Macbeth

Macbeth is known as one of Shakespeare’s four great tragedies. This play is one of his best known and most widely recognized, as well as one of the shortest and most intense. In this play there are many famous and inspiring soliloquies (speeches of one’s thoughts). Lady Macbeth makes many of these. In Act I, Scene 5, Lady Macbeth receives a letter from Lord Macbeth and the scene opens with her reading it. After …showed first 75 words of 571 total…

…showed last 75 words of 571 total…that she does not want to feel any guilt, regret, or compassion towards the murder of Duncan and that she would gladly kill him herself. The irony is that after her husband kills Duncan and Lady Macbeth gets what she wants she is consumed by the guilt and loses her mind. This prayer made by Lady Macbeth is the first she makes and one of the most important in understanding whom Lady Macbeth really is.