Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 41-56

Lady Macbeth: [Exit Messenger]

"The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements. Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood, Stop up th’access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Th’ effect and it. Come to my woman’s breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances you wait on nature’s mischief. Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry ‘Hold, hold!’"

[Enter Macbeth]

This passage is very powerful, and shows a lot of Lady Macbeth's ambition, as she is willing to do whatever it takes to get the throne, even if that includes murder. Macbeth is usually wavering on whether he should kill to seize the throne or not, but you see here that Lady Macbeth has the ambition to push Macbeth forward and kill Duncan and gain royalty. This connects to me personally because I am usually wavering on decisions, and I don't usually know how far I am willing to go to get what I want. Now I can see ambition, and how far Lady Macbeth is willing to go to get what she desires. I am not willing to kill, that's a crime, but I now see how far I can go.