The Tragedy of Macbeth. Or, more accurately--the tragedy of Lady Macbeth? At the beginning of this play, Lady Macbeth is introduced as a dominant, controlling, heartless wife with an obsessive ambition to achieve kingship for her husband. As the play progresses, her truly frail and susceptible personality is exposed. By presenting a seemingly stable foundation of control, she paves the way for her husband's crowning. Her quick and irrational tactics are eventually what lead to her husband's insanity, as well as her own downfall. By convincing Macbeth to kill Duncan, she sets him off on a series of power-hungry murders, where he eventually convinces himself everything he does is the right thing to do. Lady Macbeth's character slowly crumbles through an unsteady control of her husband, shifting involvement with the paranormal, and trying to maintain a forged persona of unbending strength. Her unstable, sheltered, unsure and weak condition...