Lady Macbeth, in the play Macbeth written by Shakespeare, is an ambitious woman. For example, when Lady Macbeth greets Macbeth, she calls “Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor!/Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter!” (Shakespeare 1.5.61-62). She has already accepted his new title of Thane of Cawdor, and is insisting he will be king soon. Lady Macbeth has set her sights on Macbeth becoming king and nothing would dare prevent this future. Another reason, after Macbeth shows doubt in the plan to murder the king, Lady Macbeth is livid with him. She reprimands him with “If we should fail?/We fail?/ But screw your courage to the sticking place,/ and we’ll not fail” (Shakespeare 1.7.68-71). Lady Macbeth is shrieking at him, that if he steels himself
