The Relationship Between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
             I am going to study the relationship of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth throughout the
             play, and how it changes as the play continues. I feel that the crucial time for the
             survival of their relationship was between Macbeth's first meeting with the witches
             and the murder of Duncan. After that point, the damage to their originally close
             partnership had, in my opinion, already been committed.
             At the beginning of the play, the majority of Act I, just after Macbeth's first
             meeting with the witches, they appear to have a very close relationship in which
             Macbeth regards Lady Macbeth as his equal. There seems to be a lot of love between
             them. This was all quite unusual for this period when marriages amongst the nobility
             were arranged for financial convenience, not love. Macbeth confided in Lady
             Macbeth about the witches' prophecy, trusting her to keep it secret, finishing his letter
             "Lay it to thy heart, and farewell" (Act One, Scene Five, line 13)
             and calling her his "dearest partner of greatness"
             Lady Macbeth clearly knows Macbeth very well, anticipating his thoughts, and
             commenting on his weaknesses. Lady Macbeth's opinions of her husband seem to
             differ greatly from those of Duncan, who regards Macbeth as "brave and heroic". She
             knows that Macbeth deeply wants to be king, but he is too full of natural compassion
             to use the quickest method available to him, which would be to kill Duncan. She
             knows he has the ambition but he lacks the evil that would go with it. However, she
             knows that Macbeth would happily accept what was given to him fairly. It seems
             clear from the way she spoke then and how she talked to Macbeth when he first
             returned that they have previously discussed the King's murder. Lady Macbeth was
             convinced that with her strength and what she called 'supernat...