Macbeth LRJ #3

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth both show significant changes in Act 3. The characters roles have almost changed places as Lady Macbeth's confidence in the whole scheme of things weakens. Macbeth who expected happiness as he took the thrown still seeks the sense of security that he was promised with the murder of Duncan. He then tries to convince Lady Macbeth that getting rid of Banqou would surely clear the greatest threat to their reign. "Naught's had, all's spent,Where our desire is got without content.'Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy."(3.2.6-9). This quote shows that Lady Macbeth is starting to doubt her and her husbands strength in caring on with this power.Macbeth's vulnerable mental state shows through, later in act 3, when Banquo's ghost haunts his thoughts. Lady Macbeth then frantically tries to cover up her husband embarrassing display of hallucination.

I chose to fallow the image of death through out act 3. This pattern appears in the form of ghost."Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake Thy gory locks at me." (3.6.54-55) This is when Macbeth finds Banquo's ghost at his spot at the table and talks to the spirit in front of all his guests. Macbeth's guilt for the murder of is former friend Banquo comes back from the dead to symbolize the prophecy working out as planned, and his inner conscious accusing him of sin.

Death being something that shows up as a way to represent someones strive for power and getting "rid" of anyone that stands in the way, through murder. This image pattern is commonly portrayed for obvious reasons since the play is a drama and death is a subject that fits this topic quite well. "Ay, and since too, murders have been performed Too terrible for the ear. The time has been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end. But now they rise again With twenty mortal murders on their crowns And push us from our stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is." (3.6.80-86) This is Macbeth saying how at one point someone could get away with murder and not have the body come back to get you.