Macbeth Acts 4 & 5
Lady Macbeth shows some humanity in the last Act, as her guilt and nervousness leads her into madness. As sad as her drive into madness is, the fact that she is moved by the deeds she has helped influence, helps the reader feel some sympathy for her and brings her back from being completely evil. The visions she beings to have of her hands being bloody, shows her ability to feel remorse which is a very human emotion to feel. She commits suicide, which in Christian tradition, was the ultimate sin one can commit since there is no salvation from such a sin. While in the eyes of Christian tradition this may seem terrible, and it is, I also believe that this further proves her humanity instead of her being pure evil. As a reader, making her human once again is important, it makes for a much less scary tragedy and one where one can explore realistic human tendencies. Macbeth shows the reader the absolute ugliness in human nature, and that to me, is far more intriguing than something that seems out of this world.
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