One would be more sympathetic to a woman who influences her husband to kill his king, who then becomes mentally ill and dies due to the melancholy and frenzied state caused from guilt for her actions or would one be more understanding of a woman who is just trying to find love but then gets judged as a salacious bitch? Shakespeare and Steinbeck simply inform the women of their eras that women should not attempt what they also attempted as it will lead to their downfall and they made the audience sympathetic towards them only for the tradition to continue and for the audience not to copy them ? This essay will explore how we as an audience feel sympathy for Lady Macbeth and Curley's wife throughout the play and the tale, and how this feeling changes as we examine Lady Macbeth and Curley's wife. Lady Macbeth is first introduced in the play when she receives a letter from her husband explaining that the strange sisters have foretold his future as king. When Lady Macbeth discovers that King Duncan will be staying overnight as a guest in their castle, she plans a regicide to secure Macbeth's place on the throne. However, the fact that Macbeth is "too full of the milk of human kindness" seems to be a barrier for Lady Macbeth to the audience, but Lady Macbeth seems to understand how to plan the murder and convinces her husband Macbeth by denigrating his manhood. If her husband becomes the powerful figure she desires, Lady Macbeth will have to take matters into her own hands. She is conveyed as a zealous, self-confident and ascendant character. In her first soliloquy in Act 1, scene 5, Lady Macbeth is persistent in procuring Macbeth's fate immorally. Even if the prophecies foretold by the Weird Sisters were that... half of the paper... "yes ma'am". He made no threats directly, although he gave him the general idea that if he argued any further he might be lynched. "Well, then hold your ground, nigga. I could hang you from a tree so easily it wouldn't even be funny." it shows how Curley's wife has used her femininity as an excuse to threaten Crooks and has to do all her violence by proxy - and in the world of this novel this makes her helpless and despicable. This might make the audience feel somewhat sympathetic towards Curley's wife when she realizes that she has to do all her violence by proxy and it makes her impudent and despicable, but they won't feel any sympathy for her at all when she threatens a " isolated nigger simply to interrupt his isolation, instead of taking other paths, such as: verbalizing with him, playing cards or something like that, but no, he decides to threaten him instead.