Lady Macbeth Presence Of Mind Analysis

Sometimes people are not always what they seem like on the outside. They can be better than what they seem like or they can be worse. In Lady Macbeth’s case, they are worse. Is she thinking and doing what she is because she wants the best for her husband, or is she doing this because she wants more power? Lady Macbeth does some pretty extreme things to make her husband King. Some might say she went too far. Lady Macbeth’s characteristics, thoughts, and personality all have play a significant role in the outcome of Shakespeare’s play Macbeth. Lady Macbeth has many good characteristics, such as her ambition and resolution, her power, her presence of mind, her energy, and her affection (Kenneth). Ambition is a strong desire to do or achieve something (Dictionary.com). Ambition can be a good thing for Lady Macbeth especially when it comes to her determination to do things, if she uses it in the right ways. However, when she devises the plan to kill King Duncan, she is using her …show more content…
Lady Macbeth shows her presence of mind many times throughout the book. For example, when she is planning the murder, or when Macbeth doesn’t finish the murder, she remains calm and finishes what Macbeth started (Shakespeare). She loses her presence of mind only two times in the play. She loses it when she found out that, during her planning of King Duncan’s murder, he wants to come and stay with Lady Macbeth and Macbeth at their castle. She also loses her presence of mind another time when she is sleep walking after the murder. She is unable to sleep soundly at night, because even though during the day she act like nothing is wrong and that she is innocent, when she sleeps, her conscious got the best of her. When this happens she talks about how guilty she feels and she tries to wash the blood of King Duncan off her hands, even though her hands are already clean