Lady Macbeth persuades her husband to come home early a she wants him to undertake the plan with her. While Lady Macbeth is planning thing and tampering with fate, Macbeth is prepared to do anything even though he believes the witches. I quote “even chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without stir.”
Macbeth is unaware that his wife is planning the murder of King Duncan. Although murdering King Duncan entered his mind, he has no ambition of doing such a thing. I quote “my thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical.”
When Lady Macbeth hears that King Duncan is on his way, she plans the murder. Lady Macbeth fears that her feminity will stop the plan going ahead so she goes to call evil spirits and asks to take away all her good qualities and fill her with evil and cruelty. I quote “unsex me here…” By her doing that it shows that she believes in the supernatural and its abilities, therefore this proves her belief in the witches too.
Macbeth is surprised at his wife’s ambition and deceit. I quote “your face my thane, is as a book when men may read strange matters.”
Lady Macbeth continues to organise everything on her own. I quote “leave all the rest to me,” and she tells her husband to “look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under” and however Macbeth is not convinced and tells his wife they’ll talk later.
In scene 7, Macbeth finds more reasons not to go ahead with the plan. Macbeth’s ambition is his only reason to commit regicide. Macbeth soon tells his wife that they will not go further in this plan.
Lady Macbeth tries to encourage her husband to kill Duncan by questioning his manhood and bravery. I quote “art thou afeared to be the same in thine own act and valour as thou art in desire?” and “when you durst do it, then you were a man, and to be more than what you were, you would be so much more than a man” she also tries emotional blackmail, I quote “what beast was’t then, that made you break this enterprise to me? Means what made you break your promise to me” Macbeth never promised himself, only told his wife of “what greatness is promised thee.”
Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth she would rather kill her own child than ever break a promise to Macbeth, just thirty lines of the dialogue, Macbeth has already changed his mind. This clearly shows that he is weak and easily manipulated so he agrees to carry out the murder with his wife.
However when it got down to doing the murder itself lady Macbeth didn’t have as much courage as she wanted to. She is on edge as one owl shrieks and causes her to jump. She gets Macbeth to murder Duncan she wouldn’t do it because Duncan looked like her father, I quote “had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t” this clearly shows the evil spirits that were meant to free her from her feminity didn’t work, because she still feels something and isn’t so cruel although she still wants the murder to be done. When Macbeth gets back she is once again in control even though she is on the edge. She does not seem to feel guilty for Duncan’s murder, this could possible be because she did not witness Duncan’s murder herself.
Poor Macbeth seems to be in shock at what he’s just done, I quote “this is a sorry sight” so lady Macbeth helps to wash the blood from her husbands hands, to make him feel less guilty.
She soon discovers the daggers on her husband and he refuses to go back and frame the grooms. She takes the dagger back herself and covers them with blood. When she gets back she is just as confident as before, her hands as bloody as Macbeth’s but she claims, “a little water clears us of this deed”
Lady Macbeth and Macbeth soon go to bed waiting for the murder to be uncovered. In this I think lady Macbeth was very ambitious although I doubt Macbeth would have committed the murder of king Duncan, if it weren’t for lady Macbeth because she manipulated him. After Duncan’s murder she remained guiltless and Macbeth was the one left with the guilty conscience, but at the end of the play lady Macbeth’s guilty conscience caught up with her and she committed suicide.
In my opinion I believe lady Macbeth was not all to blame for Duncan’s death more than Macbeth and I think the witches were more to blame as they started the whole event by encouraging Macbeth to believe in his fate and ambition two hard
