macbeth+project+2

breanna, evan, rachel notes: - tries to act evil throughout play to keep reign on macbeth - feels guilty towards end - didn't want to kill duncan because he resembled her father __thesis:__ Lady Macbeth covers up her feelings by acting evil towards others, but really she feels guilty about past actions.

Act 1 Scene 7 keeping control over macbeth "  What beast was ’t, then, That made you break this enterprise to me?When you durst do it, then you were a man;And to be more than what you were, you wouldBe so much more the man. Nor time nor placeDid then adhere, and yet you would make both.They have made themselves, and that their fitness nowDoes unmake you. I have given suck, and knowHow tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me.I would, while it was smiling in my face,Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gumsAnd dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this."

Act 2 Scene 2 washing of the hands " My hands are of you color, but I shame to wear a heart so white. i hear a knocking at the south entry. Retire we to outt chamber. A little water clears us of the deed."

Act 2 Scene resembles father I laid there daggers ready; he could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled my father as he slept, i had done't.

Act 5 scene 1 Lady macbeth sleepwalks "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 Sleepwalking part 2 "Out, damned spot! Out, I say!—One, two. Why, then, ’tis time to do ’t. Hell is murky!—Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knowsit, when none can call our power to account?—Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him."

Conclusion: Lady Macbeth disguises herself to be evil even though she really does feel guilty deep down inside. She uncovers her disguise of being guilty by sleeping walking, washing her hands, screaming, writing down her thoughts on a piece of paper which was almost like a confession on what her and Macbeth have done.