Lady Macbeth is a cruel woman who is determined to motivate macbeth in his mission to become the new king,
In scene 5 we are intoduced to Lady Macbeth while she is reading a letter from her husband.
The letter she is reading accounts for all the details that macbeth has expeirienced, in particular the witches
and how they are becoming reality to macbeth, and also how they say he is going to be King, ''Hail, king that shalt be''.
Lady macbeth says to herself that Macbeth is ''too full 'o' the milk of human kindness'' (Act 1, Scene 5) for the necessary
evil to kill the existing monarch, King Duncan, Lady Macbeths evil and dark thoughts show us how determined she is and
show how easily she could Manipulate Macbeth, she says ''come thick night'' showing she wants it to be a dark night on
the night the murder is going to take place, she shows signs of evil when she calls upon the dark forces to fill her from
''the crown to the toe top-full'' with ''direst cruelty'' showing she wants her and Macbeth to not feel any remorse.
When calling upon the dark forces, Lady macbeth also says ''Unsex me'' and ''Make thick my blood'' showing that
she wants all of her feminime qualities to depart and Macbeths emotions and feelings removed which show how her
actions are becoming ruthless. Towards the end of scene 5, when Macbeth enters, Lady Macbeth cleaverly softens
him by speaking sweetly and saying things like ''my dearest love'' and then she brings up the subject of killing the
current King ''O, never shall sun that morrow see!'', while macbeth raises concern about the murder, Lady Macbeth
manages to presuade him.
At the beginning on scene six, Duncan says to lady macbeth ''How you shall big God 'ield us for your pains, and thank us for
your trouble'' which means he thinks that she deserves more however he doesn't realised that she is like a coin, she is two-faced,
she is only being polite to Duncan but in her heart, she wants him disposed of.
In scene seven Macbeth says that ''We will proceed no further in this business'', he doesn't want to murder Duncan but with
Lady Macbeths ruthless encouraging ways, she questions macbeths manhood by saying ''Where in you dressed yourself?''
which is questioning if hes a coward so he will question his manhood and eventually accept lady macbeths request.
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