Lady Macbeth is an integral character to Shakespeare's Macbeth, as she represents several different themes throughout the play, including the supernatural, femininity, and grief, from her receiving Macbeth's letter to her final scream of despair. Towards the start of the play, Lady Macbeth advises Macbeth on how to act in public before he murders Duncan in his own castle. She says, "look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't." The use of caesura creates a pause in the statement and makes Lady Macbeth's dialogue a lot more forceful. Also, her use of imperative words like "look" and "be" further fuels the idea of her forcefulness. Shakespeare uses this to show her dominance and control over Macbeth, which contrasts with the affectionate person she was presented as when speaking to him before. After Duncan's death, Lady Macbeth reinforces Macbeth's guilt when exclaiming: "Out damned spot! Out, I say!" when she sleepwalks. She refers to the "spot" (imaginary blood stain) as "damned," and desperately tries to wash it away with water. The repetition of the word "Out" shows her desperateness and the sheer extent of her guilt. Also, her guilt is emphasized by the panic in her exclamation. All of these techniques are used by Shakespeare to show Lady Macbeth's character arc, and how guilt can change a person from an evil cunning person, to a helpless, desperate person within their subconscious mind (represented by her sleepwalking). When convincing Macbeth to kill Duncan, Lady Macbeth makes some very harsh promises, including killing her own child as well as calling upon evil spirits. In the statement "unsex me here," Lady Macbeth is asking the evil spirits to remove her gender linking to the idea of femininity in order to complete the murder of Duncan. The idea that she says she wants it done "here" shows her willingness to do anything for the throne, including giving up her gender. Also, this links strongly to divinity, as people during that time believed gender is a gift and trait given by God that shouldn't be rejected, so this rejection pushes towards the idea that Lady Macbeth is a part of the evil supernatural. Shakespeare does all this to show how much Lady Macbeth had changed when hopes of monarchy were presented to her and she was prepared to do anything. In conclusion, Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as a person who would be willing to do anything to obtain power, even if that means tricking her beloved husband, even coating her hands in the scarlet red blood of a righteous monarch, calling upon evil spirits, or even removing her gender, and all of this ambition eventually leads to her downfall and death.