Lady Macbeth Monologue

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tragedy in which the main characters are obsessed by the desire for power. Macbeth’s aspiration for power blinds him to the ethical implications of his dreadful acts. The more that Shakespeare’s Macbeth represses his murderous feelings, the more he is haunted by them. By analyzing his hallucinations it is possible to trace his deteriorating mental state and the trajectory of his ultimate fall. Throughout the play Macbeth is never satisfied with himself. He feels the need to keep committing crime in order to keep what he wants most: his kingship. The harder Macbeth tries to change his fate the more he tends to run into his fate. His ambition and struggle for power was Macbeth’s tragic flaw in the play.

Shakespeare’s play ‘Macbeth’ is about the leading male protagonist succumbing to his ambition and need for power. Though Macbeth is liable for his own actions, he is not solely responsible for the events that eventually result in his downfall. Macbeth is corrupted by his wife, Lady Macbeth, as well as the three weird sisters. Macbeth’s contribution towards his downfall is his strong ambitious nature. Lady Macbeth is the person who induces Macbeth to assassinate King Duncan. The three weird sisters (witches) play with Macbeth’s ambitious nature and sense of security. Macbeth’s downfall is due to himself and two external factors.

First came the pride, an overwhelming sense of achievement, an accomplishment due to great ambition, but slowly and enduringly surged a world of guilt and confusion, the conscience which I once thought diminished, began to grow, soon defeating the title and its rewards. Slowly the unforgotten memories from that merciless night overcame me and I succumbed to the incessant and horrific images, the bloody dagger, a lifeless corpse. I wash, I scrub, I tear at the flesh on my hands, trying desperately to cleanse myself of the blood. But the filthy witness remains, stained, never to be removed.

Lady Macbeth is first presented in the play when she receives a letter from her husband explaining that the weird sisters have prophesised his future as king. When she learns that King Duncan will be staying as their guest

First came the pride, an overwhelming sense of achievement, an accomplishment due to great ambition, but slowly and enduringly surged a world of guilt and confusion, the conscience which I once thought diminished, began to grow, soon defeating the title and its rewards. Slowly the unforgotten memories from that merciless night overcame me and I succumbed to the incessant and horrific images, the bloody dagger, a lifeless corpse. I wash, I scrub, I tear at the flesh on my hands, trying desperately to cleanse myself of the blood. But the filthy witness remains, stained, never to be removed.

Failure is a horrendous thing. It lives in the deepest part of even the most successful mans mind. It is constantly there waiting, lurking, breathing down ones neck. In moments of need one must pluck up courage in the face of fear and accomplish what needs to be accomplished. In Lady Macbeth’s words to her husband she is disgusted by his fear. Despite the grotesque acts Macbeth performed, she is urging him to continue on in the face of fear. If he, Macbeth, can not be courageous in the face of fear then he is in fact, no man at all. In Shakespeare Macbeth, Lady Macbeth uses pathos of masculinity, fear, and blame to persuade Macbeth to carry on and do the loathsome deed of murdering the king.

Lady Macbeth's ambitious nature was a large part of the play. Lady Macbeth often brought Macbeth's manhood into question whenever he was weary of going through with something, even something as atrocious as murder. For example, “Yet do I fear thy nature; / It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way”(1.5.14-16). In this quote she basically says that he is too much of a wuss to follow through with their plan to elevate their social status. Lady Macbeth was also the one who planted the daggers on the guards when Macbeth couldn't follow through with it. If she hadn't have done that there is a good chance that they could have been caught. She asks “Why did you bring these daggers from the place? / They must lie there:

Lady Macbeth’s strength of will persists through the murder of King Duncan as it is she who tries to calm Macbeth after committing the crime by declaring confidently that, “a little water clears us of this deed,” (2.2.67). Afterward, however, Lady Macbeth’s strong and ambitious character begins to deteriorate into madness. Her first sign of weakness occurred when she confessed that she could not have killed the king, revealing a natural woman’s feelings, “had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t” (2.2.13-14). Just as ambition has affected her before more so then Macbeth before the crime, the guilt plagues her now more effectively afterward as she desperately tried to wash away the invisible blood from her sin, “Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfume of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand,” (5.1.48-49). Lady Macbeth’s

The king’s murderer knows that no amount of water will be able to purify his soul and make the indication disappear, hence emphasizing his guilt. “No, this my hand will rather/ The multitudinous seas incarnadine,/ Making the vast one red.” Seas symbolize souls and peace, therefore because of what Macbeth did, he turns peace and balance into chaos and disorder, and destroys serene souls under his rule. With Macbeth surrendered to his wanton passions, he commences on a path full of sins and as a result, making him unfit to be a ruler of

The audience’s initial perception of Lady Macbeth is of a confident and evil women. In her first scene she is reading a letter from her husband telling her about the witches predictions. Upon reading the letter she instantly decides to

Shakespeare introduces Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in the beginning of the play as a couple who are unique, but functional. As Macbeth continues to debate murder, Lady Macbeth pushes him and spoils his innocence. In Act I, when Macbeth learns that he will become king, he heavily debates whether or not to take action on his prophecy, on the other hand, Lady Macbeth takes no time for consideration when she reads Macbeth’s letter about his news. Her desire and drive clashes with Macbeth’s calm and equivocating demeanor.When

Shakespeare masterfully portrays the erosion of Macbeth's moral fortitude, illustrating how guilt weakens his ability to withstand the challenges that confront him. In the end, Macbeth's resilience is ultimately shattered by the overwhelming burden of guilt. Despite his initial bravado and determination, he succumbs to the forces of fate and his own conscience, meeting his demise on the battlefield. Through Macbeth's tragic journey, Shakespeare offers a poignant meditation on the fragility of resilience in the face of guilt, reminding us of the profound consequences of our

Lady Macbeth is shown as being a very dominant, ambitious, and power driven person at the very beginning of the play when she is first introduced. When Lady Macbeth first appears in the play, she is learning of the witches prophesies from a letter sent to her by Macbeth. The witches prophesies reveals that Macbeth is destined to be King.When Lady Macbeth finds out that her husband, Macbeth was going to be King to the throne, she automatically sets her sights on obtaining that power. At this point in the Lady Macbeth plans for King Duncan to be killed in order for Macbeth to be on the throne, and for Lady Macbeth to obtain the power that she craves and desires so much. However, she does not believe that Macbeth is strong enough to do what she need him to do. So she

Lady Macbeth first appears in act 1 scene 5. She enters with a soliloquy; reading a letter that she has received from Macbeth. With the use of superlatives Macbeth refers to Lady Macbeth at the start of his letter as his ‘dearest partner of greatness.’ She reads the letter aloud and is astounded by what it has to say. The first thing she says after finishing the letter is that Macbeth has already sustained the titles of Thane of Glamis and Thane of Cawdor and shalt be what ‘thou art promis’d.

In the first two acts, the audience is presented with a deceitful woman. In Lady Macbeth’s first soliloquy she reads Macbeth’s note stating that he will soon be king, she instantly shows that she feels equivalent as Macbeth. She is overjoyed, supportive,