My View on Lady Macbeth

• Originally, I found Lady Macbeth unrelenting in her ambition. I thought that she was an unpleasant person who used her manipulative ways to persuade Macbeth into murdering the king. She was cruel in her criticism towards her husband, calling him a coward.
• She also seemed to be a violent character, with her horrible description of how she would kill her baby. Despite this speech of how she would keep her word, she still refused to murder Duncan herself because he resembled her father. In my eyes, this makes her character quite hypocritical.
• She also shows no remorse for the part she played in the murder, as although she admits she is equally as guilty as Macbeth, she brushes it off, revealing that she feels it is easy to forget what they had done, and easy to ignore the guilt. Her cold attitude made me dislike her, as she was unsympathetic and nasty towards her husband. (Even though it is suggested they have a loving relationship by the way Macbeth writes to her).
• Lady Macbeth is a good actress, who uses her status as a woman to her advantage, to create the image of innocence at the scene of the murder. She swoons at the idea of murder. Although previously she had become the dominating, almost masculine, figure in the plot to kill the king.
• Despite her initial enthusiasm, when she sees Macbeth beginning to think of killing more, she appears to shrink back. She allows her husband to take more control than he had previously, almost as if she regrets planting the first seed of thought into her Macbeth's head. She even asks him what is to be done, whereas before she had been giving the instructions.