Lady macbeth

• Persuades husband to commit murder

  Helps cover up his actions
• Guilt and isolation leads to her mental breakdown and death
• They way she calls on the spirits of evil seems to parallel the witches spells
• More ambitious and ruthless than her husband

  Plan in mind as soon as there is an opportunity to gain power
• For a while she is able to suppress her actions

  Eventually becomes unable to deal with guilt

  Unable to sleep

  Mentally unstable

  Dying in tragic circumstances
• Ambitious

  Even more determined than her husband

  When macbeth hesitates, she displays enough ambition for both of them

  Once a plan, nothing will stop her until ambition is fulfilled
• Cunning

  In outside world, seems like the ideal supportive wife

  Part of her ability to be deceptive

  When macbeth hesitates, she is there to urge macbeth on

  Welcomes Duncan into home so that he doesn't suspect a thing
• Conscience stricken

  No conscience at all to someone who is overwhelmed by feelings of guilt

  Can not bear to think what she has done

  Eventually dies alone

  Unmourned even by her husband

  When sleepwalking, remembers bad things shes done

  Tries to wash imaginary blood from her hands