ered. Either way, Lady Macbeth was definitely ready for Duncan to die.Despite her eagerness earlier in the play, Lady Macbeth seems a bit afraid that she might get caught later in the play. When she sleepwalks and talks in her sleep, she demonstrates a fear that clearly represents the fact that she is scared of being caught. She talks of going to bed and washing her hands with the famous “Out, damned spot, out, I say!” (V. i. 37) phrase. When she yells about ridding herself of Duncan’s blood, she is presenting a metaphor: she does not truly want to be rid of Duncan’s blood itself, but rather the fear and guilt that his murder has forced upon her. The constant nightmares she has and the fear and guilt she must live will become too much; she commits suicide, proving once again that she is a tyrannical villain because she cannot deal with the repercussions of her actions.As a result of her actions and the actions of her husband, Lady Macbeth meets an untimely demise at the end of the play. Yet most of what happened was due to Lady Macbeth’s doings. If she had not pushed Lord Macbeth so hard to do something that he did not originally want to do, then Duncan would have lived and Lady Macbeth would not have gone through such anguish. She was too eager to kill; she seemed to be only interested in her own personal gain and possibly her husband’s gain, because she couldn’t 5have had one without the other. All in all, Lady Macbeth is the quintessential tyrannical villain who was bent on winning, but in the end she ultimately lost....
