MACBETH

THREEE WITCHES make prophecies:

All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee Thane of Glames!

All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee Thane of Cawdor!

All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, that shalt be king hereafter!

LADY MACBETH

Lady Macbeth is ambitious, strong-willed, determined (because she wants that her husband becomes king) and pitiless. She tells to Macbeth it is easy to commit the deed and he is a coward, she will consider the killing of Duncan as a love proof. After Duncan's killing Lady Macbeth becomes a sleep-walker and lunatic. She undergoes a mental breakdown. Now she is anguished and has hallucinations. She feels remorse for what she did. She doesn't seem so sure of herself like before.

"Make thick my blood" → She wants to become a bad woman so that she can kill the king.

"Take my mulk for gall" → She wants that her better part is take away and become a pitiless woman.

MACBETH

Macbeth is humane, hypocritical, ambitious, insecure (of killing Duncan) and undecided. His arguments for killing Duncan are based on moral values (ambition) and on opportunism. Macbeth is more worried than his wife by the possibility of being discovered and punished. After Duncan's killing, Macbeth hears voices and he says that "he will sleep no more", which means that there will be no more peace in his soul and mind. Macbeth fells guilty and afraid, he has hallucinations.