesture had a long root in her past activities. Her brutal, monstrous and murderous activities made her do so later on. She was no less ambitious than Macbeth himself. She has justly been called to be the fourth witch in the play. We come across Lady Macbeth's ailment in Act V,  Scene i of the play. She utters, "To bed, to bed: there's knocking at the gate./ Come, come, come, come, give me your hand./ What's done cannot be undone........" At last, she committed suicide in repentance and deep feeling of guilt.

Lady Macbeth died an unnatural death just as she caused others die unnaturally. Still, we can say that she is the bravest woman in the entire play. Of course, every woman figure, in the play, is brave in her own way. Still, for such a multi-layered personality, Lady Macbeth can be considered to be the bravest female character in Macbeth.

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