The Fall Of Macbeth And Lady Macbeths Relationship

The Rise and the Fall of Macbeth and Lady Macbeths relationship

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s relationship evolves from them being a closely bonded couple to becoming disastrous. The reason this became to be is they started to become secretive which caused them to severely drift apart.

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth start off as a closely bonded couple that loves each other dearly. Both characters are very loveable people at the beginning of the story. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are very close and are very open with each other. A good example of this would be when Macbeth sent Lady Macbeth a letter that expresses the love he has for Lady Macbeth, and he explains what all the witches told him.

“Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives

Lay it to thy heart, and farewell.”

Both characters reveal that they have much love for each other and that they are meant to be together. Unfortunately after Lady Macbeth hears about the witches prophecy it ends up wrapping around both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's heads which causes them to become distant which is seen and played out in future scenes.

As the story continues Macbeth and Lady Macbeth start to slowly drift apart. They begin to become secretive with each other which starts to break their relationship. This is seen specifically after the murder of Duncan. Lady Macbeth starts to control Macbeth more and influences his decisions way more than she did before. Throughout this scene it is easy to tell that Lady Macbeth currently had more control in the relationship and had more power over Macbeth himself.

“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. Nor time nor place

Did then adhere, and yet you would make

She starts sleepwalking which then leads to her having conversations and reenacting the murder of Duncan. The reason this is happening is because she is starting to feel the guilt that her husband is not. Unfortunately she had no one to lean back on because Macbeth at this point is out of the picture. He was off killing people and was not stopping, this left Lady Macbeth alone to worry about her dear husband. Since both characters went crazy their relationship started to deteriorate to the point where Lady Macbeth unfortunately died. In the outburst of everything that had happened it barely even phased Macbeth to the point where he was not even