It has been said that behind every good man there is a good woman supporting
him. In the play Macbeth, the tragic hero Macbeth, is encouraged, supported and
guided by his wife Lady Macbeth, but not out of love. Lady Macbeth is in fact a
very ambitious character in this play. Indeed she is the driving force behind
Macbeth and his evil doings. Lady Macbeth is in search of power and control. Her
relationship with Macbeth, her actions throughout the play and her personality all
clearly revealed her to be a woman motivated by ambition, not love.
Lady Macbeth's attitude portrays a very demanding character. Her
very sneaky and intelligent character is also a good combination for being very
manipulative, and her snake like personality that could get away with almost
anything she does, including, helping out with the murder of Duncan. Her
demanding character seemed to have Macbeth completely under her power. At the
beginning of the play, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth get along very well and nothing
seemed wrong. They do not hide anything from each other. The reader can clearly
see this from the letter that Macbeth writes to his wife in Act I, Scene 5. He tells
Lady Macbeth all that has happened to him. He tells her about the title he has
received, about the witches predictions and also all of his thoughts about what the
future holds. She knows that Macbeth is very ambitious; she also knows that
Macbeths' nature, "is too full o' th' milk of human kindness to catch the nearest
way" (Macbeth 1.5.15-16). She sees Macbeth as an ambitious person but does not
have enough courage to kill Duncan so that he may be crowned king. Upon
thinking of this, she tells him to hurry home so that she may, "pour her spirits in
his ear", in other words to cheer him on to the murder that he must go through
with (Macbeth 1.5.25). When a messenger arrives with the news that Dunc...