Question

As dark and crime soaked as today’s pop culture is, we rarely come across a character as "single-mindedly murderous" as Lady Macbeth. What does she do or say that shows she has no conscience? What, if anything, does she say or do to indicate that she does have a conscience?

Answer 1

Lady Macbeth has been portrayed as evil and two-faced throughout act II. Her immoral plan to murder Duncan depicts the way she originally had no sense or wrong or right. "Infirm of purpose...seem their guilt" (II, ii, 52-57) shows how threatening and hostile Lady Macbeth is. However, right when she was about to stab Duncan, she stops herself because she sees her father in Duncan. She says "had he not...I had done't" (II, ii, 12-13) which emphasizes later on that she has a conscience.

Step-by-step explanation:

In the given passage, Lady Macbeth showed different kinds of characters both good and disheartening. She tried to take someone else's life and she later decided not to because of what she saw in the person. She might act differently but she still has a conscience and she definitely can differentiate between right and wrong actions.