Megan on Lady's Soliloquy

Lady Macbeth's Soliloquy (Megan Stillwell)

Lady Macbeth’s mind is going after reading the letter from her husband in act 1 scene 5. She thinks he is a coward of a man and she will have to put her female responsibilities aside and do his “dirty work”. This echoes throughout the play as she constantly puts her husband and his manhood down. In act V scene 1 everything begins to shift for Lady Macbeth though. She has officially gone mad as she sleepwalks and the doctor and gentlewoman observe. She believes there is blood on her hands and it will never wash off, which echoes back to act 1 scene 5 when she says she will have to do all her husbands dirty work. She also puts her husband down again like we have constantly observed throughout the play. She is reenacting the night they set out to kill Banquo, except she does not know she is and she also does not know she has an audience watching her. She puts on a fearless face and act, but she is obviously feeling some sort of guilt unlike the person we thought she was in her speech. It is also significant to point out that this all happens in act V scene 1 because her speech was previously in act 1 scene 5 which is just simply reversed numbers. 

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