The first time the reader is exposed to sleep imagery towards Lady Macbeth is a big moment in the play. When she and her husband are going to kill the king. “O, never Shall sun that morrow see!” She plans for Macbeth to go to Duncan the king while he is drunk and asleep and murder him. “When is swinish sleep their drenched natures lie as in a death” This is initially where we are introduced to the Lady’s evil and heartless ways. Lady Macbeth is ruthless going after her king while he is vulnerable and unable to defend himself while also destroying her husband as he obviously struggles with disloyalty. Shakespeare shows the reader right away that initially Lady Macbeth has no remorse and no hesitation. Whenever she talks to Macbeth it seems to
