Lady Macbeth's Plan to Kill the King

Lady Macbeth's Plan to Kill the King

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  • Date Submitted: 01/07/2009 8:23 AM
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Lady Macbeth Furthermore, Lady Macbeth knows her husband well. She thinks he may be too kind in order to murder King Duncan. At first Macbeth disagrees with the assassination of Duncan. But later Macbeth decides to fulfil the deed. This may be because Duncan’s son will become the new king of Scotland so the only way he could be king would be to kill Duncan and blame it on Duncan’s son. But Lady Macbeth is sure that being king is what Macbeth really wants and that this is the best for both of them. So, in response to Macbeth's uncertainty, Lady Macbeth manipulates him by questioning his manhood and his love for her. She is successful because regardless of his own conscience Macbeth carries out their plan of murder. We also see that Lady Macbeth rallies for the occasion and her artful and sly ability are shown through her attention to detail regarding the murder. When Macbeth returns to their chamber she goes back to the murder scene and smears the grooms with Duncan's blood. However, her morals had prevailed just a while before as revealed through her comment that she would have killed Duncan herself had he not "resembled her father as he slept". This shows that she can still feel remorse for some deeds and so it is putting more dents in her apparently remorse proof armour.

Perhaps Lady Macbeth felt that suppressing her conscience for the deed was enough yet later the memory of the deed would be here down fall. The outcome is not this way, though, because Macbeth and Lady Macbeth often cannot go to sleep, and if they do, they experience terrifying dreams. But still, Lady Macbeth is able to maintain sane and be able to be her normal self during the day but later, in her dreams it is a different side to her and even more than her husband has switched roles because she at the beginning was shown to be hard and used phrases like ‘a little water will clean us of this deed’ but later she is cannot contain her remorse any longer but Macbeth is so full of bad deeds...

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