Lady Macbeth Fair And Foul Is Fair Essay

“fair is foul and foul is fair.'' This means what's seen as good may be bad and what's seen as bad may be good. Lady Macbeth portrays this quote in the book. Even though Lady Macbeth is just a woman and is just Macbeth's wife she's seen as harmless or not able to do anything bad. But that's exactly how she became more powerful from the shadows, using her status as a woman to her advantage, because of how she's seen as innocent, but what's seen as (good may not always be good). But because of how shes seen as good it's easier to trust her more, especially her husband which ultimately led to a fate worse than her own for the society of scotland. But what's “fair is foul and what's foul is fair” in this story “Macbeth” is about Three witches

She uses her wisdom and knowledge of already knowing Macbeth, and from the letter he wrote to her about becoming king, as an advantage to further encourage Macbeth in the direction of more power. In act 1 scene 5 Lady Macbeth says,”Yet I do fear thy nature: it is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way. — that wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play fair and yet wouldst wrongly win — that i may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valor of my tongue.” Lady Macbeth is saying that Macbeth is too kind to take the throne “wrongly” (killing the king) and that he wants the title without doing the job. And she knows Macbeth would not be willing to go through with murdering the king at first, so she will have to use her words and charm to encourage him that it's not as bad as it seems. As Well as in the same act 1 scene 6 she also says to Macbeth “look like th’ innocent flower but be the serpent under’t. — To alter favor even is to fear leave all the rest to me.” In this quote Lady Macbeth is telling Macbeth this is how you should act and put on a mask of kindness around others. Telling him to deceive those around him into respecting and seeing him as good but to still have thoughts of murder and evilness within him. This not only shows how much dedication she has but what she would do as to using her own husband for her own

She is more fearful and now all the things she’s done finally caught up to her and now her mental health has to pay for the things and sins she committed against all others that led to their fatal end that eventually leads to her end to. In act 5 scene 1 Lady Macbeth says “—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.” After analyzing the play, when Lady Macbeth says those lines she is sleep walking and seems to be distressed because of all the things that happened. She thinks it's all because of her that many lives have been cut short. She thinks Macbeth is afraid of people finding out the truth but the one who is truly afraid is her. She's afraid she will be blamed and caught for her actions because she knows she is one of the reasons why most of the people are dead due to her encouraging Macbeth to kill all those in his way to become more powerful and eliminate those who threaten his power. Another quote that supports this is when Lady Macbeth says in act 5 scene 1 “Wash your hands. Put on your nightgown. Don’t look so pale. I tell you again, Banquo is buried. He cannot come out of his grave. —- The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now?—What, will these hands ne’er be clean? No more o’ that, my lord, no more o’ that. You mar all with