“A little water clears us of this deed”

• Lady Macbeth’s omnipotent ambitions blind her to the profound mental turmoil Macbeth is experiencing
• Her callousness becomes apparent as she employs litotes to trivialise the act of murder and emasculate Macbeth , encouraging him along his murderous path.
• The euphemism characterises regicide as a mere “deed” highlighting the paradoxical aspect of her character.
• Despite her ambitions to shed feminine traits and embrace tyrannical brutality, she struggles to articulate the gravity of her heinous act.
• Foreshadows her descent into a melodramatic state of insanity in act 5, where she grapples with an inability to fully grasp the enormity of the sins she committed.