How Has Lady Macbeth Changed Essay

“There shall be done a deed of dreadful note”, “What’s to be done?” “Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck” (Macbeth Act III). This Quotation from the Shakespeare play “Macbeth” perfectly represents and shows how Macbeth has taken leadership of their relationship, he even seems to be making big decisions on his own though this wasn’t always the case. From Lady Macbeth prodding Macbeth with the idea that he was lacking manliness. She saves Macbeth from his social mistakes, and the slow transfer of power between the two it can be seen that both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have changed significantly. The first views we see their two personalities is when Lady Macbeth is coaxing her husband to kill King Duncan. This is shown through

An instance when this is shown is right after Duncan’s death becomes known and Macbeth has to show his remorse to justify him killing the guards. He is a little too dramatic in his wording, “His silver skin laced with golden blood; and his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature”. He is drawing attention like a child throwing a temper tantrum in public, suspicion is arising and Lady Macbeth notices so she faints to distract the men. Another instance later during King Macbeth’s party everyone is to sit down and enjoy the feast but the king is hallucinating the recently murdered Banquo there, “Never shake thy gory locks at me!” He has begun to make a scene and as per usual Lady Macbeth attempts to save his image in in the eyes of the public making excuses that he has phases like this and that it’s best to just ignore

Macbeth confidence grows and it is becoming easier and easier to kill. Banquo through the manipulation of the Three Witches is seen as a threat so Macbeth decides the only option he has is the hire murderers to do his dirty work. At the start of the play Macbeth would have been discussing this with his wife but now the roles have almost switched for he tells her to “Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck”. He has become a general and tells his wife what to do…”Let your remembrance apply to Banquo”. During this conversation he restates a quote she told him at the start of the play, “Make our faces vizards to our hearts” this quote played a big part because it really emphasized how different things have