The play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare is about a tragic hero. It deals with the struggling desires of the mind and fear of other characters. In the play Lord and Lady Macbeth are faced with the opportunity of becoming King and Queen. Throughout the scenes the characters of Lord and Lady Macbeth can be compared and contrasted as they develop.
As the play begins, we learn that Macbeth is a great hero for slaying two Scottish traitors yet it’s shown that he is also too nice compared to his wife. After Macbeth is titled Thane of Cawdor like the three witches predicted, he worries how he will become King since he is far in line. Lady Macbeth is afraid that her husband is too kind and that he is ambitious but a chicken in doing what it takes for him to be crowned king which is murder. Macbeth brought the knives he killed Duncan with back to his wife because he could not look at what he had just done. She tells Macbeth how she would have, “ ..dash’d the brains out..” of a baby she was nursing if she, “so sworn as you have done to this.” And so, Lady finishes up the plans of the murder as Macbeth whines to her how now he will never sleep peacefully like Duncan does now. Lady even says “.. unsex me..” as to make her more masculine and powerful as she simply washes the misdeeds of the blood on her hands away. Although Macbeth is brave in killing traitors of his country, he is a coward when he has to murder his family to guarantee his royalty and his wife proves she is the more dominant of the two.
Macbeth feels indifferent about his next murder while Lady Macbeth is left in the dark. The apparition of the witches that Banquo will be, “ lesser but greater” than Macbeth pushed the new king to murder him to keep his throne safe. Macbeth hired two murderers to kill Banquo but he did this all without telling his wife. This is a drastic change for Macbeth because he wouldn’t have been able to perform Duncan’s murder without his wife finishing the deed. Macbeth...