What are your impressions of Lady Macbeth and her developing relationship with her husband? Confine your analysis to her first two scenes in the play.

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What are your impressions of Lady Macbeth and her developing relationship with her husband? Confine your analysis to her first two scenes in the play.

In the play Macbeth, which was first performed to a Jacobean audience in 1606, Lady Macbeth gives the impression that she was the leading dominate character in the relationship between her and Macbeth because she comes across as a very manipulative, ambitious and vicious woman. This seemed very wrong to people who lived in the Jacobean times. As the play goes on you start to see that Lady Macbeth isn't as strong as she comes across but seems to have many weaknesses such as her being scared and she may be under the influence of supernatural powers.

Lady Macbeth desperately wants to be the queen and so she is trying to convince Macbeth to kill King Duncan and so they can rule Scotland together but Lady Macbeth tries to overrule Macbeth with all her scheming ways.

Lady Macbeth first appears in the play in Act 1 scene 5; when she enters she is alone with a letter from Macbeth. In the letter that he writes to Lady Macbeth it