After thinking of murdering the King, she thinks about blaming someone else for it, this means that she is thinking ahead and is very intellectual, as she tries to blame the guards for it and the King’s children. This shows that she is ready to the murder the King and that she believes that she can do it so this shows that she is well prepared, as she has planned it all out. Also revealed in the play is that she is a manipulative and callous person as she thinks that she can just blame someone else for what she was going to do.
When the King comes to stay at their castle, Lady Macbeth treats the king as normally as she would even though she has malevolent thoughts in her mind. This merely shows that she is an excellent actor and can conceal away her feelings and thoughts about other people, and what she is going to do to them.
She wanted to kill the King so that she would be Queen, her ambitions to kill the King motivated her on but when she saw him sleeping, she could not do it as she said that it reminded her of her father. She knew that she was not going to murder the King because she thought that her being a woman dragged her down so during the whole play she tried to become a man. We know this because she said, “Unsex me here”. People can see Lady Macbeth as an evil person, as she says things such she would like to hit babies’ heads against trees. This makes her look like a person on the dark side. She tries to fool heaven and this shows she is very supercilious. The gods and the evil spirits just ignore her and this brings down her power. She said that the king looked like her father, this was a way for her to explain why she could not kill the king, but it is really, because she was scared, because of this she has to persuade Macbeth to murder the king
Her main part in the play is to make her husband kill the king. After a few times of telling him to do it she gets annoyed and starts to become more bossy and domineering. You can see this in the play as when Macbeth asks simple questions about the king, such, as, if he asks for him she gets angry and says, “You know he does.” This shows that at this she is domineering one out of them. You could also interpret this line as her being well informed, as she knows what is happening.
After Macbeth has murdered the king, Lady Macbeth tries to stay calm and tries not to worry. She tries to comfort Macbeth and make him feel like it was nothing. She acted in a nervy way and thought of what to do quickly under pressure. She told Macbeth to wash his hands and go to bed. She said this so if the body of the dead King were found, they would not be accused, as they would have an alibi. She also said to the near broken-down Macbeth that after washing his hands the tie to the murder would be broken. This signifies that she thinks that the murder was no big thing and they should forget it ever happened. She believes that if the problem is ignored the problem would then also go away.
She always tries to be on the positive side as when she heard about the witches saying that Macbeth would king, she believed it straight away, but when the supernatural thing is not doing good for her she tries to block it out and say its not possible. Such as when Macbeth says that he saw the ghost of Banquo, she tries to believe that it is not real. In addition, when Macbeth saw the ghost of Banquo in front of other people, and said things, which he should not have said about the murder Lady Macbeth comes to the rescue. She says that he has a fit so the people do not think that he was the murderer. This shows that Lady Macbeth is quick minded and is used to lying.
In this play, Lady Macbeth tries to persuade Macbeth to kill the king. She thinks that he will not do this as she thinks that he is too good and that he’s “full o’ the milk of human kindness.” She thinks that he is not as bad as she is and if he does not become like her than he will not be King. She also thinks that her husband is not as ambitious as she is in becoming King. To persuade Macbeth further, she says that he is “not a real man” and this gets him very angry and makes him feel like he has to prove something to her and himself. She knows the buttons to press in a man and knows that this would enrage him enough to go through with the killing of the king.
She knows that if she is going to do this she has not to show any emotions on her face, but inside she is evil, ambitious person who knows that the king cannot understand faces. On the other hand, she can. She says in the play that she is going to look like the flower but be the serpent under it. This means she is going to hide away her real feelings of killing the King but look like the flower, which means that she is going to show to the King that she is a humble follower just like the other people, but inside she has dark, evil thoughts.
Lady Macbeth’s main role in this play is to drive Macbeth on to killing the King and make him feel like he is done nothing wrong. She does this by mainly telling him that if he doesn’t do it than he is not a real man. Lady Macbeth was going to kill the king in the beginning until she said that the King looked like her father, I think that this shows that she was too scared to do it and therefore is a hypocrite, as she says that he is “infirm of purpose,” but she didn’t do it either!
In the play the main roles switch near the end as Macbeth realises that he did the deed and that he was King. This made him stop listening to her in the same way, as before, he now didn’t need to listen to her, as he was the more powerful. Lady Macbeth’s character goes from being a domineering person who then goes to calling her husband a higher rank like “my worthy lord.” Her declining influence in the play continues on until in the end when she commits suicide. She becomes a patient, as she could not handle the killing of the King, even though Macbeth was the first to show symptoms of remorse as he could not sleep and it is shown as he says, “sleep is murdered.” Macbeth starts to refer to her as a patient instead of his wife. So from being an equal to her husband she became lesser. She was even kept out of the play for two scenes to emphasise this.
