Macbeth and Lady Macbeth power and then suffering, but in the end good
unites and overcomes the forces of evil.
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth embrace evil and apply evil means to improve their
lives. Instead of being grateful and satisfied after hearing about her husband's new
position as thane of Cawdor, Lady Macbeth just sees Macbeth's ascent as merely a step
on the ladder. She quickly drafts a scheme to help her become Queen. Greed is a cause of
evil and a characteristic of evil which will inevitably lead Lady Macbeth to her own
detriment because greedy people are never content and thus never happy. "Come to my
woman's breasts and take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers, wherever in your
sightless substances you wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, and pall thee in the
dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife see not the wound it makes..."(pg.15) Lady
Macbeth the more ambitious of the two, calls on the forces of evil to help her commit evil
deeds without having to realize the full extent of what she does. All this was to keep her
from losing her composure and from abandoning her nerve-wrecking task. She plans on
hiding behind the cover of darkness, because light would elucidate the true gruesome
nature of her actions, of which she doesn't feel she has the stomach to bear. By
summoning the forces of evil to help her she is in a way selling her soul to the devil, she
has made an alliance with evil, which precipitates further evil actions. "When you durst
do it, then you were a man; and to be more than what you were, you would be so much
more the man." (pg.20) Lady Macbeth's most cunning attribute is her ability to
manipulate others into doing what she wants. She manipulates Macbeth by questioning
his manliness, or in other words she feeds on his weak spots. Her manipulation plays a
great role in Macbeth's murdering spr...