Lady Macbeth

She knows Macbeth is ambitious but fears that his better nature may prevail, preventing him from reaching his goals

Yet do I fear thy nature it is too full o’th milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way

She is determined and resolute that she will do whatever it takes to ensure she will be queen

That I may pour my spirits in thine ear

Calls upon the evil spirits

Come, you spirits that tend on moral thoughts

Craves the evil spirited to remove her femininity and replacing it with direst cruelty so she will be able to do whatever is deemed necessary to ensure she’ll be queen

Unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty

She learns about the arrival of Duncan

O’ never shall sun that morrow see

Asks Macbeth if he is too weak and afraid to pursue his dreams

Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act and valour as thou art in desire?

Questions her husbands masculinity

When you durst do it then you were a man

Criticises Macbeth for not finishing the job properly so she must now return to the scene

Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers

Tells Macbeth that her hands are equally as dirty but she will not let that get to her like he is

My hands are of your colour but I shame to wear a heart so white

Believes that water will wash away the visible blood but doesn’t take in account the guilt and psychological effects

A little water clears us of this deed

Asks Macbeth how he has allowed his foolishness to diminish his manhood

What, quite unmanned in folly?

Informs her husband she is ashamed of him

Fie, for shame!

Frustrated and trying to get rid of the guilt, now imagining her hands are still stained with Duncan’s blood

Out, dammed spot! Out I say

Delusional and subconsciously reveals her role in the murder of king Duncan

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood left in him

Similar to Macbeth she hallucinates, convinced that her hands will never be clean again, losing her grip on reality

The thane of Fife had a wife, where is she now?

She believes she can hear knocking, paranoia is set in

To bed, to bed: there’s knocking at the gate

Haunted by guilt ridden visions her nerves are now starting to disintegrate, she’s heading to a nervous breakdown, finally realises that it was not a simple as washing her hands clean

What’s done cannot be undone

Doctor asks woman tending to her to remove all objects she could harm herself with and they’re concerned she’s suicidal

Remove from her the means of all annoyance and still keep eyes upon her

Manipulated Macbeth to look innocent but act through evil

Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t

She reassures her husband they won’t get caught as it will be seen that the two guards killed Duncan

Will it not be received when we have marked with blood those sleepy two of his own chamber