When he planned to kill Duncan, he first said he would. This can be seen again in her first lines when she talks about her desire to become queen. However, in the next scene she starts telling her husband to do it. In this scene Macbeth begins to have doubts about murdering Duncan, and Lady Macbeth tells him that he shouldn't and that she will go through with killing him. She tells him: “Was the hope/with whom you dressed drunk? Have you slept since then? / And now he wakes up to look so green and pale / For what he did so freely? From this moment / Such I consider your love. Are you afraid/ of being equal in your value/ as in desire?” (I, vii 36-41). The translation of this quote is "was the hope you told her false?" And now he looks like a coward because of this false hope. This is not the man she loves. He must act on what he wants. Later, however, he said: “I prepared their daggers;/ he could not miss them. If he hadn't looked like my father while he slept, I wouldn't have done it" (II,ii 11-13). The translation of this quote is that he prepared the knives in a highly visible place. If Duncan hadn't looked so much like his father while he slept, she would have killed him. This mirrors Lady Macbeth's guilt because she clearly knows that her crimes are wrong as she couldn't do it to her father, so she took him out on her husband. He had already planned and almost killed Duncan, but could not carry it out due to his guilt. If Lady Macbeth had carried out what she said she wanted to do, neither she nor Macbeth would have had the enormous guilt they faced after the crime was committed. Over and over, she called Macbeth a coward and insulted his masculinity while he was unable to do the things she was telling her husband to do. The theme is displayed in turn