evil/ 'I:v(∂)l, -vil/ adj. & n.• adj. 1 morally bad; wicked. 2 harmful or tending to harm, esp. intentionally or characteristically. 3 disagreeable or unpleasant.

Looking at the dictionary definition of the word ‘evil’, I would say that, at first Lady Macbeth seems unnaturally unkind, though not exactly evil. However, contemplating murder obviously is not normal. We first meet Lady Macbeth at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 5. She is reading the letter she has just received from her husband, which says what the witches have predicted and that one of the prophecies has come true. She says Macbeth will get what he has been promised, but thinks he is “…too full o’ the milk of human kindness,” to do anything to bring it about. She knows she is more capable of playing foul to get

Be so much more the man.” (1:7:48-51)

Than by destruction swell in doubtful joy.” (3:2:4-7)

Throughout Act 5, Scene 1, Lady Macbeth completely changes the rhythm of her speech, going from speaking in iambic pentameter to almost childlike rhyming. She also begins to repeat herself a lot:

Her mind is taken back to an earlier time, she imagines herself to be talking to Macbeth. She asks who would have thought Duncan to “have had so much blood in him?” and goes back to rubbing her hands:

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