Lady Macbeth Greed Quotes

The connection between Lady Macbeth and greed helps the audience understand the driving force of Lady Macbeth’s actions in Shakespeare's play, Macbeth. After Lady Macbeth reads of the witches’ prophecies for her husband, she becomes obsessed with her own greed for the crown. Greed creates a monster out of Lady Macbeth and as she calls to the evil spirits, she says, “unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe with direst cruelty!” (1. 5. 39-41). In this quote, Lady Macbeth is praying to evil spirits to make her not act like woman and to make her as cruel as possible so that she feels no remorse for her actions. She does this because she knows that to quench her greed, she must kill the king. Later on, she talks with her husband about