To other characters in the play Lady Macbeth is a kind, loyal wife. In the scene of Duncan and his men coming into Macbeths home, Lady Macbeth treats them with great hospitality.
‘All our service in every point twice done and then done double were poor and single business to contend against those honours deep and broad wherewith your majesty loads our house. For those of old and the late dignities heaped up to them, we rest your hermits.’ I:6:15-20
During the play there haven’t been any other characters suspicious of Lady Macbeth. This could have been due to the fact women in those days did not have much priority or main concern, or maybe it was the way she acted to others - so innocent and unsuspicious.
Lady Macbeth could be said to be a spiritual person. This is spiritualism is shown after she receives the message of the King coming to stay at her house. She calls upon the spirits to make her mentally stronger and that she could be given more masculine qualities.
‘Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood; stop up the access and passage to remorse, that no compunctious visitings of nature shake my purpose…’ I:5:38-45
Being a persuasive and persistent person, Lady Macbeth has no trouble in getting what she wants. Her techniques are clever and the best example of this is her persuading Macbeth to kill Duncan. She calls Macbeth a coward and attacks his love and manhood:
‘what be’ast was’t then that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man. And to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man’ I:7:47-51
It’s probable that Macbeth probably wouldn’t have done it without Lady Macbeths persuading.
Overall Lady Macbeth’s character is one that keeps the story moving, from her ruthlessness and determination she has the king murdered and turns Macbeth into a pitiless and unfeeling person. He gets hysterical and starts killing those he thinks is a threat to him. Macbeth is eventually killed by Macduff, whom Macbeth had tried to kill earlier and Lady Macbeth goes mad from all the guilt built upon her and commits suicide.
