How Lady Macbeth Changes Throughout The Play

Lady Macbeth is a person of many traits and changes drastically throughout the play. She is an innocent person until she receives a letter from her husband that states he has received three prophecies from three witches. Lady Macbeth becomes cold blooded and begins to plot against king Duncan. Once Duncan has been killed and the Macbeths have been named king and queen, Macbeth decides that they must kill Banquo because of the prophecies he received about being king. During Banquo's killing you see lady Macbeth starting to change. She is not enjoying kingship and says they accomplished nothing by killing Duncan. Lady Macbeth begins to regret everything and begins to hallucinate and sleepwalk. This all eventually leads to Lady Macbeth’s untimely suicide. Lady Macbeth is more blood-thirsty than her husband but soon starts to regret everything …show more content…
Out I say! One, two”. She keeps trying to wash her hands off because she thinks that Duncan’s blood is still on her hands and that she will never be able to get the spot off. Lady Macbeth has now gone crazy and is becoming how her husband was when he killed King Duncan, she is saying that she will never be able to get the blood off her hands, like her husband was saying that not even an ocean could remove all the blood from his hands. Lady Macbeth worsens and becomes a threat to her own life. Once Lady Macbeth is checked out by a doctor, it becomes clear that she is a danger to herself and is becoming more and more suicidal. Lady Macbeth starts hallucinating the killing of Duncan all over again, and begins to “push” her husband and hear knocking at the front gates. Eventually everything gets too much for Lady Macbeth and she cannot be fixed by a doctor. No one really takes the doctor seriously and believes she can be fixed. Soon enough Lady Macbeth decides she cannot take it anymore and kills herself. Lady Macbeth was a ruthless person or seemed to be but slowly declined which resulted in her