wn hands, and had some evil in him, because he was able to perform acts of carnage and have the ability to lose his conscience and sense of guilt.Some people call Lady Macbeth the fourth Witch, but if you look more deeply into it, Lady Macbeth fades out of the action very quickly. She may have been the one to pressure Macbeth to kill Duncan and use her devious taunts to make him do it, but it does not take him long to submit to them. “I am settled, and bend each coporal agent to this terrible feat.” He was his own man. The decision of good will and evil was his choice. Also the morning after the murders she faints. This could be interpreted in two different ways, her line “Help me, hence, ho” could be said in a theatrical way to distract attention, or she is suddenly feeling scared and alone because of Macbeth's words and actions. They had planned everything together, but things begin to get out of control with the murder of the two guards. Macbeth may have been directing some of his angry words at her. His fury and menace would be frightening, especially as earlier in the play she thinks he would be too mild to kill the king in the first place, as she says so in Act 1 Scene 5 “…Yet I do fear thy nature. It is full o’th’ milk of human kindness, to catch the nearest way.” She is also likely to be shocked by the guards murders, she was not prepared for their deaths, she did think that Duncan was the end of everything. At the banquet she begins to become isolated from her husband. Her persuasion no longer works on him. She scolds him in the same way as before the murder, but now it is different. She doesn’t know what is really wrong, she can’t see the ghost. The sense of losing touch is continued, when he puts all his faith into the supernatural. “You lack the seasons of all natures, sleep”. As a women she never actually had any power of her own, “She has l...
