In the play, “Macbeth”, a certain theme comes into play: Guilt. This particular theme centers around the guilty conscience of Macbeth and his wife when they decided to kill the King of Scotland. Given the fact that Macbeth did indeed kill King Duncan himself, most people would pronounce him guilty. What they don’t realize is that Lady Macbeth came up with the plan to kill King Duncan, provoked her husband into committing murder by stripping him of his masculinity, and even showed indifference when the death of the king had already occurred. Because she conjured up the plan to kill King Duncan, provoked her husband into committing murder, and was even unfeeling after killing a beloved king, she is the one held responsible for the murder of the King of Scotland. Lady Macbeth starts to berate her husband in scene 7 of act 1 after he tells her about his hesitation concerning the murder of the King. Lady Macbeth says “When you durst do it, then you were a man; / And to be more than what you were, you would be so much more than man.” Instead of trying to deter her husband from committing murder, she instead provoked him to kill King Duncan by trying to strip him of his masculinity. …show more content…
Lady Macbeth says that she “Will I with wine and wassail so convince / That memory, the wander of the brain, / Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason / A limbeck only: When in swinish sleep / Their drenched natures lie as in a death, / What cannot you and I perform upon / The unguarded Duncan?” After Lady Macbeth poisons the guards at King Duncan’s door, Macbeth is to kill Duncan while the guards are unconscious. The plan afterwards is to feign ignorance and smear blood on the guards to make them look guilty. The simple fact that Lady Macbeth is able to plan a murder so easily is not only concerning, but it also shows how conniving she truly