Lady Macbeth 2 Essay, Research Paper

(1.5.57-58) In this scene Lady Macbeth believes that Macbeth lacks the ability to fulfil the witches second prophecy. She learns that Duncan is coming to visit her and she calls upon supernatural agents to fill her with cruelty. Lady Macbeth says Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell In this quote she is asking the supernatural agents to fill her with the darkest smoke of hell.

(5.1.38) In this scene a gentlewoman who waits on Lady Macbeth has seen her walking in her sleep and has asked a doctor s advice. Together they observe Lady Macbeth make the gestures of repeatedly washing her hands as she relives the horrors that she and Macbeth have carried out and experienced. Lady Macbeth says Hell is murky. She is remembering the murder that she and Macbeth committed. She states, Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? remembering how bloody the Macbeth s hands were. She felt horrified that they had committed this evil act of murder.

These two quotes go together because first she is asking to be filled with the darkness of hell and then says later in the play that hell is murky. These two quotes show that she had asked to be filled with hell and then later after committing these sinful actions she describes hell as being dark and unclear.

(2.2.82-83) Here in this scene Lady Macbeth is talking to Macbeth about the murdering of Duncan. Macbeth s hands were red with blood from killing Duncan and Lady Macbeth says My hands are of your color, but I shame To wear a heart so white. This quote means that she is in the middle of this incident but she wishes not to be in it because of its brutality. She feels ashamed because she made Macbeth make sure he fulfilled the witches prophecies.

(5.1.44-45) In this scene Lady Macbeth is sleep walking and is commenting on the wife of the Thane of Fife. The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now? This quote shows that she is afraid now for her and her husband. She realizes that the consequences of their actions will now decide their future, and her future does not look good. She is also wondering if she will ever be forgiven for her and her husbands evil actions.

These two quotes show how Lady Macbeth feels about being a wife of a thane and about the murdering of Duncan. She also feels ashamed for her actions and then realizes later in the play that these actions are what may be her demise.

(2.2.86-87) A little water clears us of this deed. How easy is it, then! This refers to when Lady Macbeth is talking to Macbeth about killing Duncan. She is saying that this deed will go unnoticed. She feels a little excitement because the deed will be disregarded very easily but she is also a little ashamed. She also might be thinking that this action was too easy and feels a little suspicious.

(5.1.45) What, will these hands ne er be clean? In this scene Lady Macbeth is trying to wash away her sins that she and Macbeth committed. She is trying to relieve herself of the horrors she and Macbeth experienced. She is watched by the doctor and he says that she needs spiritual aid and not physical aid.

These two quotes are ironic. In the beginning of the play she says how easy it will be to disregard their actions but later in the play she repeatedly washes her hands trying to rid herself of the horrors and simply can not. She tries it over and over but she can not seem to relieve herself.

All these quotes show how Lady Macbeth grows throughout the play. It shows her emotions and feelings mostly towards the murder of Duncan and her husbands actions. You see her go through some very emotional chaos and at the end of the play she can not take this chaos and dies.