She continues to ask for her blood to be thickened so all compassion can be removed, suggesting that she does not want any pity to reach her heart, in order for her to carry other terrible plan. The use of repetition of the phrase:, ‘come’: ‘Come, you spirits…Come to my woman’s breasts…Come, thick night,’ demonstrates the urgency of the repeated commands and allows the audience to feel her desperation but also witness a woman who does not present herself as a Jacobean woman, but rather one who adopts masculine qualities of power and strength. This shocks her audience. She has supressed her feminine qualities and the audience see her as a sinister character who wants to exercise her power as a man would. The audience would have been uncomfortable with her character as women in those days were supposed to be submissive to their husbands.

Instantly, Lady Macbeth has dreamt of becoming the Queen and thus has realised the need to kill. This evil nature has been cleverly created by Shakespeare through the technique of assonance whereby Lady Macbeth is presented with serpentine qualities through the use of the constant hissing of the ‘s’ sound: ‘Stop up th’access and passage to remorse.’

This evil nature is presented to the audience and Lady Macbeth is portrayed as a frightening and powerful woman, whose thoughts of murder are perhaps even more ambitious than that of Macbeth. It is clear that Lady Macbeth feels that Macbeth might be hesitant over killing King Duncan. ‘Yet I do fear thy nature…It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness.’ Here Shakespeare successfully conveys that idea that Lady Macbeth is perhaps more determined to kill than her husband and that his nature might stand in the way. Shakespeare has foreshadowed the persuasive techniques that Lady Macbeth will subsequently use on Macbeth towards the end of the scene, putting her in a