Macbeth Double Meaning

Lady Macbeth uses double meaning words such as ‘provided for- fed or killed’, ‘business- feasting or murder’, and ‘dispatch- carrying out the welcome or killing’ because she is testing Macbeth- how he will react to the possibility of murder. Lady Macbeth wouldn’t be unsure and scared of murdering because she is so ambitious of power that she persuades Macbeth to do this action of killing King Duncan. An example of Lady Macbeth is ambitious is that she said “Leave all the rest to me” meaning she will take care of the blood etc after Macbeth kills the King meaning she is not unsure of killing Duncan but this is a persuasive tone. In addition, although Macbeth isn’t straightforward like Lady Macbeth, he still has great ambitions of being king and strangely had too much attention to the witches’ sayings compared to Banquo. Also it says in the book that Macbeth’s heart was beating hard continuously which is saying that he has in his mind at least a bit of thought of killing Duncan before he passes the throne on to young Malcolm. So, since it doesn’t make sense that Lady Macbeth is scared and unsure of murdering Duncan and Macbeth isn’t ambitious, this double meanings show that Lady Macbeth was testing Macbeth what his opinion on this plan of murdering King Duncan is.