Lady Macbeth hints to the idea of killing Duncan to Macbeth, but they decide to talk about it later. .
When Duncan goes to Macbeth's castle in Act I Scene vi, Lady Macbeth is very polite to him. She says how glad she is to have him there and how loyal she is to him, but little does he know that she wants him dead. At this time, Macbeth is conflicted about whether or not he should kill Duncan. He thinks Duncan is a good leader and has not done anything wrong. When Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth how he feels, her ambition gets the best of her. She is outraged and starts insulting him. "Was the hope drunk/ Wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?/ And wakes it now, to look so green and pale/ At what it did so freely?"(I, vii) She also questions his masculinity. She claims that it is the perfect time and place to kill Duncan. The most outrageous thing she says to try to convince him is that she would kill her own baby to be queen. "I have given suck, and know/ How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face,/ Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums,/And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you/ Have done to this."(I, vii) Macbeth then asks what would happen if they failed. She said that if he gets his courage up, and she gets the king's servants drunk, there is no way they could fail. "But screw your courage to the sticking-place,/ And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep-/ Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey/ Soundly invite him-his two chamberlains/ Will I with wine and wassail so convince,/ That memory, the warder of the brain,/ Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason/ A limbeck only."(I,vii) After a few more questions, Macbeth has made up his mind. Lady Macbeth's ambition to be queen led her to convince Macbeth to kill King Duncan. .
After Macbeth kills Duncan, he meets with Lady Macbeth.
