Lady Macbeth's Moral Conscience

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This quote holds true to Macbeth, who stayed quiet in the beginning of the play. He started out as a string, heroic soldier who is willing to defend his country for the better. Then, after hearing the witches tell him what his future holds, he tells his wife. She takes control of their relationship and tells Macbeth that they need to plan the death of Duncan. Macbeth knows that killing Duncan, the king, to gain power was immoral. Despite Macbeth’s moral conscience, his wife persuaded him by challenging his masculinity, which weakens and allows Macbeth’s moral conscience to be engulfed by evil. During this conversation, Macbeth should have told his wife to let things go, without trying to control or fasten the outcome. If Lady Macbeth did not

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