How Is Lady Macbeth Honorable

From the play Macbeth, it can be seen that Macbeth is upright, brave and honorable at first, while under the instigation of Lady Macbeth, he kills King Duncan, since which he begin to turn evil and cruel. In terms of Lady Macbeth, she is vicious and greedy woman at first. It’s Lady Macbeth that acts as a pushing force to drive Macbeth to be enough cruel to pursuit his ambition. while gradually, she feels tortured by killing King Duncan and at last commits suicide to relive herself from the sufferings. The above shows that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth exchange roles as the play progresses, with Lady Macbeth moving from the position of proactive leader to that of a timid follower, and Macbeth moving in the opposite direction.
In the beginning，after a long drastic fighting and struggle, Macbeth returns with success, glory and honor. Before he kills Duncan, Macbeth is plagued by worry and almost escape from the crime.But Lady Macbeth instigation and his desire for throne push him into the deed. After the murder, however, her powerful personality begins to disintegrate, …show more content…
She shows great ambition for power. Thus she doesn’t give Macbeth any tender and sweet words to wipe out his toils when Macbeth is hesitant about whether to murder King Duncan or not: “Yet do I fear thy nature. /It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way.” Actually Lady Macbeth’s characteristics changes simultaneously with the ones of Macbeth, but in an opposite direction. Later Lady Macbeth knows nothing about the crimes in Scotland that Macbeth has committed. Tortured by the killing of Duncan, Lady Macbeth suffers a lot from sleepwalking. Later lady Macbeth rubs her hands continuously; he gentlewoman says it is an accustomed action with her, “to seem thus washing her