Look at these lines from Lady Macbeth's second soliloquy
in act 1 scene 5 :
.....................................Come, you
spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me
here,
And feel me, from the crown to the toe,
top-full
Of direst cruelty; make thick my
blood,
Stop up the access and passage to
remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of
nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace
bwtween
The effect and
it!
Lady Macbeth here invokes
the forces of darkness and evil and seeks support from them so that she can appropriate
enough cruelty and remorselessness to act upon the plan of killing
Duncan.
Lady Macbeth's prayer to the same invisible forces
to turn her milk into gall and her prayer for a thick blanket of hellish darkness also
indicate that she suffers from fears of conscience. However, she makes herself fearfully
determined when she euphemistically refers to Duncan's arrival and stay at their castle
for the night :' He that's coming/Must be provided for'.
If your question relates to act 2 scene 2, the
opening soliloquy of Lady Macbeth divulges her failing strength, her fear and resistance
of conscience :
............................................................Hark!
Peace!
It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal
bellman,
Which gives the stern'st
good-night.
Lady Macbeth
resorted to drink to embolden herself. But she could not kill
Duncan:
.......................................Had he not
resembled
My father as he slept, I had done
't.
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