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How does Lady Macbeth show control in act 2, scene 2 of Macbeth?

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Lady Macbeth maintains control of the situation (and her husband) in many ways in Act 2, Scene 2.  
First, she instructs Macbeth on how to think about the act he has just committed; when he claims, "This is a sorry sight," she replies, "A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight" (2.2.28, 2.2.29).  Further, when he expresses his anxiety about his inability to speak the word "Amen" immediately after he'd stabbed Duncan, she tells him to
Consider it not so deeply [....].  These deeds must not be thought After these ways; so, it will make us mad. (2.2. 41-46)  
She wants him to stop obsessing about the murder because she fears that such obsessive thinking will ultimately drive them insane. They need to move on.
Second, Lady Macbeth alone has the foresight and wherewithal to properly frame the chamberlains for Duncan's murder. When Macbeth returns to her, he seems to be in shock and still carries the daggers he used with him.  She asks,

Why did you bring these daggers from the place?They must lie there.  Go, carry them and smearThe sleepy grooms with blood.  (2.2.62-64)

She knows that the murder weapons must be found with the servants if others are to believe they committed the murder.  When Macbeth refuses to go back into the room with Duncan's body, Lady Macbeth places the daggers there herself. When she returns to Macbeth, she chastises him for his cowardice, further showing the control she exercises over her husband:

My hands are of your color, but I shameTo wear a heart so white [....].How easy it is, then!  Your constancyHath left you unattended.  (2.2.82-88)

While Macbeth laments the act, fears the eternal consequences of what he's done, and seems to cower before a corpse that cannot hurt him, Lady Macbeth manages the situation and her husband with apparent ease.  (Though we find out, later, that her conscience begins to eat away at her, too.)

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In act two, scene two, Lady Macbeth displays composure and maintains control over the tense situation by attempting to rationalize her husband's fears, calm him down, and finish executing the crime. When Macbeth initially leaves Duncan's chamber, he is visibly shaken and reveals his guilty conscience by saying, "This is a sorry sight" (2.2.20). Lady Macbeth corrects her husband by remarking that his comments stem from "foolish" thoughts.
Macbeth proceeds to say he heard one of the chamberlains remark "God bless us!" but laments that he could not reply by saying "Amen." Lady Macbeth continues to maintain composure and attempts to calm her husband's emotions by saying, "Consider it not so deeply" (2.2.30).
Macbeth then asks why he could not say "Amen," and Lady Macbeth tries to rationalize her husband's experience by encouraging him to forget about the crime and dismiss his active imagination. Despite Lady Macbeth's self-control and rational approach, Macbeth continues to grieve and elaborates on his auditory hallucinations. At this point in the scene, Lady Macbeth is fed up with her husband's behavior and tells him,

Why, worthy thane, You do unbend your noble strength to think So brainsickly of things. Go get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand. (2.2.44-47)

By instructing her husband to wash the blood from his hands, Lady Macbeth is offering him rational, pragmatic advice to conceal his role in the crime. When Macbeth refuses to return the daggers to Duncan's chamber, Lady Macbeth takes matters into her own hands by placing the weapons next to the chamberlains.
Her ability to execute the plan to perfection and willingness to conceal their crime highlights her composure and control under extreme pressure. Unlike her husband, Lady Macbeth remains focused on concealing their involvement by manipulating the murder scene. Macbeth and his wife then hear Macduff knocking at the door, and Lady Macbeth offers her husband instructions by saying,

Retire we to our chamber. A little water clears us of this deed. How easy is it, then! Your constancy Hath left you unattended...Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us And show us to be watchers. Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts. (2.2.67-71)

Lady Macbeth's comments regarding their crime and pragmatic instructions once again demonstrate her calmness under pressure and resolute nature. She understands the importance of making it seem as if they were sleeping during the crime and reiterates the importance of not allowing their thoughts to take possession of them.
Overall, Lady Macbeth demonstrates composure, self-control, and patience by encouraging Macbeth to calm down, following through with the crime, and taking careful precautions in order to get away with the assassination.

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The scene opens with a short soliloquy by Lady Macbeth before her husband arrives. Interestingly, she explains that she has taken a drink to bolster her courage:

That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold.

Further, the alcohol makes it possible for her to take control of the situation ("hath given me fire"):

What hath quenched them [Duncan's servants] hath given me fire.

Not only does she spike the servants' drinks, she admonishes Macbeth to stay calm after he returns from murdering Duncan. Macbeth is deeply upset, or as we might say today, "freaked out," by what he has done, almost raving as he realizes there is no going back to innocence after this night. Lady Macbeth tells him firmly not to think morbid thoughts. She also gives him the practical advice to wash the blood from his hands so that nobody sees him this way:

You do unbend your noble strength to think
So brainsickly of things. Go get some water,
And wash this filthy witness from your hand.

Because Macbeth won't go back to Duncan's room, Lady Macbeth brings the bloody daggers that Macbeth should have left behind back there, framing the servants. 
 
However, for all of Lady Macbeth's capability in handling the details of the murder, her frailty is foreshadowed when she admits she couldn't murder Duncan herself, saying he looked too much like her father. (That sounds like an excuse.) It's also ironic that while Lady Macbeth chides her husband for worrying about a little blood, she will be the one to sleepwalk and endlessly try to wash the blood from her hands—and eventually will be the one to crack and go mad, while Macbeth grows harder and harder.

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Lady Macbeth first tries to distract Macbeth from his guilt over his murder of the boys, and tells him not to think about it anymore since it is done and over with. Then, since Macbeth is almost incoherent she physically takes the bloody daggers from him to dispose of the murder weapons by planting them on the grooms, in order that they take the blame.
In addition, she gives the distraught Macbeth commands on how they will literally clean the blood off their hands so they do not appear guilty. In essence, she takes charge of the situation, gets rid of the evidence and is prepared appear innocent when the murdered boys are discovered.

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