She reflects, " Yet I do fear your nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness - (act 1, Scene 5, lines 15-16) She works on Macbeth, to bring him around to seeing her evil way of thinking. "Look like the innocent flower,"" she advises him, "But be the serpent under it."" (Act 1, Scene 5, lines 72-73) Before he murders Duncan, Macbeth sees an apparition of a dagger, which is very much a sign of his guilt and sense of his own betrayal. Macbeth asks himself, "Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? I have thee not and yet I see thee still.""(Act 2, Scene 1, lines 40-42) He also pleads, "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?- (Act 2, Scene 2, lines 77-78) After Banquo has been killed by the murderers, Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost at the banquet. This is yet another sign of his remorse, however Lady Macbeth is able to cover up for him by stating, " Think of this, good peers, but as a thing of custom: tis no other.""(Act 3, Scene 4,118-119) Lady Macbeth is capable of influencing her husband on certain decisions and in a way tries to replace his guilt with greed. This is one of the causes of Macbeth's downfall.
The concept of the natural order being disturbed is a notion that interweaves through Macbeth. When Duncan is killed the natural order is disrupted and because of this strange occurrences begin to take place throughout Scotland. The night after Duncan is slain, Lennox says to Macbeth, " The night has been unruly Lamentings heard i' the air, strange screams of death -(Act 2, Scene 3, lines 58-60). The weather becomes unnatural and the animals also act strangely. Ross speaks about Duncan's horses; " broke their stalls, flung out, contending gainst obedience, as they would make war with mankind."" (Act 2, Scene 4, lines 19-21) Speaking about these abnormal happenings in Scotland, Macduff says, "Bleed, bleed poor country.
