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Lady Macbeth's Transformation

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William Shakespeare’s masterful play The Tragedy Of Macbeth is a dark tale, set in what is now known as the UK. Although, most of the play is in Scotland, where the main event happens. Shakespeare tells of a noble Scotsman named Macbeth, who is haunted by a prophecy, told to him by three witches. The prophecy that he will be king along with other predictions from the witches, leads him to a bloody end. With not only his own blood but others’ on his hands. The person who convinces him to begin the murders in the first place is his wife, Lady Macbeth. She was a crucial character who displayed three of vital character traits that kept the play going.
Even in the first few scenes of the play, Lady Macbeth shows her true colors, Shakespeare shows she’s conniving. When she reads the news of the witches from Macbeth’s letter, she immediately starts planning the king’s death. “And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'ldst have, great Glamis, That which cries 'Thus thou must do, if thou have it;And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone.' Hie thee hither, That I may …show more content…

She becomes filled with guilt over the murder. The night haunts her so much that she hallucinates blood on her hands. “Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why, then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?--Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him...Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!”(V,i,39-56) Sadly her guilt kills her not much later in the play. However, it is an interesting change to see her in such a state after being so adamant on the king’s death in the first place. As well as this, her death prompts one of the most iconic lines of

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