The influence of Lady Macbeth on her husband’s decision to murder the king is very important because if it wouldn’t have been for Lady Macbeth, Macbeth wouldn’t have killed Duncan.

When Lady Macbeth received Macbeth’s letter she decided to help her husband to gain the crown so that Macbeth would become the king. She is the one who decides to kill Duncan because she felt that Macbeth was too nice and noble to do such a thing. She examined his character very carefully and decided to urge her husband to murder the king. When the messenger told her that the king was going to stay at the castle she finally decided that that was where he was going to be murdered. She told her husband to appear normal even while he planned to kill him. She begged him to let her under take everything because as it says in the text, ” the king must be provided for“. Macbeth seemed overwhelmed by his wife’s directness and her advice to him to be devious.

When Duncan and Banquo arrived at the castle Lady Macbeth returned to her formality and leads them into the castle.

Macbeth was very scared about the murder because he knew that sooner or later he would repay what he had done. Lady Macbeth was practical and brave covering Macbeth’s failure to keep exactly to their plan, but putting things right herself. Macbeth felt guilty and suffered from insomnia. He said that if he had to recognise what he had done, it would have been better not to recognise himself, which shows how afraid he was. He was living in a nightmare.

When she heard knocking on the door she began to panic and told Macbeth to wash his hands and put on his nightgown so that they would not look suspicious to the watchers.

t what he was about to do (murder Duncan) carefully he decided not to do so. He told his wife, ” we will proceed no further in this business “. His wife became hysterical; she did not agree with Macbeth and chastised him with the valour of her tongue. She called him a coward and insulted him in any way she could think of. She told him if he did not carry out the murder she would not love him.

Lady Macbeth is completely in command of herself and subsequently of her husband. She has infected Macbeth with her evilness and it had been her influence that brought him to fulfil the prophecy of the witches. Due to Lady Macbeth’s

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