Lady Macbeth's Character Analysis

(Enter Lady Macbeth)

Lady Macbeth
The alcohol that made the guards drunk has made me confident. What quenched their thirst has set me on fire. Listen!- Peace.
It was the owl that shrieked, the town crier that announces the death of people. Macbeth should be doing his part.
The doors to Duncan’s room are open and the guards are drunk and asleep when they should be guarding the king. I have drugged them so much that it is hard to tell if they are dead or alive.

Macbeth
Who’s there? What’s going on?

Lady Macbeth
Damn, I think the guards woke up
And the king has not yet been killed. Just trying to kill the king and not actually killing him puts us in a very difficult position.
Listen!- I set out the daggers, there’s no way Macbeth missed them.
Lady Macbeth Yes.

Macbeth Listen!- Who’s in the second chamber?

Lady Macbeth Donalbain.

Macbeth This is terrible.

Lady Macbeth That’s stupid.

Macbeth One of the guards laughed in his sleep and another one yelled “Murder!” They woke each other up. I stood there and listened to them. But then they said their prayers and fell asleep again.

Lady Macbeth Two of them are sleeping in the same room.

Macbeth One said “God bless us” and the other said “Amen” As is they had seen me with my bloody hands, Hearing the fear in their voice. I couldn’t bring myself to say “Amen” After they said “God bless us.”

Lady Macbeth Don’t think about it too much.

Macbeth But why couldn’t I say “Amen”? I needed God’s blessing and the word “Amen” was stuck in my throat.

Lady Macbeth We can not think about what we have done or else we will go crazy.

Macbeth I thought I heard a voice say “Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep”- the innocent sleep,
Sleep that takes care of our worries,
That ends each day, that restores us physically and mentally, life’s main course,
The main food of life.

Lady Macbeth What do you mean?

Macbeth The voice still said “Sleep no more!” to everyone in the
I’m afraid to think about what I did. I don’t want to see what I did.

Lady Macbeth
You’re useless. Give me the daggers. Those asleep and dead look just like a picture which can’t hurt you. If Duncan bleeds more I’ll just smear it on the guards to make it seem like it was them who killed Duncan.

(Lady Macbeth exits with the daggers)

Macbeth Where is the knocking coming from? Why does every sound make me scared?
Look at these hands! Ha, they look as if they pulled out my eyes. Will all the water in the ocean wash away the blood on my hands? No, I have so much blood on my hands that the green sea would become bloody.

(Enter Lady Macbeth)

Lady Macbeth My hands are covered in blood like yours but I would be ashamed to be as weak as you. (Knock)

I heard knocking from the south entry. We should go to our room. A little water will erase all evidence. How easy is that? You’re acting crazy.

(Knock) Listen, more knocking. Put on your nightgown in case someone calls for us and asks why we are still awake. Stop thinking about it so much.

Macbeth I don’t recognize myself, but knowing what I did, I would not want to know myself.

(Knock) Wake up with the knocking duncan. I wish you would wake up.

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