What Is Lady Macbeth's Capacity For Evil
In the Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth exhibit a greater capacity for evil than her husband Macbeth. Shortly after reading the letter sent to her from Macbeth, Lady Macbeth says, “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be/What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature./It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness” (1, V, 14-16). Lady Macbeth knows that Macbeth isn’t as ruthless as herself and he doesn’t have the drive to do evil, so Lady Macbeth is going to persuade Macbeth into doing the unspeakable. Without Lady Macbeth’s evil schemes and her pressuring Macbeth to Kill King Duncan, Macbeth wouldn’t have done such an evil deed. Although Lady Macbeth has proven her tremendous capacity for evil with her persuasion of