At the end of the scene, he is determined. He says, "I am settled and bend up / Each corporal agent to this terrible feat."
He knows he must put on an act for the King and thanes. He must act like "the serpent but be the flower under't." He says, "False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
He is convinced by Lady Macbeth's persuasive tactics in which she challenges his manhood. She calls him "green and pale," "afeard," and a "coward." Finally, the ultimate insult: she says he's like "the poor cat i' th' adage." In other words, a feminine creature who doesn't want to get her feet wet by dipping them into water to catch a fish. His manhood is reeling after this.
He responds, "Prithee, peace! I dare do all that may become a man; who dare do more is none." So, he's angry with his wife for using all the "wimp" rhetoric, and so he's resolved to murder.
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