Lady Macbeth's Guilty Conscience Analysis

There are probably few people in this world who can deny the feeling of guilt. Some call that sinking feeling in the pit of the stomach or nagging voice in their head their conscience speaking to them. Shakespeare related that feeling to Lady Macbeth's guilty conscience of King Duncan's murder. In Macbeth, Shakespeare shows how Lady Macbeth tries to suppress her guilt and her conscience eats away at her.

Shakespeare shows how Lady Macbeth is aware of what she is about to do. When she finds out that the witches have suggested Macbeth will be king, she decides he is too kind to act on his own to “take the nearest way” killing Duncan and becoming king so she wants Macbeth to come to her so she can “pour [her evil] spirits in [his]
ther her too, so she calls upon the evil spirits to “unsex [her] here and fill [her] from the crown to toe topful of direst cruelty” hoping to achieve a change in her personality as she commands dark spirits to eliminate the basic biological characteristics of
Lady Macbeth claimed that Macbeth second guessing killing king Duncan lead him to be afraid “art thou to be the same in thine own act and valour as thou art in desire.” Lady Macbeth comes and uses her manipulative ways to persuade Macbeth to go ahead in murdering the king. “If we fail?” “But screw Macbeth's courage to the sticking place and we shall not fail!” (1-7 pg.3) Lady Macbeth is taking no for an answer. She calls Macbeth a coward for being afraid to go with what Lady Macbeth told him to do. In Shakespeare's Macbeth Lady Macbeth and Macbeth both show signs of what would today be diagnosed as symptoms of schizophrenia. Macbeth could have taken a completely different path like bonque Macbeth’s best friend did. Instead he let the thought of having power get to him and become greedy and power hungry leading Macbeth to become afraid of his surroundings and began to think everyone was after him even the people he once cared for Shakespeare reveals Lady Macbeth as a psychotic