Lady Macbeth:character study.

The next time we see her is act 1 scene 7; this is the scene where Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are talking about how he is going to kill him. He has nerves about what he is going to do but, again, she manages to persuade her husband to kill him eventually. She seems like a woman who after finding out about something that she might be able to have, tries as hard as she can to get that thing even though it is almost impossible to get.

We next see her in act 1 scene 2; this is the scene after the one where Macbeth kills the King. When Macbeth comes back down the stairs, He still has the daggers in his hands that he used to kill the king. He also has blood all over his hands as well. She shouts at him because he forgot to leave the daggers in the king's room next to the two guards who Lady Macbeth had got drunk so that they would wake up with blood all over their hands and the king dead in the next room. She seems to be able to control her husband if she tries hard enough. She then goes back into the kings room and covers the two guards in blood and dips their daggers in the blood as well. Then they go back into their room and wash the King's blood off their hands. Before Macbeth Killed Duncan, Lady Macbeth had said that she was not able to kill him because he looked too much like her father while he was asleep.

We next see her in act 2 scene 3; this is the scene where Macduff and Lennox discover the King, they find him whilst they are walking around the castle. They all start shouting everyone to wake up because there has been a 'terrible murder'. When Lady finds out about the King's death she doesn't act as if it is that bad. She says ' What in our house!' this is not what a normal person would say if they found a dead body in one of their bedrooms. When Macbeth kills the two guards Lady Mac draws the attention away from him by fainting. She sort of gets him out of a hole here.

We next see her very briefly in act 3 scene 1. This is the scene where all the lords crown Macbeth King. She only has one line in this scene it is: 'if he had been forgotten it had been as a gap in our great feast and all-thing unbecoming. We next see her in act 3 scene 2; she begins by talking to a servant about if Banquo has gone from court. And then Macbeth comes in; they begin to talk about how they keep dreaming about how they killed the King.

We next see her in act 3 scene 4. In this scene is a banquet in honour of Macbeth's coronation. Before this scene Macbeth has paid some murderers to kill Banquo, he did not tell his wife of this, which might make her a bit unhappy. At the Banquet Banquo doesn't turn up which some people find a bit strange because he is his best friend. At the banquet Macbeth begins to see the ghost of Banquo who comes into the room and sits down at his place. Next Macbeth starts shouting at the ghost and no one else can see the ghost so they start to act as if he might be mad or something like that. Again as she did in an earlier scene Lady Macbeth draws the attention away from her husband by saying that he has had a condition since he was a child. She saves him by doing this.

We next see her in act 5 scene 1. She is asleep and she is sleepwalking and talking in her sleep. She is saying stuff like 'out, damned spot! Out I say' She is talking about the guilt she is suffering about killing the king. There is no real blood; it is the blood of the King that she is imagining on her hands. She is saying that the smell of the blood is so overpowering that all the perfumes of Arabia could not sweeten this little hand.

We don't see Lady Macbeth again in the play, we only hear of her killing herself because of the guilt she is suffering over killing the King of Scotland.