Lady Macbeth's character in the play has drastically changed since the beginning acts of the play. Before Lady Macbeth's character was strong willed and driving whereas now she is weak with guilt and descending into madness. She has begun to act more strangely and is no longer in control. One new behavior we are shown is that Lady Macbeth now sleep walks and talks. While sleep talking she says, "Out damned spot, out, I say". In this Lady Macbeth expresses her need and wishes to cleanse herself of her involvement in Duncan's murder. She is visualizing red blood staining her hands. Shakespeare uses this vision of blood staining the hands of the murderers twice, once with Macbeth and again with Lady Macbeth. The color red is a recurring symbol of guilt and gruesome deeds. When, before, Macbeth was complaining that he was so guilty for committing Duncan's murder that he could not stop seeing his hands as blood soaked Lady Macbeth reassured him that, "A little water clears us of this deed". This remedy certainly did not work even for herself.
             The way Lady speaks has also changed. Her words have come to resemble those of the three witches who's prediction catapulted the whole plot of the play. "The Thane of Fife had a wife", is an example of Lady Macbeth's new found ability to rhyme as the Witches do. Shakespeare reminds us of the witches in the way she speaks to cement the idea that Lady Macbeth is going mad. The rhyme is a literary technique also gaining emphasis and creating more importance in the words spoken. In her sleepy mutters she says simply, "One. Two. Why then 'tis time to do't." She is remembering the hours leading up to the kings murder. She then says, "Hell is murky" suggesting that she considers her life a living hell of her own creation. This quote may also foreshadow her unfortunate end.
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