How Is Lady Macbeth Powerful

Lady Macbeth from the play Macbeth starts out as the one of the most powerful forces at work in the play. It is Lady Macbeth that pushes Macbeth to act on his ambitions at the beginning of the play, and it is also Lady Macbeth that formulates the plan to actually kill king Duncan. Yet as the play progresses onward Lady Macbeth begins to falter, and the strong, and powerful force she was in the start of the play just deteriorates into nothingness. Lady Macbeth is an enormously powerful character in the play she is without a doubt more powerful of a force then her husband even despite her deterioration throughout the play. Lady Macbeth is a driving force in the play due to her control over Macbeth and her love for him as well yet it is also Lady

With this line Lady Macbeth basically states that Duncan will die in her domain not that he could die or might Lady Macbeth says that Duncan will die within her domain. This implies that Lady Macbeth is as devoted as she is powerful because her she because swore to herself that king Duncan would die in her home, and she also did not claim that she would have to be the one to kill Duncan just that it would happen within her home which implies that she knew she could convince her husband to kill Duncan since the first moment of reading the letter he had sent her. This in combination reveals that Lady Macbeth has nearly complete control over her husband because she seems to have no second thoughts at all about being able to convince him to kill the king that he has severed for and that they are to be playing host to when he does murder him. Lady Macbeth also seems to be completely fearless in everything she does because even while plotting the murder of a king and convincing her husband that he must kill king Duncan Lady Macbeth still manages to play the role of hostess for the king that she is planning to have murdered. Lady Macbeth is the driving force for Macbeth in another way besides logical convincing. Macbeth is married to Lady Macbeth and in his letter refers to her as “my dearest partner of greatness”

During the feast Macbeth sees the ghost of Banquo his older friend that he had murdered and Lady Macbeth tries to get Macbeth to calm down and rejoin the lords at the feast but she fails and the Macbeth couple end up having to send the lords home. It is after this scene that Lady Macbeth’s downfall is most noticeable when she says: “Out, damned spot; out, I say one, two- / why, then ‘tis time to do’t. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, / fie, a soldier and afeared?” (5.1.33-35). Immediately this reveals that Lady Macbeth has gone g\crazy and that she is no longer in power over Macbeth. At first glance it seems that Lady Macbeth’s descent into this madness is due to the guilt from the crime however due to the lack of remorse at the beginning of the play unlike Macbeth himself and the emotional connection that Lady Macbeth did care for it seems illogical for her guilt of the crime to be the reason for this. Yet the crime does play a part in Lady Macbeth’s decent the real emotional connection that Lady Macbeth has shown at all was to Macbeth, and it was not until after Macbeth started seeing ghost and no longer listening to Lady Macbeth that she started feeling guilty and start losing her power. In the quote Lady Macbeth is referring to washing her hands and how