'Do you think that Lady Macbeth is a good wife to an ambitious husband? You should refer in some detail to her words and actions.'

    Although initially it was the idea of Macbeth’s to kill King Duncan, it was Lady Macbeth that finally pushed him to do it. Macbeth was uncertain of the idea at first, but Lady Macbeth was quite the opposite. She couldn’t wait to get rid of King Duncan. Lady Macbeth knew the right points on Macbeth to target in order to push him forward. She was targeting his manhood, she knew he was proud to be a man and didn’t like to have that questioned, by anyone.
   
   ‘When you durst do it, then you are a man.
And to be more than that you were, you would
Be so much more the man.’

   Lady Macbeth is testing Macbeth as a man, using the one thing she knows will agitate him to do just that. She is trying to tell him that once he kills King Duncan, he will become a real man, even more than the man he is now.

   Lady Macbeth is much like that little voice in the back of Macbeth’s head, the voice that wont stop nagging him until it gets what it wants. In this case King Duncan dead.

   After Macbeth had committed the crime of killing his King, he had his friend Banquo killed also. Later he held a dinner with the lords. During this event Macbeth turns slightly crazy. Or at least seems it to his audience. Macbeth is talking to the ghost of Banquo, which only he can see. The lords at his table do not know what to make of this; they get a bit worried about the mental health of Macbeth, who by now is their King.

   But Lady Macbeth being loyal to her husband and King, does all that she can to try and persuade everyone at the table that Macbeth is not insane just having a momentary lapse of madness.

   ‘Sit worthy friends. My lord is often thus,
And hath been from his youth.
Pray you, keep seat.
The fit is momentary, upon a thought
He will again be well.
If much you note him you shall offend him and extend his passion.
Feed and regard him not.’

   Lady Macbeth is trying to re-assure Macbeth’s audience that everything will be ok, and Macbeth will be fine, if they only take no notice of what is happening and carry on eating. But then Lady Macbeth turns back onto Macbeth to try and test him as a man to sort him out.

   ‘[To Macbeth] Are you a man’

    She is trying to make Macbeth feel anxious and doubt his manhood himself, she does this as she knows that Macbeth does not like to be tested and he is very proud of the man that he has become. Macbeth sharply replies in order to prove himself as a man.
   

    ‘Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that
Which might appal the devil’

   Macbeth has responded here to Lady Macbeth just how she would like him too, as now he will be determined to go out and prove himself to his audience. Lady Macbeth has played an important role here, as she has helped Macbeth get back onto his feet.

   Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth that even a woman like herself could be more of a proper man he is at the moment. And without a doubt this gets Macbeth mad at the thought of it. This pushes Macbeth even more to try and prove himself as a man to his wife and everyone one else. And the way he see’s fit to do this is to kill more and more people.

   Throughout the play of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth proves to be very vicious and appears to have little heart for other than herself and Macbeth.

   Lady Macbeth has proved that she knows how to get Macbeth moving, she knows his sensitive areas, just like his manhood. Lady Macbeth is the kind of wife that a politician would dream about having. She does not appose when her husband wants to go out and kill someone, in fact she encourages him to do so. And when one of their cunning plans falls back on them she does all that she can to try and cover up the mistake and be loyal to her husband, whatever he is faced with.