How Does Lady Macbeth Change

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The relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth changed across the course of the entire play. There is no definitive way to say which was stronger as it would depend what your comparing the attribute of strength to and the time of comparison. Macbeth was a soldier and a war hero at the beginning of the play and Lady Macbeth was just a housewife so in terms of physical strength it could be assumed Macbeth was in the lead and stayed consistently in the lead for the remainder of the play. If comparing mental strength it could be said Lady Macbeth possessed more of this in the beginning as she convinced her husband to commit murder and was not phased by the act. Towards the end of the play and after witnessing Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking and

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