The point illustrates that Lady Macbeth is a cold hearted and evil person.
‘ I have given suck and know how tender ‘ tis to love
The babe that milks me: I would while it was
Smiling in my face, have pluck’d my nipple
From his boneless gums, and dash’d the
Brains out’
Lady Macbeth uses terrible, violent and thudding imagery as a shock tactic. The audience would be shocked. Lady Macbeth is trying to induce Macbeth by saying she would have killed her child if it meant keeping a promise. This shows Lady Macbeth is a cold hearted and evil person because no mother could kill her child.
Lady Macbeth is a manipulative woman who would go to any extreme lengths to get what she wants.
‘ When you durst do it, then you were a man and to
Be more than you were you would be so much
More the man’
Lady Macbeth is manipulating Macbeth by saying you will be more of a man once you have killed king Duncan. This shows she is clever a quick thinker and an intelligent women. This quote relates to the title of the essay because she is forcing Macbeth to kill king Duncan, which is just as bad as killing the King. This shows she is a fiend like queen because she is manipulative.
The point indicates that Lady Macbeth is happy what Macbeth has done.
‘ The sleeping and, the dead are as
But as pictures’
The quotation emphasis that she has no regards for the dead. This proves Lady Macbeth is a cruel and brutal person because if you kill someone you would feel guilty and would not describe him or her as still pictures.
The point depicts that she is proud of the murder of king Duncan.
‘ My hands are of your colour: but I shame
To wear a heart so white ‘
Lady Macbeth is expressing that my hands are full of blood, but I am not afraid about what has happened. This proves she is a ‘fiend like queen’ because she is not concerned about the murder of King Duncan.
The point evokes that Lady Macbeth is a sly and cunning person.
‘ I may pour my spirits in thine ear’
Lady Macbeth is saying she is going to poison Macbeth with these nasty thoughts so he will in the end listen to her. This proves she is a sly and cunning person because she is putting nasty thoughts in his mind for example to kill King Duncan.
Also there are instances in the play that Lady Macbeth exhibits human qualities one of the points is towards the end of the play in the sleep walking scene
‘ All the perfumes of Arabia will not
Sweeten this little hand ’
Lady Macbeth uses hyperbole and she emphasises the enormity of her guilt, this echoes when Macbeth says ‘Sleep no more’ the state of mind Macbeth is enough. This shows her downfall because she starts to speak in prose this proves she is weak, unstable and losing her mind.
The point notify’s that lady Macbeth is now feeling guilty about the murder of King Duncan.
‘ Who would have thought the old man to have
To have so much blood in him ’
Lady Macbeth says this about Duncan because she can wash the blood off her hand but she cannot cleanse the blood off. This proves she is not a ‘fiend like queen’ because she is feeling guilty and she cannot stop thinking about the murder it shows she has a human side to her, I think she is sarcastic.
This explores the fact that Macbeth has no feelings towards Lady Macbeth.
‘ She should have died here after’
This is Macbeths response he says she was going to die one day anyway. Macbeth is calm and is not bothered it shows he has no Human feelings, this finalises her downfall because even her husband does not care.
I think Lady Macbeth is a ‘ fiend like queen ‘ because she is evil minded, cold hearted and she is very cruel, someone who is cold hearted is un-human there are a beast. Lady Macbeth was practical minded, she had organised her part or the murder well, also she was more powerful than Macbeth and she had control over Macbeth.
Just before Macbeth was going to kill king Duncan, Lady Macbeth drugged the guard’s drink. ‘That hath made them drink, hath made me bold.’ She was very proud about what she had done, she was boosting about it, this proves she is a ‘fiend like queen’, because you would not be proud that someone is about to be killed, and you would have a guilty conscious. After Macbeth had killed King Duncan he bought the daggers with him he had blood all over his hands, he was feeling extremely guilt about what he has done. ‘With all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood from my hand’ he is saying the blood will not wash away but the ocean will go red, and the guilt will never go away, where as Lady Macbeth was happy about the murder. Lady Macbeth told Macbeth to put the daggers back to the scene of the crime, but he was scared, Lady Macbeth describes the king as still pictures. Lady Macbeth then went to put the daggers back she says to Macbeth my hands are full of blood, but I am not bothered it will be washed away. ‘ My hands are of your colour: but I shame to wear a heart so white.’
When everyone found out King Duncan was dead and Macbeth chops the guard’s head of, Lady Macbeth fainted to get the attention away from Macbeth this shows that Lady Macbeth is clever and a quick thinker, also Lady Macbeth had not planned for that to happen. Macbeth is becoming more self-minded and more powerful. Lady Macbeth is not powerful with out Macbeth and Lady Macbeth is feeling less powerful and guiltier.
I also think Lady Macbeth is not a ‘fiend like queen’ because towards the end of the play Lady Macbeth is feeling guilty and Macbeth is feeling more powerful. Lady Macbeth has a human side of her because she cannot kill King Duncan because he has her father’s features. Lady Macbeth starts to sleepwalk and says the badness will not sweeten because there is not enough perfume. ‘ All the perfumes of Arabia, will not sweeten this little hand ‘, also she is feeling extremely guilty and says she can wash the blood off her hands, but it will not cleanse the blood off. And she dies because of the guilt, this shows her downfall we know this because in act 5 scene 1 she starts to speak in prose also when she dies Macbeth is not bothered she has died he says she was going to die one day anyway.
