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 …showed first 75 words of 1517 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1517 total…further lure Macbeth into participating in her corrupt plans. Eventually she is successful in doing this, and Macbeth murders Duncan. Lady Macbeth lit a spark of evil in Macbeth that turned into his destruction. Macbeth became power hungry and murdered many others in order to have it. Lady Macbeth turned her loyal, honourable husband into a corrupt fool. In the end it all lead to the total destruction of a once well respected, virtuous hero.