Lady Macbeth Murder Analysis

When someone wants something, they will do what they can to attain it. If they want it bad enough, they will do absolutely anything, including murder. In the Shakespearean play “Macbeth,” this is shown to be true with Lady Macbeth and Macbeth in Acts 1 and 2 when they are planning to kill King Duncan. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth both act differently before and after the murder. Men are stereotypically tough and courageous, and women are stereotypically nice and gentle characters. In “Macbeth” this may not be entirely true. Lady Macbeth may be much crueler and malicious than Macbeth in the first two acts.

In Act 1 scene 3 Macbeth encounters three witches that hail him as three things: Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and King. He is already Thane of Glamis, and does not believe that he will become Thane of Cawdor ,or the King for that matter. Shortly after the meeting with the witches, he learns that he has been proclaimed the Thane of Cawdor. This surprises him for he doubted that the witches prophecies would come true. Then he writes a letter to his wife, Lady Macbeth, explaining what has been foretold, and what has happened. After Macbeth comes back to his home and tells her that King Duncan comes that night and will leave the next day, Lady Macbeth says “ O,
Here she is wondering why it is taking so long for her husband to return, and says “... Had he not resembled/ My father as he slept, I had done’t (2.2. 16-17).” This basically states that she would have done the deed herself if the king did not resemble her father. When Macbeth returns, he still has Duncan’s chamberlains’ daggers, that are still covered in blood, in his hands. Lady Macbeth is irritated that he still has the daggers, while Macbeth is in shock from what he just did. She takes the daggers back to the chamberlains and smears the king’s blood on them. She is not horrified by the