It begins with the letter Macbeth sends her. She reads it aloud and tells us that her husband is too nice (too full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way) to do what is necessary to make their dreams come true.
She continues by telling Macbeth to "look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under't"--put on a friendly face but think black thoughts and murder toward Duncan.
Later on, when she begins sleepwalking, she talks of how she still sees the spot of blood on her hands and that all the perfumes of Arabia can not sweeten her horrible hands. Her guilt and conscious are overwhelming her until she finally commits suicide.
She is never what I would call on a normal plane. She begins as an evil woman who cares about no one but herself and her own family (aside from the fact that she said she would dash the brains of her own child onto the ground had she known her husband was such a coward). She is greedy and very manly, pushing her husband to do what she wants. After he abandons her and they are no longer such a tight-knit "team," she unravels and ends her life as violently as she lived it.
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