After this stage Lady Macbeth starts planning the murder of Duncan, this occurs straight after she read the letter sent by Macbeth. Lady Macbeth says, “shake my fell purpose”, this line indicates lady Macbeths plan and that she is ready to get Duncan killed. The following scene is between Macbeth and lady Macbeth. Here her strong ambitions alter her into convincing Macbeth into murder. Her strength and Macbeths weak personality allows this to happen. For example Macbeth says, “ away and mock the time with the fairest show”.
On the outside Lady Macbeth is considered as loyal and heartwarming. She also puts on an act in front of King Duncan as an angel. In return she gets a positive response when Duncan says “See, see our honored hostess, the love that follows us sometime is our trouble”. Later on lady Macbeth plan turns out to be a success but when Macbeth returns with daggers and doesn’t place them where she told him. She is ashamed of him and considers him “unmanly”, so this motivates her into replacing the daggers upon the chamber loins her self. Her reaction to Duncan’s death is also very appalling, she faints at the news of Duncan’s death, but the real reason behind is to cover up her husband, since the attention is upon Macbeth who is pressured with questions.
Later on in the play lady Macbeth changes she gets confused and is enable to keep control of Macbeth as before. This is representing in a scene when she says, “What’s to be done?” this automatically tells the reader that lady Macbeth is unaware of the plans and actions Macbeth is considering. Further on during the play Macbeth helps her husband even more at the banquet scenes, Macbeth hallucinations; bring a bad reputation as a king. When Macbeth starts panicking lady Macbeth comes to the rescue when she says, “and hath been from his youth: pray you, keep seat…if you note him you shall offend him”. This tells the reader that lady Macbeth is concealing Macbeth identity and his hallucinations. Lady Macbeth than drives the people from the banquet hall and has a tiny chat with Macbeth alone. Here she gets to know what really happened. In this scene it shows how much control she has over Macbeth, which is lessening by the minute. This scene motivates lady Macbeth into doing a various number of things in the play.
Lady Macbeth is not seen in the play till the end during a scene where she is sleepwalking. In her sleepwalking she performs awkward things such as repeating the words “sleep no more” and the action of washing her hands. This conveys the message to the reader that lady Macbeth state of mind has weakened totally. This also proves the fact that she is disturbed from the murder of Duncan and the recent murders that are talking place. This scene of sleepwalking leads her into killing herself in the end. Which shows that after all Lady Macbeth strong personality turned out to be weak in the end.
In the end Macbeth is informed of her death, before he goes to fight Mac duff, so overall one can see the different factors that have motivated lady Macbeth. One big factor is her personality and Macbeth himself. The witches again have played a key role, as they started the whole thing by misguiding Macbeth. On the whole lady Macbeth had been motivated by a various number of things, which have lead a huge change in her personality and her life itself.
