Lady Macbeth imagines that she has the capability to be a remorseless and determined villain, but she isn't anything of the like in reality. She thinks that her will to follow through with her thoughts outweighs Macbeth's determination

Lady Macbeth imagines that she has ability to hide her true emotions, though her mind is as frail as an "egg" (IV-iii 83). She claims that she can act to "look like the innocent flower/But be the serpent under't" (I-v, 64-65). When Macbeth starts to hallucinate and go crazy at a dinner party, Lady Macbeth decides to try to make it seem as if it is nothing to be worried about. She uses a half-witted lie, calling this outburst "But as a thing of custom: 'tis no other" (III-iv, 96). The only contribution she has made throughout the book is to worsen their situation! Macbeth is now "customarily" psychotic, according to Lady Macbeth. The peoples' skepticism at this point is at its highest, and Lady Macbeth is to blame. Just before Lady Macbeth's death, she blurts out, in the company of two strangers, that "all the perfume/of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand" (V-i, 48-49). Even the bystander close by explained that she was speaking in ways which she would regret. In order to preserve the image competent to drive Macbeth, she sacrificed one of the most important things: her true emotions. I find it extremely paradoxical that she earlier thought that a few drops of water would clear her of such a 'deed' when she was in the actual act of the murder. The true feelings that had been festering inside of her head were rather ironically, the cause for her undoing.

. Lady Macbeth views her husband as "too full o' the milk of human kindness/To catch the nearest way," (I-v, 16-17). Within the first act, she deems herself the more committing and authoritative person in this couple. She claims that "that which rather [Macbeth] dost fear to do," could be fulfilled if, "I may pour my spirits in thine ear" (I-v, 23-25). She believes matters should be taken into her own hands from the moment she receives the letter about the witches' prophecies. Lady Macbeth believes that Macbeth doesn't have the "spirit" to "catch the nearest way" (I-v, 17). At this moment, she decides that quick action will be the basis of her reasoning and planning. Lady Macbeth intentionally tries to ignore consequence and concentrate on securing Macbeth's future as king of Scotland. She looks to the 'quickest way' as one that may lack rationality, but shortens their path to the throne. When Lady Macbeth heard Macbeth pondering the many reasons he shouldn't kill the current king of Scotland, she realized that she was now more committed to the crime than Macbeth was. She scolds him for even having such

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