King Claudius Vs Lady Macbeth
What does it takes to become the perfect villain? Claudius Vs Lady Macbeth - please cast your vote now. In a Shakespearean play a villain plays an important role. There always have to be a villain in the play who breaks one of the chains of nature and allows chaos to enter the world, which is then restored by the tragic hero. Claudius, the villain of Hamlet kills Old King Hamlet and spreads chaos in the kingdom of Denmark. Lady Macbeth, villain of Macbeth forces and threatens Macbeth to kill King Duncan and thus also spreads chaos in the kingdom of Scotland. Although some people think that Lady Macbeth is not totally guilty for the tragedy of Macbeth, underneath she is just as guilty as King Claudius is for the tragedy for Hamlet. King Claudius of Hamlet and Lady Macbeth of Macbeth exhibit three similar qualities, dishonesty, evilness, and deceitfulness throughout the play; although sometimes they demonstrate these qualities in different ways, these qualities greatly affect the other characters in the plays and the plot of the play making them one Shakespeare's greatest tragedies. King Claudius and Lady Macbeth are similar in that they both let their crave of power and desire for the crown driv
King Claudius and Lady Macbeth are also very good at disguising their deceit. In Hamlet, only Hamlet himself is aware of the true nature of Claudius. All others, including his Wife and subjects, think he is a wonderful and innocent King. Although these two characters are deceitful, corrupt, and evil, these traits are sometimes exhibited in different ways and for different reasons. Both Claudius and Lady Macbeth wanted the crown, but they wanted it for different reasons. Lady Macbeth wanted her husband to have the crown for purely selfish reasons. She wanted to have the honour and fame of being a Queen, she says, "And chastise with the valour of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round." Here she shows her selfishness as she hopes that she may be able to rid her husband of his scruples of conscience and gentleness of nature so that he may be able to kill the king. Claudius had another motive behind him killing his brother. He was deeply in love with the Queen, his brotherıs wife. Therefore, he killed not only for the crown itself, but for love too. Another difference in the ways that they exhibited their evil deceitfulness is in the way that they murdered the Kings. King Claudius handled the whole affair by himself and in fact, he actually did the deed. Lady Macbeth was so selfish that she could not even do it her self because se was afraid of getting caught. In order to save her own face she connived her husband into doing the actual murder, when it was her original idea. She used many deceitful arguments such as in Act I, scene seven when she says, ³I would, while it was smiling in my face, have pluckıd my nipple from his boneless gums, and dashıd the brains out, had I sworn so as you have done this.² Here Lady Macbeth argues that she would do basically anything for Macbeth if she had promised to do it. By saying this she intends to use guilt to con Macbeth into killing King Duncan for her. Although they may both be corrupt and deceitful, King Claudius seems to be less conscientious of his wrong doings than Lady Macbeth. Throughout the play King Claudius appears extremely happy, and shows hardly any signs of remorse. Lady Macbeth is far different from this. Although she conceals most of her problems t
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