Discuss whether or not you feel sympathy for Lady Macbeth There are certain aspects of Lady Macbeth’s character that suggests she is good and therefore her downfall increases my sympathy for her by the end of act 5. But I would also argue that she entailed evil to fuel her sleeping ambition that would make her nemesis, her mental collapse, fully justified. Lady Macbeth’s role as a supporting wife at the start of the …showed first 75 words of 726 total…

…showed last 75 words of 726 total…s downfall because, like Macbeth, she could have been a good, honest ruler. From the evidence I have given about the two sides of Lady Macbeth that influences my decision, I am rooted in a sympathetic paradox between Lady Macbeth’s mental downfall, which increases my sympathy for her, and her evil ambition, which makes me feel unsympathetic towards her. My feelings for and against Lady Macbeth form an equilibrium of sympathy for Lady Macbeth