Lady Macbeths change in speech
•Throughout the play LM speaks in blank verse which denotes characters of high status.
•However in Act 5 she speaks in disjointed prose. Prose is normally associated with low status characters.
•Her regression from blank verse to disjointed prose shows that her guilt has infected and engulfed her mind so she had lost the status she once had
•Only Shakespeare character to die speaking in prose which dismisses her as insignificant