At the start of Act 3, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth both exhibit a sudden shift in their personalities, which is indicated by the more dominant role of Macbeth and the more submissive role of Lady Macbeth. As shown previously in the play, Lady Macbeth is presented as manipulative and controlling over a confused and susceptible Macbeth. The roles of the two presented Lady Macbeth as the clear, dominant player over the weak-minded Macbeth. However, when Macbeth converses with the murders, he insults, teases, and threatens them into submission, introducing a side of macbeth that has not before been present. Referring to the murders “as hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, curs, shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves”, Macbeth makes the murderers out as
