Lady Mcbeth

Lady Macbeth is Macbeth’s wife. She fulfills her role among the nobility and is well respected like Macbeth. She is admired by others. King Duncan refers to her as “our honored hostess”. She is loving to her husband but at the same time she is very ambitious. Macbeth tells his wife of the witches’ prophecy that he is to become king. Lady Macbeth decides that the fastest way for Macbeth to become king is by murdering King Duncan, so she persuades him to do it so he can achieve his destiny. The death of King Duncan will benefit her and her husband equally. When Lady Macbeth is telling herself that she can murder the king, she cries out, “Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty.” She wants the fates to “unsex” her so that she may get rid of her feminine qualities, such as remorse and kindness. She wants to be cruel and coldblooded so that she can carry out the plot against King Duncan. However, she states that she would have killed Duncan herself had he not resembled her father as he slept. Lady Macbeth continues, “Stop up the access and passage to remorse that no compunctious visiting of nature shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between the effect and it. Come to my woman’s breasts and take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers.” Lady Macbeth wants to be rid of a human conscience. She also calls upon demons to aid her in her task. She wants to be unnatural and believes that demons can provide her with her needs. This shows that Lady Macbeth was very superstitious. Macbeth says that a real man would not commit murder. Lady Macbeth replies, “What beast was it, then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; and to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man...They have made themselves, and that their fitness now does unmake you.” Lady Macbeth remains adamant and pressures him with