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Lady Macbeth Observations
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Lady Macbeth is a women with ambition, she is not afraid to take action, “not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of what greatness is promised thee”
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Lady Macbeth does everything she can to get Macbeth to kill King Duncan
It is said that Lady Macbeth onve Dunvan was killed she was going to smear his blood on all his servants so they look responsible this shows how determined she is and dosn't car about the cost.

“But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we’ll not fail…”
“If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt.”
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Lady Macbeth is not phased by the death of King Duncan. She is readily able to erase any guilt that she has “A little water clears us of this deed: How easy is it then!”
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I feel as if Lady Macbeth knows in her gut that what they did was wrong but her mind what she was doing is right and just doesn't regret killing Duncan. She feels as if her husband is the wimp in the situation but in reality she would like to feel the same. “My hands are of your color, but I shame/To wear a heart so white.”
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Lady Macbeth deffently push Macbeth around she doesn't care that he is upset she just wants the job done "Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us
And show us to be watchers:—be not lost
So poorly in your thoughts." Macbeth Observations
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Macbeth looks ambitious like his wife, but he also seems like he wants to be of good moral and this conflicts with his plan to murder King Duncan. He's here in double trust: /First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, /Strong both against the deed: then, as his host, /Who should against his murderer shut the door, /Not bear the knife myself.”
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He is convinced by his wife to kill Duncan. He speaks to an invisible dagger, as if he is hallucinating. “Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, /Or else worth all the rest: I see thee

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