Lady Macbeth is portrayed as very powerful and ambitious. She is characterized by Shakespeare to be manipulative, cunning, deceitful and cold hearted. During Shakespearian times women were stereotypically meant to sit pretty and be benevolent and were only useful for ‘providing children’. So in contrast, Shakespeare created the character of lady Macbeth, to not only break all these stereotypical characteristics, but emerge as an extreme to the general expectation of the time. She is made to be the catalyst in order to help Macbeth in gaining power, that she desires more than Macbeth himself, but she knows that this is also hugely beneficial to her, as it fulfils her ambition and desire to become queen. Even though Macbeth is portrayed to be the most cunning …show more content…
She decides to go there herself ‘infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers.’ She tries to remind him that the most important thing in the moment is to frame the guards. He refuses to go back as he cannot bare to see what he has done, and this is where like before lady Macbeth has to be the more masculine figure to make him worry that a woman is doing ‘his job’ for him, and this is where she again manipulates and mocks Macbeth on his manliness. When lady Macbeth mocks and taunts Macbeth, her words aggravate him as he is seen to be very brave and masculine and he cannot lose these titles. ‘hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white’. Here she mocks him by saying that she is as guilty as he is but she would be ashamed to be showing as much weakness as he is again here she mocks his kindness and his manliness by saying that he is mentally ‘weak’. In the middle of the play Macbeth seems to be making decisions without Lady Macbeths knowledge and this is where we begin to see that Lady Macbeth is losing her control over Macbeth and the situation, opposite to how confident and overpowering she was during the first few