The relationship betwen Macbeth and Lady Macbeth is of prime importance. Give sufficient analysis and examples of the nature of the relationship. (Complementary and conflicting elements, static and/or changing, depth of true understanding, degree of "evilness", etc.)

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Macbeth is a play about death, destruction, deceit, depravity and corruption. At the center of all this is Macbeth and Lady Macbeth (a quaint way of saying Macbeth's wife). As the play progresses, their relationship changes dramatically as a result of how each of them handles their emotions following King Duncan's murder.

In the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth is a strong, domineering person. She seems able to coerce Macbeth into doing things that he would not do on his own. She seems willing to trample anyone in order to get what she wants. She seems ready to kill. She would have no problem dancing on the backs of the bruised for the same reason stuck up rich people today don't care about the starving kids in Africa--she has never seen or experienced it. When readin

Different people deal with death in different ways. The relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth is a prime example of that. Macbeth basically thought, "Gosh, killing innocent people isn't half bad. I think I'll do it more often. Besides, I have to in order to cover my ass anyway." Whereas Lady Macbeth's thoughts were more along the lines of, "What have I done? I feel so terrible and evil. I'm going to go into seclusion because I'm not comfortable interacting with people anymore." Such marked differences in philosophy tend to tear relationships apart and are usually not a part of a healthy marriage.

When it came right down to it, Lady Macbeth couldn't kill Duncan. She says, "Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done't." Of course that is a bunch of BS; in reality she was just too fainthearted to get the job done. This was her first sign of weakness, though it certainly was not her last. As the play progressed her emotions got the best of her and she was slowly transformed into a pitiful, spineless, little jellyfish who kills herself because she can't take the heat. Near the end she goes insane and walks around saying odd things like, "Here's the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes

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