Scene 4 - 7

In acts 4 – 7 we see talk of shadows and darkness. Lady Macbeth after receiving news from Macbeth about what the weird sisters have told him, she becomes filled with ambition. She wants nothing more to be king. She knows what such a step will take so she asks the spirits for strength and darkness that she may not see what it is that she does yet that she be able to carry out the deed. “Come, thick night, and pall the 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!’ She also asks for this because she knows that Macbeth has ambition but she fears that he does not have the ruthlessness to accompany his ambition, that will drive him to make the step to become king. Thus she feels that she needs to be there to push him forward thus she wants the strength to do it.