Studies in English Language and Literature

Yes, we must admit that Macbeth, in the psycho-analytical five-act tragedy Macbeth , was out and out a corrupt man stuffed with over ambition and desire to commit regicide. However, we cannot ignore the fact that Lady Macbeth was no less in being a heinous criminal. Some of the critics have compared her with Clytemnestra, Medea etc. Some of the thinkers call her to be the fourth witch. She was, later on, plagued with somnambulism or sleepwalking. Apart from that, she used to speak in her sleepwalk. That is to say, we may utter that she was plagued to be a somniloquist as well. She constantly used to wash off blood from her hands in sleep, although they were totally clean then. Actually, this gesture had a long root in her past activities. Her brutal, monstrous and murderous activities made her do so later on. She was no less ambitious than Macbeth himself. She has justly been called to be the fourth witch in the play. We come across Lady Macbeth's ailment in Act V,  Scene i of the

  A psycho-analytical five-act tragedy named Macbeth  by William Shakespeare evinces how in Act I, Scene iii, the three witch sisters hail and greet Macbeth. The first witch said, "All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!" The second witch then uttered, "All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!" Thereafter, the last or the final exclamation or hail came from the lips of the third witch: "All hail, Macbeth! that shalt be King hereafter." From these three prophecies, Macbeth could easily accept the first one, because the Thane of Glamis was no more. However, the Thane of Cawdor was still alive. Actually, Macbeth had over ambition deeply rooted and seeded in his mind. Unless and until we have something in our heart, that thing can never be raked up to the surface level. Macbeth, on one hand, feared the third prophecy, because he knew that it would be a foul play on his part to achieve that. On the other hand, he could not avoid the ambition