During Shakespeare time women were regarded as weak and was told to only give birth and look beautiful. In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth was the complete opposite. She very much had control over her husband Macbeth. She is seen as very clever, she knows Macbeth is a very thoughtful man and shows his emotions towards her with a lot of pride. She takes control over Macbeth by using her conniving mind and planning everything out before he even agrees to it. Lady Macbeth stated, “I’ll get his two servants so drunk that their memory will be gone and we can blame everything on them (Shakespeare 45).” Macbeth has no idea about this plan at first but he agrees to it at the end. She was very determined that Macbeth was to become king no matter the cost. Macbeth
