Therefore, according to Freud's theory, both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth had been overwhelmed by sense of guilt and remorse, due to Duncan's murder, even if, Macbeth, had only been the material perpetrator of that murder, while Lady Macbeth had become its moral executor. Macbeth is described by Shakespeare as a hero, a man of good moral principles, who believed in the honesty, loyalty and sincerity. So, for Macbeth loyalty and friendship have been important values, while, Lady Macbeth is described as a person who had moral principles diametrically opposed to those of her husband. With that in mind, we can understand how Macbeth felt when he was psychologically obliged by Lady Macbeth to murder king Duncan. Undoubtedly, Lady Macbeth guided her husband's actions, and in this way, she made him guilty of …show more content…
In fact, if we look at the beginning of the action, we are not able to find one weakness in Lady Macbeth, no sign of conflict, "Bring forth en-children only! For thy undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males. Will not it be received / When we have marked with blood those sleepy two / Of his own chamber, and used their very daggers, / That they have done't? ... Who dares receive it other, / As we shall make our griefs and clamour roar / Upon his death? ". (Macbeth....). Lady Macbeth's purpose was to overcome the scruples of her husband and keep the power, to which she was willing to sacrifice her own femininity: "...Come, ye spirits/ That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here/And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full/ of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood;/Stop up the access and passage to remorse,/That no compunctious visitings of nature./Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between/The effect and it. Come to my woman's breast/And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers..."(Macbeth Act I, Scene