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Text	Act 1, Scene 5 of Macbeth https://www.bl.uk/works/macbeth is set in Macbeth’s castle in Inverness. It forms part of the audience’s first encountering of Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth has just read Macbeth’s letter, which outlines the weird sisters https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/character-analysis-lady-macbeth ’ prophecies. She proceeds to express to herself her concern that Macbeth does not possess the steeliness or desire to use underhand means to acquire the glittering titles the witches https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/witches-in-macbeth have said lay before him. . It opens with a messenger interrupting Lady Macbeth’s meditations on the letter. The attendant informs Lady Macbeth of her husband and King Duncan’s impending arrival (‘The king comes here to-night’ (1.5.30)). The passage moves on to Lady Macbeth resuming her interrupted soliloquy, now in chillingly resolute mood as she readies herself for the imminent killing of Duncan. Then Macbeth arrives and she instructs him to leave the planning and execution of their bloody plan in her hands.

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Act 1, Scene 5 of Macbeth
https://www.bl.uk/works/macbeth
is set in Macbeth’s castle in Inverness. It forms part of the audience’s first encountering of Lady Macbeth.

Lady Macbeth has just read Macbeth’s letter, which outlines the

weird sisters
https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/character-analysis-lady-macbeth

’ prophecies. She proceeds to express to herself her concern that Macbeth does not possess the steeliness or desire to use underhand means to acquire the glittering titles the

witches
https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/witches-in-macbeth

have said lay before him.

. It opens with a messenger interrupting Lady Macbeth’s meditations on the letter. The attendant informs Lady Macbeth of her husband and King Duncan’s impending arrival (‘The king comes here to-night’ (1.5.30)). The passage moves on to Lady Macbeth resuming her interrupted soliloquy, now in chillingly resolute mood as she readies herself for the imminent killing of Duncan. Then Macbeth arrives and she instructs him to leave the planning and execution of their bloody plan in her hands.

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