5, Macbeth sends a letter to his wife, telling Lady Macbeth of his new title Thane of Cawdor, and his connections with the Weird sisters and their strange prophecies. She becomes obsessed with the news he sends her and immediately hatches a plan. As soon as she has finished the letter she decides she will make sure Macbeth becomes king. She says, “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be what thou promised.” She does not hesitate for a moment. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are now thinking the same thoughts. She also has to free herself from her conscience, and knows that she has to harden her self up. She needs evil power and evil is not naturally within her. “Come you evil spirits, that tend the mortal thought unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe, top full of dearest cruelty.” The letter also makes her believe that murdering Duncan is the only way of quickly achieving her goal. Macbeth brings further news that Duncan is actually coming to spend the night with them, it becomes clear to her that her role is to seize the moment and facilitate her husbands rise to kingship. She later shows her guilt when she begins to sleepwalk and go mad in Act 5, Scene 1.Lady Macbeth never saw the evil of her planned murder lasting out in this way. She even says, “A little water clears us of this deed.” This shows that she thought killing Duncan would be the end of the story. The blood of Duncan haunts her until she dies- “Out damned spot! Out I say!” she is constantly re-running her own part in the murder. Her words have come back to haunt her. At the opening of the play Macbeth was a brave general, who had just come out of battle. He had done his country proud and everyone admired him. An injured sergeant told the king “…For brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name,” when he was going into detail about he battle and how well Macbeth had served his country. He was loyal to...
