How Does Lady Macbeth Change People's Life

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In the play Macbeth, the author, Shakespeare, presents the idea that significant events in people's lives can be life changing events. More specifically Lady Macbeth was impacted by not only hers, but also her husband’s decisions in her life. As a result of this, it cost her and her husband their lives. Significant events change people’s lives in drastic ways. Lady Macbeth goes through many troublesome events as the play progresses. A massive of these was before she and her husband, Macbeth, became rulers of Scotland. This is when she plotted to kill Duncan, who was currently king at the time, causing her and her husband to become the rulers of Scotland. “Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.”(Act I, Scene V, Lines 72-73) She was power hungry and was wishing she could have a gender change because she didn’t think her husband had the courage to kill Duncan. “The effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts, and …show more content…

With Macbeth killing his best friend Banquo, the number of murders get more twisted which she becomes sacred of what her husband has become. She then has to cover for her husband at his party because the guilt of the last murder committed had drastically affected him. She is trying to keep him under control. In order to save the night she sends everyone home and says that he has been like this since he was little. “Here had we now our country’s honor roof’d, were the grac’d person of our Banquo present;[enter the Ghost of Banquo and sits in Macbeth’s place]. Who may I challenge for unkindness than pity for mischance.”(Act III, Scene IV, Lines 49-53). Later on Lady Macbeth brings the night to an end by saying, “I pray you, speak not; he grows worse and worse; question enrages him: at once, good night: stand not upon your order of your going, but go at once.”(Act III, Scene IV, Lines

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