The Unladylike Lady in MacbethWilliam Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth features an intimidating and selfish Lady Macbeth in the title role. We try in this article to delve into her character.LC Knights in the essay "Macbeth" describes the unnaturalness of Lady Macbeth's words and actions:Thus the sense of the unnaturalness of evil is evoked not only by repeated explicit references ("nature evil ", "nature seems dead", "it is unnatural, just like the action performed", and so on), but from the expression of unnatural feelings and an unnatural violence of tone in such things as the invocation of "spirits “ from Lady Macbeth ” that he will “undo her sex,” and her statement that she would kill the child at her breast if he swore to do so (95) Samuel Johnson in The Plays of Shakespeare highlights how the ambition of protagonists lead to detestation on the part of readers: The danger of ambition is well described; and I do not know whether it cannot be said, in defense of some parts which today seem improbable, that in Shakespeare's time it was necessary to warn credulity against vain and illusory predictions. Passions are directed to their true end. Lady Macbeth is simply detested; and though Macbeth's courage retains some esteem, yet every reader rejoices at his fall. (133)In "Macbeth as an Imitation of Action" Francis Fergusson specifies Lady Macbeth's fears:I need not remind you of the great scenes preceding the murder, in which Macbeth and his Lady unite in their desperate effort. If you reflect on these scenes, you will notice that the Macbeths understand the action that begins here as a competition and a stunt, against reason and against nature. Lady Macbeth fears her husband's human nature, as well as her own feminine nature, and therefore fears the light of reason and the common world of daylight. As for Macbeth, he knows from the start that he is engaged in an irrational stunt: “I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Turn the ambition, which surpasses itself / And falls upon the other ." There is also the theme of deception or transcending time in this sequence, an aspect of the order of nature as we know it: seizing consequences, skipping the life to come, and the like...