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Lady Macbeth, the Clytemnestra of English tragedy is naturally drawn as a foil to Macbeth.She
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and an iron stability of resolve. It is toLady Macbeth what
imagination is to Macbeth the feature that transcends and dominates all other in the character. It is
the secret of her influence over Macbeth and of her success in winning him to consent.

But, it proves her ruin. It makes Lady Macbeth impose upon herselfand bear, for a time,
a strain beyond the ultimate endurance of the rest of her powers. In fact, her imperious will,
like Macbeth·s excess of imaginative faculty, disturbs the proper relation of the forces of the
character.

Lady Macbeth·s character has  unlike Macbethwho turns to her for co-operation,
until his menancing sense of retribution substitutes its fatal stimulus.  too, Lady
Macbeth is superior of Macbeth just as Portia is of Bassanio and Rosalind of Orlanto. The dexterity with
which she meets Macbeth·s reluctance to go further in the work, the swiftness with which she
perceives the effect of the deed on Macbeth and the resource and alertness of brain Lady
Macbeth manifests at the banquet scene, all are but commendable.

But intellectual keenness does not compensate      Gifted with true imaginative
insight, Lady Macbethcould never have made her appaling miscalculation as to the moralresults her
crime would produce in Macbetdh and in herself.

Of she certainly manifests less than Macbeth. It has been held that even the dire
sleepwalking scene doesnot justify us with crediting her with true remorse for : ¬  
  

   

However, judging more by what we see rather than what we hear, the wrecked body and soul does
highlight some working of the conscience as a potent cause in the character of Lady Macbeth.

The three main reason of Lady Macbeth·s delirium in the sleepwalking scene can be characterised 

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Illuminating the brighter side of the character of Lady Macbeth we find in her character true devotion
to her husband.  remarks,¬     ! 
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that even after Macbeth·s breakdown in the banquet scene, Lady Macbeth utters no word of reproach
but simply remarks : ¬       Lady Macbeth·s very initial solioluqy
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Lady Macbeth·s invocation of the powers of darkness proves that she is no stranger to gentler impulses
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Thus, Shakespeare·s Lady Macbeth is a misguided and misguiding wife who for the fulfillment of her
husband·s desires prays to be nerved by unnatural access to ferocity but ultimately suffers a crash of
finer spirit due to nemesis.