The Rise And Fall Of Lady Macbeth

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referring to her role as a woman, both physically and emotionally in
negative ways. In the above quote, Lady Macbeth is commenting on her husband's
lack of gall, stating, that quite frankly, she would make a better man than
he.
Although still a very strong woman, we see the first signs of weakness
in Lady's Macbeth's character in Act II, Scene ii, 12-13. She says, “Had he
not resembled/ My father as he slept, I had done it.” She is giving an excuse
for not killing Duncan herself. As you can plainly see, this is not the same
Lady Macbeth that would bash a baby's brains in in the beginning of the play.
Throughout the play, Macbeth's character grows stronger as Lady Macbeth's will
regresses. It even gets to where Macbeth will not include his wife in his
villianous schemes, where at one time, it was Lady Macbeth who was
implementing these schemes in his head in the first place. In a sense, the two
characters switch roles; Lady Macbeth taking a backseat to her ...

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