Lady Macbeth's Transformation

Lady Macbeth is the most interesting female character in Shakespeare of all time. She may not have many scenes in Macbeth but the ones she is in are very powerful and cause the audience to crave more. In the play Lady Macbeth’s personality transforms. At the beginning she gets a letter from Macbeth, which makes her go crazy with the power she imagines she will hold soon. Shortly after, she leads Macbeth to murder Duncan. Finally at the end of the play she is overwhelmed with guilt and loses her mind.
Lady Macbeth is an elegant lady whose biggest fear is her husband getting into trouble, that is until she gets a letter from her husband. She receives a letter from her husband explaining how she will be the queen soon as told to him by the three witches. Learning this new information, Lady Macbeth changes her whole mind and is ready to kill for what she wants: the crown. She decides she will do anything it takes to get Duncan off the throne. In fact, Lady Macbeth explains that she would kill her own children, if it came to it. She pushes Macbeth as much as she can. Lady Macbeth says “When you durst do it then you were a man, and to be more than what you
She feels guilt about murdering Duncan. Thinking about killing Duncan too much, she gets nightmares. She starts sleepwalking and goes crazy. While she is sleepwalking, she says “Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!” (Act 5 Scene 1, pg. 94). She is hallucinating Duncan’s blood on her hand. This shows that she can’t forget about it. This contrasts with when Macbeth had Duncan’s blood on his hands and said “This my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.” (Act 2 Scene 2, pg. 40). Lady Macbeth had said Macbeth’s fear was stupid, but now she feels the same. She can’t take the fear and guilt anymore so she just kills herself. That is the end of Lady