Hello everyone, I am Mansi Gujadiya. In this PPT I will discuss about character of Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's drama 'Macbeth'.

1. Lady Macbeth
character sketch
Present by Mansi Gujadiya

2. Personal Information
• Name:- Mansi Bhikhabhai Gujadiya
• Roll No.:- 14
• Enrollment Number:-4069206420220013
• Sem :- 2 M.A
• Paper No.:-101
• Paper Code:-22392
• Paper Name:-Literature of The Elizabethan And
Restoration Period
• Topic:- Character study of Lady Macbeth
• Submitted to:- Department of English MKBU
• Email:- mansigajjar10131@gmail.com

3. Basic information about Macbeth
• Macbeth, tragedy in five acts by William
Shakespeare.
• The play is the shortest of Shakespeare’s
tragedies.
• Macbeth’s rise and his fall the result of
blind ambition.

4. Lady Macbeth as a wife
• Lady Macbeth is considered one of the of the main characters in
William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
• She is the wife of Macbeth who kills the king of Scotland
(Duncan).
• The downfall of Macbeth not only caused by his own weakness
but also bad influences of Lady Macbeth as a wife.
• a woman who served as her husband's “evil genius.”
• Lady Macbeth has controlled the mind set of Macbeth.
• Macbeth letter to his wife about the witches' prophecies,
Macbeth writes, "This have I thought good to deliver thee, my
dearest partner of greatness, that thou mightst not lose the
dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of what greatness is
promised thee"(1.5.10-13).

5. Ambition
• a comparison study between Lady Macbeth's
character and her husband regarding who is
lesser devil.
• She had no other Ambition than being the
Queen of Scotland.
• “To catch the nearest way—thou wouldst be
great. Art not without ambition, but without
the illness should attend it.”(Act 1, scene

6. Famininity
• Lady Macbeth may put on the appearance of
femininity.
• She can never be unsexed or be made as bold or
hard-hearted as a man.
• She is bold and spirited only in her tongue.
• Lady Macbeth talks a lot of courageous things
and even of impossible things which no woman
on the earth can do.

7. Her psychology
• In the first scene of the fifth act, Lady Macbeth
gets out of her bed-room with a lighted candle in
her hand and begins to walk and talk to herself
quite loudly although she is actually fast asleep.
• Her eyes are open but they have no power of
vision for the time being.
• This is not only a physical but a psychological
phenomenon. Some people say that it is a kind of
nervous disease.

8. Death
• The fifth act 'Sleep– Walking ' scene in which lady
Macbeth suffers the death which seems to be a
kind of committing suicide.

9. Reference
• Nabhan, F. (2020). Lady macbeth between
ambition and femininity in William Shakespeare's
Macbeth. Bulletin of Advanced English Studies,
4(2), 27–31.
https://doi.org/10.31559/baes2020.4.2.1
• Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. (n.d.). Lady
macbeth. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved
October 15, 2022, from
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lady-Macbeth

10. Thank you 😊
“Here’s the smell of
the blood still.
All the perfumes
of Arabia will not
sweeten this little hand.
Oh, oh, oh!”