Macbeth Passage Analysis: Lady Macbeth According to the FBI, a violent crime happens every 25.3 seconds. With so many crimes happening every few seconds, what drives those people to transgress such an act. But also, how does it affect the people who commit the crime or play apart in it. Lady Macbeth was deeply affected in act 1, scene 5 of the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. She was ready to commit any act if it allowed her husband to be king. As well as after playing a part in the murder of many, and planting the murder weapon of one homicide in the arms of innocent men, Lady Macbeth had changed greatly. By committing these crimes, it sealed her fate. This caused her to become paranoid and suicidal. Macbeth follows a war hero in Scotland,
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However, through all the acts of murder she was apart of or aware of, it sparked an apprehension within her, and caused her to commit suicide. Knowing of the death of all the characters Macbeth killed, Lady Macbeth seems out of character. She was no longer tenacious, and became so paranoid, shown from her many occasions of sleepwalking. Through this her character changes yet again. With so many fowl acts, it has left a heavy burden on her conscious that is causing her to become parinoid that she reveals many of the Macbeth’s secrets. She says while sleepwalking, “Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why, then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?--Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him” saying this unknowing that a doctor and gentlewoman are watching (Shakespeare 5.1.39-44). She has let her guard down and allowed for her to become overwhelmed with despair, knowing of all the blood she and Macbeth have on their hands, but carrying the murder of Duncan the most. This is because that first murder, King Duncan, was her defining moment, turning her into an accessory and planting evidence of that murder. This was again a character change, showing from the most definitive altering event of the first murder, to now a paranoid woman from the buildup of
However, through all the acts of murder she was apart of or aware of, it sparked an apprehension within her, and caused her to commit suicide. Knowing of the death of all the characters Macbeth killed, Lady Macbeth seems out of character. She was no longer tenacious, and became so paranoid, shown from her many occasions of sleepwalking. Through this her character changes yet again. With so many fowl acts, it has left a heavy burden on her conscious that is causing her to become parinoid that she reveals many of the Macbeth’s secrets. She says while sleepwalking, “Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why, then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?--Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him” saying this unknowing that a doctor and gentlewoman are watching (Shakespeare 5.1.39-44). She has let her guard down and allowed for her to become overwhelmed with despair, knowing of all the blood she and Macbeth have on their hands, but carrying the murder of Duncan the most. This is because that first murder, King Duncan, was her defining moment, turning her into an accessory and planting evidence of that murder. This was again a character change, showing from the most definitive altering event of the first murder, to now a paranoid woman from the buildup of