Tragic Transformation In Macbeth

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Register to read the introduction… In the fifth scene of act one, she is reading a letter from Macbeth that describes his encounter with the witches. After she reads the letter she becomes excited and wants to aid her husband in anyway she can. She fears that he won’t be able to complete the task without her help. “Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way.”(1.5.16) Lady Macbeth is willing to do anything to help her husband become king. She is willing to take control to ensure she will be queen. She has Macbeth’s ambition but she lack the morals and integrity her husband possessed. Her conscience cannot parallel that of her husbands. While her husband struggles to find the right course of action, she constantly provokes him to take the wrong course. “I have given suck, and know How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash’d the brains out, and I so sworn as you Have done to this. (1.7.54) …show more content…
Her constant provocation pushes him toward killing Duncan. Her persuasive word finally overcome Macbeth. He begins to hallucinate; it is here that he sees the fatal vision and hence kills Duncan. After the murder is committed Macbeth is overwhelmed with remorse. He is horrified at the act he has committed. Again, Macbeth proves that he is not a cold-blooded killer. His ethics interfere with his ability to function. He is so panic-stricken that he brings the knife he used to kill Duncan with him instead of leaving it in the room with the servants, as Lady Macbeth had

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