Lady Macbeth

She sees Macbeth as a good, gentle and soft character full of inner goodness. Lady Macbeth speaks in a blank verse. She couldn’t persuade Macbeth her self to kill king Duncan, so she called on the evil spirits, she said “ Come you spirit that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe top- full. She called on the evil spirit to make her ruthless and make her more like a man, free from her womanly quantities and then the evil spirit took over her. She is devilish, ruthless and ambitious. It has a chanting rhythm like a spell. It is a fierce because she wanted to kill Duncan. She speaks to Macbeth as if she is controlling him. Lady Macbeth is fearless, supportive of her husband and she is also manipulative and domineering.        Macbeth wants greatness but only by fair means, “ The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly”. Lady Macbeth knows that she will persuade him to do the deed. Shakespeare uses flower and serpent (Biblical metaphor). She is trying to be poetic, she wants Macbeth to pretend to be welcoming and deceiving Duncan to his house to be his host. Before this scene Lady Macbeth has made up her mind to kill Duncan and she is trying to persuade Macbeth to go along with it. In this scene Macbeth has made up his mind not to go ahead in killing Duncan but after listening to his wife he was clearly undecided. Macbeth said, “ We will proceed no further in this business”, Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth by saying he doesn’t love her, he is not a real man if he doesn’t go ahead with the plans, he is a coward, he called him a beast, she would be willing to kill her child rather than not to go ahead with the plans and she reminds him that it was all his idea. She wants to show him how she’d prepared to give up, how desperate she is for him to achieve his ambition. She wants to shock him into action. She shows him how she wants to be Queen and she says he is a beast for not killing Duncan. She is mocking him but trying to persuade him to go ahead with the murder, she said she would do anything for him but she is trying to do it for herself as well as Macbeth’s. She successed in convincing Macbeth to kill Duncan, Macbeth has gone to kill Duncan and she is waiting for his return. Macbeth returns with Daggers and blood all over his body. Lady Macbeth had to follow back to where he murdered to return the daggers. Lady Macbeth robbed blood all over the guards body (Which she made them drunk). The next morning, everyone saw the king (Duncan) that he was dead and they saw the two guards that they were soak with blood, they killed the both guards. Duncan two sons ran away from Scotland to England thinking they might kill them too. Macbeth was crowned king and Macbeth is his Queen. There is a change in Lady Macbeth, she is not confident about her position as a queen. She has become a little soft at heart and lost some of her aggressiveness. Their relationship has changed, they have both become cold towards each other and Macbeth has started to keep to himself. Macbeth has also killed his best friend Banquo. It reveals that they have drifted apart and Lady Macbeth still controls Macbeth, She does this by making excuses for him. Lady Macbeth is more dominant and Macbeth is more dependant. The last scene, we saw Lady Macbeth is when she was washing her hands, Duncan’s blood now haunts her in her dreams (she was the one who took back the daggers and saw all the blood). She is not really talking to Macbeth very much anymore. She thoughts preying on her mind. The distress results to sleep walking and talking in her sleep. Isolation from Macbeth has driven her mad. She is obsessively wash her hands, thinking she can still see and blood on her hands. Lady Macbeth committed suicide at this scene.