Macbeth's energetic womanShakespeare's Macbeth presents the audience with a woman who is more man than woman. His masculine virtues (or vices) surpass his feminine strengths. Let's take a look at his character in this article. AC Bradley in Shakespearean Tragedy explains where Lady Macbeth's greatness lies: Lady Macbeth's greatness lies almost entirely in courage and willpower. It is a mistake to consider it exceptional from an intellectual point of view. In playing a part he shows immense self-control, but not much skill. Whatever one may think of the design of attributing Duncan's murder to the Chamberlains, of placing their bloody daggers on the cushions, as if determined to publicize their guilt, it was a mistake which can only be explained by the excitement of the public . moment. But the limitations appear especially where he contrasts most strongly with Macbeth, in his relative dullness of imagination. (340) In The Riverside Shakespeare Frank Kermode enlightens the reader regarding the murderous mind of Lay Macbeth: The fatal departure from consideration of the "life to come" disables the case in favor of real good over apparent good to such an extent that Lady Macbeth, even less aware of spiritual matters and ridiculing as effeminate the purely human reasons against murder, and demonstrating, against her husband's point of view, that it is possible. (1309) Samuel Johnson in The Plays of Shakespeare emphasizes how the ambition of the protagonists leads to detestation from the readers: The danger of ambition is well described; and I don't know whether it may not be said, in defense of some parts which now seem improbable, that, in Sh... middle of the paper... Blakemore Evans. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972.Knights, LC “Macbeth.” Shakespeare: the tragedies. A collection of critical essays. Alfred Harbage, ed. Englewwod Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1964. Mack, Maynard. Everyone is Shakespeare: reflections especially on tragedies. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.Shakespeare, William. The tragedy of Macbeth. http://chemicool.com/Shakespeare/macbeth/full.html, no lin.Siddons, Sarah. "Memorandum: Observations on the Character of Lady Macbeth." The Life of Mrs Siddons. Thomas Campbell. London: Effingham Wilson, 1834. Rpt. in Women Reading Shakespeare 1660-1900. Ann Thompson and Sasha Roberts, eds. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1997.Wilson, HS On the Design of Shakespearean Tragedy. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1957.