Macbeth, Need opinions?

Question

Can u please give me your comments and analysis on the following lines from Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4, please tell me what they mean and how they relate to the rest of the play:

Lady Macbeth: Think of this, good peers, but as a thing of custom. 'Tis no other, Only it spoils the pleasure of the time.

Macbeth:
Can such things be, and overcome us like a summers cloud, without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that i owe, When now i think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, when mine is blanched with fear

Answer 1

Lady Macbeth is saying that murder and death are things that they should be getting used to.

Macbeth is saying that you can never be accustomed to something as terrible as murder and death. He is incredulous that his wife can accept it so easily when it makes him so fearful.

It is at this point that Macbeth is starting to realise what he has got himself into. Part of the main theme of the play is paradoxes (what seems to be good is bad, what seems to be bad is good). We would normally expect a female character to be compassionate and a male character to be fearless and aggressive. At this point in the play we are being shown that these roles have been reversed.

Answer 2

Lady Macbeth calmly explains away the appearance of Banquo's ghost and Macbeth wonders at ther ability to be calm in the presence of a murdered man's ghost.