Lady Macbeth is
influential. She is able to convince Macbeth to kill King
Duncan. When Macbeth was having second thoughts about murdering King Duncan, Lady
Macbeth asks is he afraid. She is highly effective in influencing Macbeth to follow
through with the murder. He gives in:
I’m convinced, and I commit
Every part
of my body to this terrible event.
Let’s go and pass the time by pretending to
be happy.
False faces must hide what the false heart
knows.
Lady Macbeth
is determined. She will not allow
Macbeth to change his mind. When he had in fact decided against the murder of King
Duncan, she uses manipulation to control him. She challenges his manhood by asking him
if he is afraid:
Are you afraid
To be the same man in
reality
As the one you wish to be? Would you have the crown
Which
you believe to be the ornament of life,
And yet live like a coward in your own
self-esteem,
Lady Macbeth
is evil. She does not seem to care
that King Duncan has honored her husband. She disregards King Duncan's praise of her
husband. She insists that she would kill King Duncan herself had he not resembled her
father as he slept:
If the King hadn’t resembled
My father
as he slept, I would’ve done it. My
husband!
Finally, Lady
Macbeth is guilty. She cannot sleep.
She cannot wash the bloodstains from her hands. She is losing her sanity. She is
overcome by guilt until she can not find rest for her soul. She walks through the castle
trying to rid her hands of bloodstains:
Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One; two; why,
then it is
time to do it. Hell is murky! For shame, my lord, for shame! A
soldier,
and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can
call
our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man
to
have had so much blood in
him.
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