Comparing the effect of conscience on Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Author:Cambridge university press Series Editor:Rex gibson

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are two interesting characters. In this play their conscience plays with them in different parts of the play. In the beginning of the play Macbeth is a man with a clear conscience until his thoughts are gradually corrupted by his wife.
When the king enters Macbeth's castle, the day the plan was going to take place Macbeth thinks about the reasons why he shouldn't go on with the plan, he says, "first, as I am his kinsman and his subject, strong both against the deed; then, as a host, who against his murderer shut his door, not bear the knife myself ".(Scene 7, Act…