Lady Macbeth

Scene 2 starts off with the first soliloquy of the scene in which Lady Macbeth is talking. She is waiting for the return of her husband and she is obviously very nervous as she says: "Hark! Peace!" which we later find out is caused by an owl sound that she hears. She is obviously very nervous as she is startled by this sound. This helps to contribute to the tension in the scene, as the audience does not know yet what her conscience is really like. When she hears a second sound, which is really Macbeth talking offstage (but she doesn't know that), she starts to wonder if Macbeth had the courage to actually commit the murder. When she says: "The attempt and not the deed confounds us",� it seems as though she has no confidence in Macbeth. This feeling of Lady Macbeth helps to build up the tension in the scene, for example whether Macbeth has been successful or not. Lady Macbeth is shown as being nervous again when she says: "Hark"�. This time, she does not know what has startled her. Stra...