Lady Macbeth

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and boost him up.She says:'Great Glamis!Worthy Cawdor.Greater than both by the all hail hereafter!' She tells Macbeth how to act around the king,to be evil but look innocent, 'Look like the innocent flower,but be the serpent under it'.
make's the plan and puts the ideas about how to kill the king into feeling good about how to kill the king into Macbeth's head.She treats him kindly to flatter him into feeling good about himself and build up his courage to kill Duncan.She is a very sly and mischievious person.She knows what she wants and she knows how to get it.She doesn't care who she hurts.

When Macbeth decides not to murder Duncan Lady Macbeth turns on him and uses every trick to pressure him into doing what she wants. Lady Macbeth's idea is that if Macbeth doesn't kill Duncan then it makes him no longer a man.She says he wants the king dead but doesn't want to kill him 'like the poor cat in the addage' who wanted the fish but was afraid to get his feet wet.Macbeth says he ...

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to her at the end of the play.She says:'A little water clears us of this deed' as if all they have to do is wash the evidence away,but as the end of the play she is still trying to get the blood off her hands.

In act 2 Scene 3 Lady Macbeth acts all innocent and it's like she wants to know everithing about what the men are talking about and saying about the murder.She follows her own advice to Macbeth in Act 1 Scene 5:'To beguile the time,look like the time'.She is acting the innocent victim to try to put the blame on someone else.

By Act 3 Scene 2 Lady Macbeth has changed because she doesn't want Macbeth to give them away.She sounds as if she is getting worried and she says they have ...

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