English 2006 17 December 2002 The Naturally Evil Lady Macbeth A villain is characterized as a fiendish or evil person. With her heart of stone and manipulative mind, Lady Macbeth is the true villain of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is naturally evil as opposed to Macbeth who changed dramatically after his supernatural encounters with the witches. Lady Macbeth revealed her evil side when she manipulated Macbeth and questioned his manhood in an attempt to persuade him to …showed first 75 words of 1085 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1085 total…that played by her own rules. She does not even show her guilt until the end of the play, when all the damage and carnage has already occurred. In the end, Macbeth battled and died in his strive for power, as opposed to the beginning of the play where he had stronger morals and better judgment. In contrary, Lady Macbeth began as a cruel and vile woman, and she withered and died because of it.