Our first impression of Lady Macbeth is when she is reading the letter from Macbeth she thinks that Macbeth will not have enough evil in him to become the king because he would have to kill the king. When she says, “ catch the nearest way” by this means that he does not have the evil to do this deed. She plans to make Macbeth kill the king quickly and she belives that fortune destiny are in their favour. When Macbeth comes back she tells him that their fortune is going to be good together and they will spend the rest of their days as king and queen.
In act one scene 7, Lady Macbeth is trying to get Macbeth to kill king Duncan but Macbeth wont and then she starts to insult Macbeth by calling him a coward she also says if he doesn’t kill the king he wont be a man. She says to him “when durst do it, then you were a man”. Eventually she gets him to say yes and he says “If he we should fail” Lady Macbeth says “we fail” which shows that he is thinking of not doing it again. So in this scene she is being very persuasive and getting Macbeth to become king. This shows that she is a leader and in control of him and very powerful minded and stronger than Macbeth.
Lady Macbeth prepartions for king Duncan’s killing in Act two scene two are to make the guards go to sleep by giving them something in there drink she also puts blood over them after the murder and the swards also. She says she would have killed the king herself but he looked like her father when he was sleeping. With Macbeths fears she belives that she is more of a man than he is and that she should be a woman. She takes control of everything easily. She tells him to keep calm and not to panic. Then she returns the daggers and after this, she that her hands are the same as Macbeth’s but she is not as scared or guilty as he is and she was too ashamed to be like him. Then she says by washing her hands she is clear of the crime. When there is knocking at the door Macbeth wishes that it would wake king Duncan up. This shows that he is already regrets the murder.
Then in Act two scene three Macbeth tries to shift the blame off himself and move it on to the guards. He also killed them straight away so they could not clear themselves so that he would that he would not be suspected for the murder. He explains to every one he killed them. He says he killed them because he was so angry at them for killing the king. When Lady Macbeth sees the dead guards she acts very shocked and then she faints at one point, but she might have faked it because Macbeth was acting very badly and was looking a bit guilty so she might have done this to try to take attention off Macbeth. When she is doing this she is showing that she is looking after Macbeth and protecting him from everyone this shows that she is in control and is like a big brother looking after Macbeth like this. She is in control and in charge of him. Banquo tells Fealance to run away because Macbeth is going to kill him. When he escapes Macbeth fears for his throne returns and he becomes pardoned again.
I Act 3 Scene 4 Macbeth starts to hallucinate. Lady Macbeth tells every one to carry on as normal and ignore it. She also says that he has done it before. She is also worried he might give away one of the secrets about killing king Duncan, or anything afterwards that might gibe them away. From now on they start to not work as a team and begin to lose touch with each other. Lady Macbeth also tells the guests if they do not look at Macbeth he should soon stop it. Lady Macbeth mocks Macbeth about his hallucinations and thinks he should be dealing with them better than he is. Then Lady Macbeth says that his imagination would suit an old woman gossiping around a campfire. She says to him “Are you man?” this insults his manhood and then she also says “What? Quite unmaned in fally” all of this makes him feel small and foolish when she mocks him. This makes them drift apart and Macbeth cant tell Lady Macbeth things about how he is often afraid because he thinks that she will laugh at him. The next thing Macbeth decides to do is to go and see the witches. This is because he needs their advice on what things are going on.
In Act 3 Scene 5 after Macbeth has met the witches he decides to make up his mind straight away and not wait around. After he decides to go and kill Macduff’s family he does it straight away. While he does this, Macduff is in England getting an army together to fight Macbeth. Now Macbeth and Lady Macbeth don’t work as a team. They don’t any more. They do completely different things.
Lady Macbeth has changed so much that she has gone insane. She sleep walk and talks in her sleep about the murder and what she has done. I think at first she didn’t feel guilty but it had been slowly eating away at her and she tried to hide it, but she could not hide it any more. It all has had a massive effect on her. This shows that she does have feelings and that she has emotions. This shows that she is human and not completely feeling less.
People in Elizabethan times believed strongly in heaven and hell and in witchcraft. They would have thought Macbeth and Lady Macbeth would go to hell for eternity for their sins. Also any one involved in it was seen as evil and should go to hell. Elizabethans thought that woman should not work but they should stay at home and look after their house but if there where rich they would have servants to do most of the house work. Woman where seen as they should be quite not assertive and not really be out going and loud. Lady Macbeth does not fit in with the normal roles for woman because she is assertive she was also in control and wont just sit there and say nothing but she takes control of people and is more like a man. Elizabethans would have thought Lady Macbeth was very strange and odd also that she was out of place.
Lady Macbeth was very important to the play because with out her Macbeth would not have killed king Duncan because she egged him on and gave him lots of support she also came up with the plan of how to do the murder.
Lady Macbeth’s behaviour seems out of place because she is assertive and mainly in control of most things and most people are shocked that she is a woman . but you can understand her being frustrated because being an ambitious woman but at a time when woman are meant to stay quite and out of the way and see as not important. She musted have felt boxed in and helpless about doing what she wants to do in life
Lady Macbeth motivations might have been that she was very ambitious but could go nowhere in life with out her husband actually doing so. When she read the letter this gave her the chance to become really important by getting Macbeth to kill king Duncan she would become queen. I don’t think Lady Macbeth would have egged Macbeth on if she knew what all of the consequences would be. She thought it was just one person who they had to murder but it carried on and on and more people were killed. She thought it would have been simple when it was not.
I think that Lady Macbeth wanted to be queen and was very ambitious but all the killing and keeping it a secret ate away at her and every day she was queen she would have been reminded of it. So I think she was too greedy for herself and didn’t know when to draw the line. She was ambitious woman but she should have known she would not have been able to get away with it. She should have known the guilt would catch up with her in the end.
