Essay On Silence In Macbeth

The silence is taking up all of the conversation between them. The occasional drawer closing or shirt ruffling of Macbeth is all she can hear. Macbeth avoids all eye contact with his disapproving wife, as who sits on the bed watching him treat this day as if any other. After what seemed like years Macbeth finally speaks sternly " what is it...out with it." "How dare you ... he was your friend does that mean anything to you?" she finally blurted out. She could tell by the look on his face, it didn't mean anything to him as he kept getting dressed in all black. Another silence fell over the room until Macbeth began to explain how she needed to get her emotions under control before the funeral today. “ These outbursts of guilt and sadness can’t happen at the funeral.” She was furious and shocked by his words, as if her emotions were the

It is times like these when she regrets keeping Macbeth’s secret. Not only does she have to play the role of a happy wife and bottle up all the feelings that consume her on the inside, but now she can’t even escape them in her dreams. Macbeth wakes up to see her again in this state. “This is enough, you need to stop this!” he declared. Only to be met with the response of, “ you won I didn’t tell the secret, but you have no right to be angry at me for how I cope with it. This is on you.” Annoyed he rolls over and goes back to sleep, leaving Lady Macbeth to grieve alone. Even when she is surrounded by people she knows, she is alone. The depression is weakening, she can’t hold on much longer. Eventually she asks herself why she is still fighting, her inner war was finally over. News spread that Lady Macbeth has died. They had no idea it was a broken heart that killed her. When the news was brought to Macbeth it was too late; his value of human life has gone, and the shell of a man continues. He finds it a strength, but in the end it was his biggest weakness of