I just got done covering the play "Macbeth" in my AP Literature class. I always though Lady Macbeth was a strong character, so her committing suicide never really added up to me. This is my version of how she killed herself.

Macbeth, Lady Macbeth (c) Shakespeare

Lady Macbeth had overheard the doctor not too long ago. Soon, there would be no doubt how guilty she and her husband were. It was all because of her sleepwalking spells. If only she had the strength to sleep soundly. If only she could have kept her mouth shut while she was lost in her nightmares, her thoughts. She spilled everything. All she was doing was jeopardizing her husband s position as King.

She picked up a hot needle, already threaded, and held it to her lips. Soon, Lady Macbeth would no longer be able to secrete the bloody secrets that had been collected in their castle. She jabbed the point into her bottom lip, tears streaming down from the sharp pain. The heat would numb the feeling if it weren t for the air breathing through the fresh hole in her mouth. Lady Macbeth would jab herself again and again, creating a perfect pattern sewn onto her lips, sealing them shut like an old ragged doll.

Blood began to flow from her wounds, Lady Macbeth s only thoughts on keeping their secrets safe. They flowed back into her throat, her breath already cut short. It gathered into a crimson pool in her larynx, choking the Queen until she fell unconscious with the guards at the castle left with no reason for her death but apparent suicide.