Analysis Of Lady Macbeth The Third Murderer

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The Third Murderer In Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, the third murderers identity is unknown and it is never revealed at the end of the play. But there are some clues throughout the story that suggests Lady Macbeth could be the unknown third murderer. Lady Macbeth could be the third murderer in Macbeth because she shows signs of wanting to be like a man, she is the one that influenced Macbeth to kill Duncan, and because she shows signs of extreme guilt later in the story. With these three pieces of evidence, Lady Macbeth is shown to be the third murderer in Macbeth. The first piece of evidence that proves Lady Macbeth is the third murderer is that she showed signs of her wanting to be more masculine. Men were more related to being …show more content…

When she is seen sleep walking she says, “What will these hands ne’er be clean? […} Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so pale: I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried; he cannot come out on’s grave” (70). This quote shows that her hands are not clean which means that she has blood on her hands. This could mean that she just feels guilty for persuading Macbeth to kill Duncan. But she does end up killing herself later on in the book because of this guilt, which leads me to make the assumption that her guilt was from the murders that she committed when she was the third murderer. She does also make the motion of washing her hands but her hands cannot be cleaned which shows that she has more guilt. This evidence shows that she is the third murderer because it is unlikely that the guilt of convincing Macbeth to kill is enough to make her kill herself. Which is why I believe that she was third murderer because that would have given her even more guilt which would ultimately lead to her killing herself. Lady Macbeth is a strong character in this play and with these pieces of evidence she is shown to be an even stronger character. She is the third murderer because she wants to cruel like a man, she convinced Macbeth to kill Duncan, and she shows signs of extreme guilt which ultimately leads to her death. This makes Lady Macbeth a stronger character and shows why she committed

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