Macbeth: Letter From Lady Macbeth To Macbeth :: Macbeth essays

Macbeth Letter From Lady Macbeth To Macbeth  De arest husband,         These last few months have been woeful ones. The actions you and I haveundertaken have played on my conscience, and I am finding it hard to cope. Irealise that the path we had chosen was the malign one, and even though Iaccepted that from the beginning, the consequences of that choice and the mental offend that I am experiencing now were unimaginable at the time.         I was felicitous when I received your letter telling me of your promotionto Thane of Cawdor. I am sure it was a step that pleased you in like manner. But Im afraidthat my emulation to act on the witches prophecies was to be our downfall. Theprospect of you being king was so great that I lost touch with reason. When theidea of murdering the king was put up forth I know you were hesitant on acting, andI incisively had to have my ambition fulfilled. So I pushed you and n ow I realise thatmy persistence was not in our best interests, and Im sorry for it. perhaps if Ihad left the decision to your judgement we would have been better off.         What I did I only did for you. For you to be king, how could I for seethat we would be worse off. Just the idea that you would be king would cheer meever, but I knew I had to push you to fulfill your potential.         But doubt crept into my melodic theme on the fateful night of Duncans murder. Iwould have done it myself if he had not looked like my father. He was resting sopeacefully in the innocence of sleep, I just couldnt bring myself to do it. Soyou had to. Who could have imagined the archaic man would have had so much descent inhim. This blood has stained me forever and I am afraid it has done the selfsame(prenominal) toyou. Nothing can remove this blood. Many nights I would wake in cold sweat andmy hand would be red from my rubbing. The blood just wont leave me, it haunts menight and day.         But the murder of the Macduff family was just too much. Sometimes I canhear the cries of the women and young children as they are being killed, and itis the knowledge that my decisions led to their deaths that I find mostdistressing. It is humourous that the actions leading to my demise have also led to