beth is introduced as a dominant, controlling, and heartless wife with an obsessive ambition to achieve kingship for her husband. Her unstable condition is only revealed at the end of the play. However, the audience begins to see hints of this hidden nature by the manner in which Macbeth addresses her. Contrary to her supposed ruthless nature, her husband regards her as a pure being and attempts to shield her from unfamiliar agencies by saying, "Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck," (III, i, 53). It is only in private that Lady Macbeth shows her weaknesses. As opposed to her seemingly violent persona, Lady Macbeth is horrified by blood, and during her sleepwalking soliloquy she refers to her hand as delicate in stature by uttering this: "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." (V, i, 24-25). Although Lady Macbeth is unstable and vulnerable, she uses dramatic analogies to persuade her openly fragile hu!
             sband to follow through with the first murder: "I have given suck, and know how tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. (I, vii, 62-67). Through her shocking and persuasive effect on Macbeth, he is resolved; and by hearing a woman who seems to be fearless of his anxieties,
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