Lady Macbeth's hunger and accomplishment for power is portrayed by selfishness and deceitfulness.
             Lady Macbeth was persistent in becoming Queen, so she did everything in her power to satisfy her selfish desires. She did what she could regardless of who she hurt and how bad the extent of the actions were. She strongly persuaded her humble and ambitious husband, Macbeth, into killing the King Duncan. She knows that destroying the King was the only way that Macbeth would become King and she would be pronounced Queen. She used her intelligence for evil and selfish purposes. She morally destroyed Macbeth by questioning his man hood and his love for her. Lady Macbeth made her husband feel shameful and afraid. After Duncan is killed by Macbeth, Lady Macbeth runs into some problems of her own. Her selfishness ate her up inside and she struggled with her guilt. Just when Lady Macbeth could not take it anymore she leads herself into committing suicide. She was not able to live with her conscience knowing that she created an evil human being inside Macbeth and know that she no longer can over power Macbeth's decisions.
             Lady Macbeth deceived her husband through lies to become Queen. She would question his authority and quest to become King. "Yet do I fear thy nature, It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness; To catch the nearest way" (Act I, Scene V, lines 17-19). Lady Macbeth is stating that Macbeth's kindness will never be able to steer him into the direction of becoming King. She believes his ambition will interfere with her desires of becoming Queen. Therefore, she has to lie to him and deceive him to gain the throne. She planned out the killing of Duncan and was relying on Macbeth to carry out the plan. Macbeth knows that what he will be doing is wrong but Lady Macbeth has this mind controller on him that no matter what he will follow her orders. Eventually, when Macbeth backs ou...