Lady Macbeth, who undoubtedly loves her husband Lord Macbeth is initially portrayed as a devoted wife who wants her husband to succeed and achieve greater things than what he currently has. However once Lady Macbeth learns of the event her husband had with the witches that promised a greater future for him to become the King of Scotland and the deed that was to be done, her ambition grew exponentially. Lady Macbeth is indeed very cunning and manipulative as she convinces her husband to murder King Duncan and fills him with her own ambition.
During the night of the deed, Lord Macbeth was stalling and had to be re-convinced by Lady Macbeth. “Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act and valour as thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem” (Act I, Scene VII). She pressured him by insulting his manhood and saying that he did not have the courage. One action that Lady Macbeth does not make is to carry out King Duncan’s cold-blooded murder herself even though she had the entire murder plot planned out. She instead provided the daggers for her husband and stain his hands red. Her reasoning was that King Duncan looked so much like her father. “Hark! I laid their daggers ready; he could not miss 'em. Had he
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When Lord Macbeth said that “We will proceed no further in this business: He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon” (Act I, Scene VII). Then and there Lady Macbeth’s conscious should have had that very tint of humanity by thinking of Kind Duncan as her own father and changing her mind from such evil