Prove that Lady Macbeth is a redeemable character.

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Lady Macbeth
During the early 17th century, women were regarded as inferior and submissive to men. They had no voice or control over what ensued in the society. Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare play, Macbeth supersedes all these societal expectations to emerge as an influential character who deploys sinister-like traits to help her husband rise to power. She is the source of all evils who manages to persuade his husband, Macbeth, to kill King Duncan with a motive of rising to power. Lady Macbeth cruel intentions ensue after a trio of witches prophesies that her husband would eventually rise to the throne of Scotland. As the storyline unfolds, Lady Macbeth dreads her sinister traits, and this marks a transformative change of character. Despite her earlier sinful life, Lady Macbeth proves to be a redeemable character who is ready to denounce her manipulative traits and assume a remorseful soul.
A sense of guilt overflows Lady Macbeth after the death of King Duncan. Shakespeare exhibits two digressing traits of Lady Macbeth which can be figuratively perceived after analyzing her life before and after the death of King Duncan. As the play culminate, Lady Macbeth is overwhelmed with guilt and remorse. The culmination of the play suggests that guilt and compassionate are still buried inside her soul. The opening scenes depict a character who lacks humanity and can call upon the “spirits that tend on mortal thoughts” (Act 1, Scene 5, line 42) to divest her of the feministic susceptibilities that might still convince her to care.

The statement, “where out desire is got without contentment” (Act III, Scene 2, line 5) shows a lack of fulfillment of her ambitions. Her desires of becoming the queen were meaningless, and she dreads her former self. Lady Macbeth’s greed for power and authority were malicious acts which she lingered every day in her mind. Guilt instigates self-realization which is pivotal in determining how character traits can change over time.
In an attempt to wash away invisible bloodstains from her hands, Lady Macbeth plunges into a trance state of sleepwalking. She is trying to unveil and unmask the deepest evil she had ever committed. She hoped to be cleansed of the evil deeds she pressed Macbeth to undertake. Lady Macbeth blamed herself for instigating the death of innocent souls by manipulating her husband to kill those who threatened his rise to power. Using a candle at night, she made enchantments and gestures meant to bemoan the demise of Duncan, Banquo, and Lady Macduff. Her utterance, “out, damned spot” (Act VI, Scene 1, line 39) depicts her futile attempt to cleanse Duncan’s blood out of her hands. The terror of darkness had befallen her although she still had hopes that it would all culminate well. Lady Macbeth believed that all the misdeeds that had befallen her were as a result of her transgressions. The reality of her thoughts and unconscious mind was slowly dawning on him to dredge and eliminate all the tribulations she had committed.
Unable to cope with the pressure of her guilt, Lady Macbeth commits suicide. Lady Macbeth’s death was instigated by a sense of personal sympathy that had haunted her all along. Consequently, Lady Macbeth could no longer sustain to witness the downfall of her husband, Macbeth, through dethronement from combined rival forces of the deceased families. Her death was the snap point that signaled her inability to face the reality of her crimes where she could no longer hold an again. The fact that she did no alert her husband before committing suicide illustrates the weight linked with the compassionate she withheld. The short-lived Scotland Queen knew that “what’s done cannot be undone” (Act VI, Scene 1, line 75). She could not live to withstand all these humiliations which were all subject to his ruthless and evil conscious during the first part of the play. Lady Macbeth preferred a short time suicidal agony rather than lifetime guilt. She withheld on a very fragile and feeble constitution that would no longer withstand the weight of her remorse and despair. Any redeemable spirit tends to avenge itself in case conscious is violated. The element of being in despair proves that she still had her loosely hanging humanity. She thought there would be a chance to liberate herself, but it was too late.
Lady Macbeth is a dynamic character who is open to change and liberation. She depicts two digressing character traits as the plot unfolds. Lady Macbeth was determined not to permit her past to define her future, but remorse and despair overwhelmed her. I believe if she were given an opportunity she would have proved her redeemable character. Cleansing her past was always a limiting factor that always escalated as she perceived the downfall and dethronement of her husband from power. Despite all her misdeeds, Lady Macbeth’s overlooked the consequences of murdering innocent souls for power. She disregards her conscious which later haunts and torments him since she knew that it is immoral to commit murder. Many are the times; personal human desires lead to acting out of malice. Self-realization realization and guilt draw Lady Macbeth to her conscious. This proves to be the only route to achieving redeemability of a character.
Work cited
“The Complete Text of Macbeth: Scenes from Shakespeare’s Macbeth”. Shakespeare-
Online.Com, 2016, http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/macbeth/.