Lady Macbeth is a pivotal and key character in the play Macbeth and is responsible for much of the plays huge success. She is not only the drive for murder but brings out many themes and challenges the role of women during Shakespearean time. She is stronger, more ruthless, and more ambitious than her husband and gains power in her relationship through her womanly skills of manipulation.

She uses her skill of manipulation to talk her husband into murdering king Duncan. Interestingly enough, she does not use any of her sex appeal but rather her intellect to do so. She does this by questioning Macbeth's manhood and wishes that she herself could be "unsexed."

The women in this play are also sources of evil and violence, and provide for a controversial theme and idea of the play. Not only are the witches a source of this...