Lady Macbeth Research Paper
Lady Macbeth is responsible for her own downfall due to her involvement with supernatural forces, her ambition and her guilty conscience.
Lady Macbeth claims that she can "look like the innocent flower/But be the serpent under 't" (1,5,64-65). She imagines that she has the capability to be remorseless and determined enough to do anything. Yet, she calls upon supernatural forces to use to her advantage. She does not ask for the help of the dark side' but demands it as though she could undermine the power of unearthly evil forces. She demands: "Come, you spirits/that tend on mortal thoughts! Unsex me here stop up the access and passage to remorse you murdering ministers come, thick night, / And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell nor the …show more content…
She immediately thinks that she and Macbeth will have to kill Duncan as she says "thou shalt be / What thou art promised" (1,5,14-15). She also decides that Macbeth is too good natured to kill the king, saying "it is too full o' the milk of human kindness" (1,5,16). After Lady Macbeth plots the murder of Duncan she learns that he will be making an appearance at the Macbeth house. She seems quite pleased with this new information as she says, "He brings great news. The raven himself is hoarse / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan" (1,5,37-38). Her ambition to have more power by being Queen is so great that she will do anything to get what she wants. However, once Lady Macbeth becomes Queen she also becomes very unhappy. She gets what she wants and still wants …show more content…
Her guilt was so great, that while she was sleep walking, she began to re-enact the murder of King Duncan. Lady Macbeth was actually scared of being caught as well as regretful to what she had done. One night while sleepwalking she begins saying:
Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One; two, why, then tis time do't. Hell is murky! Fie, my lord-fie! 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? (5,1,34-39)
When she speaks those words she was implying "Who can judge a King, when the King is the judge?" as well as " no one will be able to make us confess how we got this power." Lady Macbeth's guilt is further shown when she continues with "The Thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?/What, will these hands ne'er be clean?"(5,1,41-42). This implies that she knew about the murder of Lady Macduff and their son as well as others living with the Macduff's. All of this guilt and stress built up so high that it was eventually too much for her to handle. It was just too painful and the pressure was so overwhelming that she simply couldn't manage it anymore. The only solution that she deemed possible was to take her own
Lady Macbeth claims that she can "look like the innocent flower/But be the serpent under 't" (1,5,64-65). She imagines that she has the capability to be remorseless and determined enough to do anything. Yet, she calls upon supernatural forces to use to her advantage. She does not ask for the help of the dark side' but demands it as though she could undermine the power of unearthly evil forces. She demands: "Come, you spirits/that tend on mortal thoughts! Unsex me here stop up the access and passage to remorse you murdering ministers come, thick night, / And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell nor the …show more content…
She immediately thinks that she and Macbeth will have to kill Duncan as she says "thou shalt be / What thou art promised" (1,5,14-15). She also decides that Macbeth is too good natured to kill the king, saying "it is too full o' the milk of human kindness" (1,5,16). After Lady Macbeth plots the murder of Duncan she learns that he will be making an appearance at the Macbeth house. She seems quite pleased with this new information as she says, "He brings great news. The raven himself is hoarse / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan" (1,5,37-38). Her ambition to have more power by being Queen is so great that she will do anything to get what she wants. However, once Lady Macbeth becomes Queen she also becomes very unhappy. She gets what she wants and still wants …show more content…
Her guilt was so great, that while she was sleep walking, she began to re-enact the murder of King Duncan. Lady Macbeth was actually scared of being caught as well as regretful to what she had done. One night while sleepwalking she begins saying:
Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One; two, why, then tis time do't. Hell is murky! Fie, my lord-fie! 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? (5,1,34-39)
When she speaks those words she was implying "Who can judge a King, when the King is the judge?" as well as " no one will be able to make us confess how we got this power." Lady Macbeth's guilt is further shown when she continues with "The Thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?/What, will these hands ne'er be clean?"(5,1,41-42). This implies that she knew about the murder of Lady Macduff and their son as well as others living with the Macduff's. All of this guilt and stress built up so high that it was eventually too much for her to handle. It was just too painful and the pressure was so overwhelming that she simply couldn't manage it anymore. The only solution that she deemed possible was to take her own